Account Martin Fiz that the day he was told that someone had stolen the record of Spain marathon "I was angry , " but he was glad to learn that the was "my friend Alejandro Gomez". Alejandro Gómez (Vigo, 1967) is part of one of the best generations of athletes in the history of Spanish sport. He was champion of Spain in cross, 10,000 and half marathon. In cross, team bronze in the 89 World Cup and silver in the 95 European Championship. Second in the Rotterdam marathon in 97, with a record of Spain, 7th in Seoul '97 and Boston '98, 5th in the 98 European Championship. and 6th in the 2002 European Championship.

Now, at 53 , his life is slowly fading.

On the 8th, just nine days ago , Alejandro felt "unstable" and ended up in the emergency room , where after being subjected to various tests, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor . A circumstance at least surprising, because last February he had suffered a car accident that caused him to have a cervical problem for which he had to pass various tests. "The last one had been 20 days ago and nothing had appeared ," explains his psychologist, Delfina Vicente, to EL MUNDO, as he remembers the phrase that Alejandro repeats these days, with an emotional fortitude: "That they remember me as the good person that I was. "

The disease progresses rapidly and keeps Alejandro in the hospital, from which he hopes to leave this Thursday to spend the weekend at home . From there "every minute is gold" , recognizes Vicente, who avoids talking about a concrete life expectancy. " The doctors say they have never seen such a case. Something so abrupt. The disease has come a long way and we want every minute to be of quality, instead of looking for other types of alternatives," he acknowledges, and assures that all decisions are Alejandro's own decision, aware of everything that is happening and of all the messages and acknowledgments he has been receiving since his news was published in the Vigo Lighthouse.

" He is aware of that loss and is making the decisions. It is important to be able to make the decisions about the last moments of your life. The objective is to preserve the quality of life," says Vicente. In recent days, Álvaro Cunqueiro's hospital has come and called friends and colleagues of Gómez, not only from the world of sports. "May he enjoy all the tributes, his friends, may he say goodbye to the people he loves. Let every minute be love, not mourning." And among those tributes, Celta, 'his' Celta , who this afternoon has a match in Valladolid. "He is a celtician to the core, we will be seeing him there."

"He developed like a fish in the water in the great championships"

Martín Fiz acknowledges that he fell apart when on Saturday, days before the news of Alejandro Gómez was made public, his wife explained the situation in which the former athlete found himself. " I have been at his house, he at mine ... We have prepared many championships together . I spoke what I could and tried to motivate him ... but I could not stand it and I fell apart. They have spent many years together," he explains to EL MUNDO from the Basque Country, where it has tried, so far without success, to find a Bilbao-Vigo flight .

Fiz still remembers the races next to Gómez and the anecdotes that were kept after the concentrations and the championships. "He developed like a fish in the water in the great championships. I remember that he always carried a blanket from his grandmother in which he tucked himself in, in which we ended up wrapping all of us," he says excitedly. " At that time we used to protect African athletes . Alejandro deserves to say goodbye in style, not at home."

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