Lucas de Jesús: "We need to push the youngsters for Tokyo 2020"

University student (although candidate to firefighter if his diopters don't get increase), Lucas de Jesús is one of the young spanish crushers that send 9a's. After a successful summer in Rodellar, he answers some questions about his workday routine to send his first 9a. (C) Guillermo Domínguez Looks like 2017 is your year, isn't it? I think that 2017 is the most I have ever climbed. I moved to study in Huesca last September and since February I have been climbing 4-5 days per week. I almost stop with the gym just to be focused outdoors and climb everywhere. During the summer I've been working in Rodellar and I could climb everytime I wasn't working. Did you clearly think to climb a 9a when you started climbing of was it just 'accidental'? I couldn't believe it. Two years ago I was still talking with my friends about 9a's as something out of our range. It was something big and I never had the courage to try once. This suited me and it was just be stubborn and persistent. What about Olympics, do you fancy? I love the idea about the climbing scene into the Olympics because it will bring many advantages to this sport, but the format is a mistake because in Speed there will be not seen anybody climbing that 15m wall in 6 seconds, and the same in Boulder and Lead. Can you imagine a non-disciplines athletic championships where a guy like Usain Bolt is out of the final cause he wasn't good in marathon? Maybe is excessive, but in many ways is the same. And of course that I would like to go, but I think that I will watch it on TV.. I'm realistic and I know it will not happen because in Spain there are a lot of climbers with a level above mine and in addition they're focused on it. We need to push the youngsters for Tokyo 2020."