Galician marathon runner Tariku Novales Live glory days after beating Sunday Spain’s record marathon. This in itself is a remarkable feat, but it becomes extraordinary to achieve it despite having failed the rabbits and despite being only 24 years old, a very precocious age for gran fondo. He sees a glorious future ahead of him in the most iconic of athletic disciplines.

With success comes greater public visibility, and behind this comes the mafia that populates social networks. Because Tariku Novales was born in Ethiopia and is black, comments are not missed They doubt their Spanishness and those who joke about skin color.

The Noia athlete shared some of the xenophobic messages he received on his X account (formerly Twitter), as well as another group of comments showing support. And he accompanied them with sharp and powerful text. “Spain is NOT a country racist. There is a lot of racism in Spain. “What’s different?”.

This isn’t the first time an athlete has been affected by a controversy surrounding racism. Ana Peleteiro, It’s still up to date these days an ironic comment on the subjectcame out to defend colleague Ray Zapata and the Galician in 2021 Belén Toimil did the same When Mo Katir is the target of xenophobia.