Leonel did not believe in injuries

There are athletes who are happy to see them face each other. Regardless of whether they are favorites or not, they are half-engineered or oiled up to retail.

It's just a pleasure to see how they are doing, how they give everything for the discipline they like, and how to win and lose with shame. 19659003] This is the case of the Cuban decathlete Leonel Suárez. Sometimes I was dissatisfied with their results, but never with their sacrifice, with their desire to triumph, and to see that there are some who adorn their shop windows.

But the only Cuban decathlete who has Olympic and world medals has been white of injuries, especially in recent years. The blood pressure problems caused the alarms when they were in their greatest splendor, and in the last campaigns were added mishaps of all kinds, which prevented him from completing his training as he was.

Leonel runs, jumps and throws as if nothing. The most recent test has just been given in the Centrocaribes de Barranquilla

In theory, it is a competition well below its level, but the training deficit makes that one of the most important things. it is doubtful that he could reach eight thousand points, a mark of who has laughed on many occasions and has been accustomed to seeing him overcome in his successful career.

If we add to that that a Colombian talent put the most difficult things with significant records in some modalities, things did not look good for him. Holguin, in the absence of a single test: the 1500 meters

I had to take about six seconds of the host, which means at 50 meters one of the most important. other at the time of entering the finish line, but it is not stopped the Cuban, who went out to eat the track.

Removing the supplement that only the athletes of the show tell, Leonel literally exploded his main opponent and prevented him from even entering the field first. final race, with a difference between the two almost half track (400 meters), a lot.

It was worth staying in front of the TV to see this result, then topped with a few words that further improve the quality of this athlete, author of one of the great feats of these Games.