world champion, pianist and singer, Lex Gillette challenges taboo in Brazil

American has three medals of silver and Paralympic want the first gold in Brazil, where he was also second in the 2007 Pan.

Gillette is a pianist and has already composed the soundtrack if you can your first gold medal in September (Photo: Rio 2016 / Alex Ferro)

Talent with their feet, hands and voice, combined with a lot of sympathy and fighting a taboo. This is Elexis Gillette, or Lex Gillette, as it is known the US, which also makes beautiful as a pianist and singer. Paralympic athletics, he is world champion in the long jump class F11 (visually impaired) and current world record holder of the race, with the mark of 6.73 meters. In Rio 2016 Games, Gillette tries to end a run of three silvers followed Paralympic in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. "I need a little more focus and concentration to put in competition everything I learned and trained. The environment is different, but the training and what I do are the same, "he says, which hopes to use the experience in Special Olympics to finally get to the top of the podium. The jumper, whose motto is" no need to view when you have a vision ", he became blind at the age of 10 because of a problem in the retina. When still had partial vision, he learned to play the piano, and later went on to compose and sing. He says that even has a ready soundtrack case win the dreamed gold, but it is saved for after the competition. In Rio de Janeiro for the International Open Cash Sweepstakes, test event of the Games, it exudes warmth. "It's my second time here in Rio," said the American, who won the silver medal at the Para-Pan American Games Rio 2007. "At that time I had no opportunity to meet much of the country, but hopefully after competing here in September can experience things like the culture, the food and do a little sightseeing, "plans.

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