MIAMI, United States. — Cuban discus thrower Yaimé Pérez left the Cuban delegation that was in the United States after participating in the World Athletics Championships, which was held in the city of Eugene, Oregon.
The news was confirmed to Play Off Magazine by sources close to the athlete, who reached seventh place in the World Cup.
Pérez, 31, became the third representative of the Cuban delegation to leave in the north, before the javelin thrower Yiselena Ballar and the physiotherapist Carlos González Morales.
A source confirmed to journalist Francys Romero that Pérez was already in the city of Miami.
According to the reporter, Yaimé Pérez became the twenty-second athlete to leave a delegation from the Island in international events so far in years.
“The official press has blamed the cancellation of the Cuba-MLB agreement for the exodus of baseball players. But these outings in more than five sports prove that the exodus is first for survival than for a sporting future,” Romero said in social networksyes
Also known as “The Russian”, Yaimé Pérez was one of the greatest exponents of Cuban athletics, with important results over the last decade, among which the world title in Doha 2019 and the Olympic bronze in Tokyo 2020 stand out.
Play Off Magazine assured that the Cuban delegation had divided into three groups to return to the island. The first of them is already in Cuba, while the other two remain in northern lands, so the abandonment of more athletes in the island is not ruled out. the next few hours.
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