Tomasa and Felix exchanged a mischievous look on July 25, 1976, when they sat down at their television, watching Alberto Juantorena's career at the Montreal Olympics, the young Felix, the mayor of their two children, told them already his brother Tony: "Someday I will run next to that man."

Monarch of the Pan American Games of Cali 1971, where he implanted world supremacy (17,40) that led him to be chosen the best athlete of Cuba and Latin America in that season.

Many times it is heard that "the statistics are cold" in discussions on sports issues, however it is difficult to determine this. But there is no doubt that if a name is repeated so much it is because some merit must have. This is the case when fans try to determine who has been the best receiver that has gone through the national classics.

Isel Saavedra León's has been, perhaps, the most difficult time that a Cuban high-performance athlete has had to live to integrate a first-rate national team. The ex-volleyball player from San Luis was part of the legendary women's volleyball team called Las Morenas del Caribe in the late 1980s and first half of the 1990s.