00:00The tears of Jason López after winning the gold medal in the past Juegos Olympics
00:05has been committed to the country.
00:06The strong man, who had raised 390 kg,
00:10was lost by hearing his mother's voice.
00:13And that moment of joy and nostalgia led to record his origin,
00:17a story that the pesista had already told to The Espectador.
00:20I am chocuano, I am from the department of Chocó,
00:24in Cali.
00:26But my life in the sport began when my mother was in the city of Cali.
00:31At that time, I had a brother, Wilmer Torres, who competed in the levantation of the pesas.
00:38She won a competition, I think it was a pan-american, and she came from the newspaper.
00:41My mother presented me to my brother via the newspaper.
00:43She said, this is your brother, levanta pesas.
00:45Then I came up with this admiration for him.
00:48At Cali I got in a condition, I was displaced by the violence,
00:51because the department of Chocó was intercepted.
00:54When I came to Cali, I started to raise pesas and I feel that my life changed drastically,
00:59because the sport has led me to experience new things, new experiences.
01:05The Olympics was only the beginning of the reinvention of Goku,
01:09the name that he put on his companions for the character of Dragon Ball Z.
01:13This year, the Chocuano achieved his first title in the world,
01:17with two records included, at the level of almost 400 kg.
01:21Lopez has been at the height of his discipline,
01:24the most laureate in the history of the Colombian sport.
01:27I have always expressed that our sport, the levantation of pesas, is the best of Colombia.
01:33It has no big publicity, a big commercialization.
01:38It is the best sport.
01:39It is the sport that most Olympic medals have given to our country.
01:43And since the Cine, we are on the podium.
01:46That is the big responsibility that recae on us, the técnicos, is not to lose that race.
01:53That is why every cycle works with a lot of organization, with a lot of discipline.
02:00The history does not stop. Jason is champion of the world and Olympic medalist,
02:04but his great anhelo is the gold medal. That is why he works.
02:09For Olympic Games 2014, I had the opportunity to go there, but there were many better people than me in
02:19that time.
02:19So, from there, I started that Olympic dream.
02:27And my friend, Andrés Mauricio Caicedo, my friend, was my friend.
02:31I took those Olympic games and took me to Olympic medals.
02:34So, that inspired me a lot.
02:35I woke up that Olympic dream and said, I can also be Olympic medals.
02:40Or I can go to Olympic medals and fulfill that dream.
02:43And from there, I started that dream of Olympic medals.
02:45And I started to work for that.
02:46Jason is passing by a moment that was where he wanted to go.
02:53His personal life has had 100% changes and he recognizes it.
02:58He is not the same Jason that when he was young.
03:00Yes, he always had his talent, but his temperament changed a lot.
03:05He says that life taught him a lot.
03:07He doesn't want to take advantage of anything around him.
03:13He is willing to listen to everything that is good for him.
03:17And that is very positive in the development of him.
03:20For me, it's nice to remember that I came from a very vulnerable place.
03:24From a very vulnerable place.
03:26From a very violent place.
03:26And that today I'm here, I'm going to be here, I'm going to be here.
03:28But on the other hand, I'm going to be sad because I know that many young people are living the
03:32same thing.
03:37For me, Jason López, in 2025, is the deportist of the year for The Espectador and Movistar.
03:57Un hombre que en medio de todos los triunfos, siempre piensa en Chocó.
04:02Su tierra añorada, el lugar al que le dedica todas sus victorias.
04:06Un hombre que en medio de todos los triunfos, siempre piensa en Chocó.
04:11El hombre que en medio de todos los triunfos, siempre piensa en Chocó.
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