The paths of life are not as I thought, as I imagined, they are not as I believed … Pray the song composed of the Colombian Omar Gels that became an international success and a fairly successful analogy of existence. It is likely that the song would not sound in the Horst-Korber-Sportzentrum in Berlin on that day of 2020 in which 135 of 21 countries are about to jump into a space formed by 30 ping-pong tables. Many of them carry t -shirts with large brands sponsorship. They also have the support of dozens of followers. There is a single Spanish. He goes with the shirt of his club in Talavera de la Reina, who has advertising of Iberian cathedrits (tapas & ham) and his fans is formed by his wife and daughter … and a Swedish man named Conny, whom he has just rescued from a fall in the bathroom.
The Spanish athlete is called Javier Pérez de Albéniz. He has worked as a journalist for the main media of his country. In his newspaper library there are experiences such as the shared day with Edmund Hillary on the way to Everest, having been lying in a bed with Neil Young, kicking the Virunga volcanoes in search of a family of gorillas or following the traces of John Hanning Speke in search of the Nile sources. The paths of life took him, years later, to play in Berlin the World Cup. Parkinson
Pérez de Albéniz was diagnosed with the disease in 2015. Following the advice of doctors, he sought a sport that helped him in a day-to-day basis-medication complement and a healthy diet-and met the Ping-Pong. In setbacks (KO books), Hilvana the history of the most recent years, in which table tennis and tennis have become part of their life.
An elegant, honest, simple and fun story -a fine humor runs through its pages -that has nothing to do with a self -help book and much of the management of such a drastic change in the life of a person -as that morning in which, a day after the diagnosis, they notice how the environment is loaded with an emotional black cloud and immediately realize that they must open the windows -or the passion with which it is given to their new specialty. The pleasant feeling of feeling the blade one more extension of its body. A full moment that fleeting the disease.
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