Cuban athletics continues adding defeats. To the sporting failure in the XVIII World Championship of Athletics that was celebrated in Eugene, United States, where the Cuban delegation did not obtain any medal, the escape of the Olympic medalist and world discus champion, Yaimé Pérez, is added. as published Play-Off Magazine.
The woman from Santiago, who got a seventh place in the World Cup in Eugene, made this decision in recent hours, the same medium said. With her there are three members of the Cuban team who distanced themselves from the regime, before they did Javelin thrower Yiselena Ballar and this Tuesday so did the physiotherapist Carlos González Morales.
“He is the 19th athlete to leave international events in 2022. Pérez, 31, won two Diamond Leagues,” He pointed out on his social networks the journalist Francys Romero: “The official press has blamed the cancellation of the Cuba-MLB agreement for the exodus of baseball players. But these exits in more than five sports prove that the exodus is first for survival than for sporting future.”
The woman from Santiago, who got a seventh place in the Eugene World Cup, made this decision in recent hours, said Play-Off Magazine
Yaimé Pérez is number three in the ranking world in the test, according to the portal Olympics. Her personal best is 69.39 meters and she got it in France (2019). In Tokyo 2020, his third Olympic Games, she reached third place.
His ability has also been demonstrated by winning the Ostrava Continental Cup (2018) and the U20 World Cup (2010). He also won a silver medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto (2015) and four years later he won the gold medal in Lima (2019).
Last Friday Mario Planchet, Christian Temprano and Leonardo Acevedo, members of the U20 Futsal team did not show up for the semifinal match between Cuba and Nicaragua, of the Uncaf FIFA Forward tournament, which is being held in Guatemala.
The delegation reported the escape to the Guatemalan authorities to prevent Cuban soccer players from leaving the country, public Free Press.
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