A god?
ha, ha, ha. He is not Rafael Nadal, Gasol or a soccer player.
Athletes are nobody in Spain these days. And besides, many remember what happened with Alberto Garcia and are having the same thoughts as many here in this thread, mainly because they dont want to be disapoointed again as with Alberto.
Sergio was since chidhood a rare talent. In the last 2-3 year he has finally centered and begun training seriously and continously (he has always been a bit hot-headed) and he is reaping the fruit now.
If Sergio is hardly known here in Spain, don´t expect that we or even he knows those american runners who someone mentioned earlier, Solinkski or such ones, and are jealous of them. As someonse else said if that Solinski would now show up out of the blue (for us and the world) and clock 7´32, here in Spain the reaction would be much the same as it is now in the states with Sergio, almost complete sureness of his guiltiness.
Perhaps it is much to be expected to put much trust in the athletes these days, but it hurts to see some judgmentes so ligthtly made on athetes that are you dont know anything about because they have progressed in foreign countries.