Records don’t last forever. The Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna proved that. At the weekend he picked up the discus and hurled it into the sky. A throw of the century. Nevertheless, the disk fell back to earth after 74.35 meters. World record. Look.
Who wouldn’t look at that a few months before the Summer Olympics and expect a longer trajectory for the performance in Paris? Especially since the throwing of the discus, ever since the ore foundry Myron created his discobolos, is reminiscent of the connection to ancient Greece, the birthplace of the games.
The Germans probably didn’t always have pure movement culture in mind when they became discus champions and then lost their expertise again. What remains here and there is the pride that the new record has “replaced” the 38-year-old one set by Jürgen Schult from Schwerin: 74.08 meters, the oldest men’s world record in athletics to date.
Could this have something to do with the fact that Schult, the last Olympic champion in the GDR, was included in the secret state doping plan 14.25 in the 1980s? Although documented, there was nothing about this in the new record stories. But we are now sure that the Earth is not flat.
