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"I am champion of life."The ability to overcome, illusion, win them to face challenges and walk forward from David Casinos (Valencia, 02/15/1972) are capital letters.This has led him to be one of the great referents of Spanish Paralympic sport.But as in the vast majority of cases among these athletes, there is always a hard story behind.From a very young age he took great care of being diabetic, but a retinopathy was detected that made him lose any trace of light in 1998. He is a total blind (B1).His life - then worked on an important multinational - started again.«I had to learn my life from scratch.The eleven gave me all the options to get ahead and helped me a lot.From there I was me, I had to learn to live my life from blindness and all that was left behind.Now I live the present, I am happy with what I have, with what I am, I accept my situation and I think I have many possibilities.I have an exceptional quality of life, and, as I always say, it is not necessary to see to see;It can be seen in different ways ».With that philosophy today he has three consecutive golds in Sydney, Athens and Beijing - he also has, among many other titles, the record of the world launching world.
The Valencian trusts that he will be present at the next event in London 2012. It will be his fourth Paralympic Games."I have the illusion back to return to other games, to live them in a special way, with my wife Celia, who is my guide too, and to overcome myself," Casinos explains before starting one of his training in the complexDeportivo de la Petxina next to its ximena bitch.
On the horizon the capital of England, where the athlete of the "Valencia Terra I Mar" will be the man to beat in weight launch, although he acknowledges that he wants to improve on disk."It choks me a little in the Paralympics," he says.He prepares with the intention of surpassing with Celia, Ximena and his coach Gabriela Wolk, an old laureate pitcher of the RDA, and looking for the medals in London.«The bar is very high, very high, and honestly, not being in an honor position such as being on a podium, it would be a catastrophe.For me it would be a great defeat.I just hope and I wish I hope my dream can be fulfilled again to get some medal.I don't say it's gold, but dream of a medal.The truth is that I don't like talking about medals or successes.I know what I'm going to do, but I don't know what others will do, ”explains David while running through the Ximena facilities.
Manolo Martínez or Mario Pestano are his referents.Praise what the Leon has done for and for Spanish sport.«Manolo is an icon within Spanish athletics, captain of the Spanish team, world champion on covered track ... It is a tremendous achievement to get what he has achieved.For me it is a reference, as Mario Pestano is also, and in turn I think that I am too ».
Casinos Enjoy the Adop Plan.He trains every day in days that start at eight in the morning, rest at noon and return to the track until six in the afternoon.In his free time, this referent for national sport, takes English classes, enjoys the good hundred, try to read books and articles and forms for tomorrow.At the moment, think of gold.
