Louise Gega writes history in athletics

“An athlete has to run with dreams in his heart, not with the money in his pocket”, has been a famous expression by Czech runner Emil Zatopek and in Albanian athletics has a name that has always run with big dreams, Louise Gega.

Alone, the 30-year-old has kept track in Albania alive by breaking not only successive records, but simultaneously making Albanian athletics important in recent years, along with Izmir Smajlaj, enough in her last race in Rovereto, managed to triumph in 3 thousand feet of obstructions, something rare for a European, and it was a pleasure to hear Raj Sport's commentator identify something like that.

A few weeks ago, in Skopje, Louise recorded another achievement, providing 9 minutes and 25 seconds and 79 percent of the qualifications for the Tokyo Olympics -- something extraordinary and uninsult for an Albanian athlete.

The recent decade in the athletic sport, especially after the 1990s in Albania, has been identified mainly by its name, as paradoxically it seems, that a small country like Albania competes in deep distance racing with the great names of this sport, coming from Kenya, Ethiopia, or various African countries, having support, conditions, and tradition.

The successes of Louise Gega, recently in Skopje, but and Rowreto are not only a triumph of her own, but also the victory of athletics and the dream run of the heart, which identified Emil Zatopek, even though said in the mid-50s it is a bit out of fashion, only in the latter part of it, since in modern athletics after you've realized your dreams and the money in your pocket. /Periscope. com/