Jorge Almanza and Carmen Blanco have not had the pleasure of cooking for their daughter for six months and enjoying the after-dinner together at home. Since last December, when the national athletics preselection met to train, the stellar runner Rose Mary Almanza has not sat at the foot of the sidewalk of Pobre Street, in this city, to watch the people go by and laugh with the neighbors.

Where does a 20-year-old athlete get the strength to get up after several ankle sprains, plantar fasciitis, inflammations in the patellar tendon of one of her knees, three ligament ruptures in her right leg and a COVID-19 infection? Anyone would have resigned, but Davisleydi Velazco "the bomb" that was "implanted" in her chest keeps her jumping in the world elite of a test in which the extraordinary Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas reigns.