"Women do better in sports, because the progression is better". It's that clear. For Jaume Nualart, this conclusion is clear after carrying out a study on the evolution of world records in athletics. "If we look at the progression, in most disciplines women have lowered their records more than men. Sometimes even twice as much", analyses Nualart, PhD, researcher and teacher. Despite entering the Olympic world much later, women have managed to improve their records dramatically. They have practically cut twice as many seconds off the stopwatch in half the time. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where athletics has just begun, the marks are trembling before the great athletes, both men and women, who have their sights set on setting a new milestone.

Tokyo 2020, to be held in 2021, will have been the most atypical and complicated Summer Olympics of the modern era. Until the last moment it was not clear whether they would be held. And until they are over we will not be able to claim victory on whether they have really beaten the covid. Because there is no hiding the fact that the danger of contagion is high. Athletes are used to fighting against their limits and against their rivals, but how do you compete against a virus? Well, they are doing it. The main way to compete against the coronavirus is to get vaccinated and to take extreme precautions. The challenge for young athletes from all over the world this time is twofold: they have to demonstrate their skills in each of their sports and they have to be an example, before the world, of prudence and sanitary rigour in order to avoid contagion.