Joaquín Carmona, from being the best athletics tweeter to sleeping on the street

We echo this news of I practice sport where they reveal what has happened to one of the most famous athletics fans and tweeter of this sport, Joaquin carmona

Joaquín Carmona's name is well known among fans of Spanish athletics.

This is not an athletics star, or a great technician, but is the signatory of one of the most recognized Twitter accounts in this sport, and whom many have missed since the covid-19 pandemic began.

In these three months,  your account, full of data and wisdom about the world of athletics, stopped sending tweets, something that was gradually sowing pessimism in many of his followers, fearing that the virus had killed this great athletic expert.

Concern

So many were the voices that showed their concern, that this fear reached the newspaper Sports, where his journalist Alfredo Varona wrote about his disappearance, with testimonies from other experts in this sport, who confessed that the only reference they had about Carmona was his account On twitter.

No one knew anything about him, many had sent him direct messages, but all without response.

All a mystery that Alfredo Varona himself  resolved in his diary, one day later. Joaquín Carmona is a person who lives on the street in Madrid with just enough, it connects to keep your account on social networks alive thanks to the wifi of the libraries.

The declaration of the state of alarm, with the closure of libraries, restaurants, bars, etc., prevented Carmona from keeping his account alive, continuing to clarify doubts and give his data and opinions, always praised by the great experts.

In fact, as he told Varona, his last tweet was made from the Atocha station, when the police were asking him to leave as the station closed.

https://twitter.com/Jokin4318/status/1239303949729050625

Great help

Gerardo Cebrián, another of the Spanish athletics gurus, acknowledged in the Sports newspaper that Carmona's wisdom has helped him in his comments by making a mistake with the data and that he had sent him many messages, without response. He was one of those who feared the worst.

Now thanks to Alfredo Varona we know the other reality of Joaquín Carmona, an unimaginable reality, but one that Spanish athletics is already conspiring to change.

Helping him find a job or raising money to get him off the street are two of the ideas his followers are already debating.

And it is that Spanish athletics needs the wisdom and clairvoyance of a lover of this sport such as Joaquín Carmona.