{"id":205485,"date":"2019-09-06T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=205485"},"modified":"2019-09-06T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T21:11:57","slug":"mijain-lopez-my-strategy-is-to-train-like-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/mijain-lopez-my-strategy-is-to-train-like-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Mija\u00edn L\u00f3pez: “My strategy is to train like hell”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The kids think I\u2019m like a dad, that\u2019s why I have to come to teach them a little,” says Mija\u00edn L\u00f3pez, half-jokingly, half-seriously, when he\u2019s been training only for a few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a smile on his face, but drenched in sweat after showing only a sample of his exceptional Greco, this athlete from Pinar del R\u00edo puts order in the Cerro Pelado, headquarters of Cuban wrestling in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mija\u00edn arrives mid-morning at the gym. He enters silently, although his presence is immediately noted, perhaps because of the magnetism that surrounds this century\u2019s best wrestler in the world, and one of the historical leaders of this sport.<\/span><\/p>\n

He wears a dark blue tight suit with the flag at chest level, gray pants made of thick fabric and a pair of flip flops. In his hands he has his work shoes, which he puts on in a matter of two minutes to get on the mattress and start sweating.<\/span><\/p>\n

The action begins against Oscar Pino, after some stretching and a brief warm-up. Mija\u00edn puts pressure on him, shakes him, corrects the positions of his hands, head and legs while wrestling in the center of the circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been coming every day to help him minimize his mistakes and add something that he\u2019s missing. We have to help each other,” says the athlete, who knows everything that\u2019s at stake with his 25-year-old disciple.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oscar Pino: dualidad de poderes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n