The first members of the delegation that will represent Cuba in the II Junior Pan American Games They began to reach the headquarters in Asunción, Paraguaywhere from this Saturday the competitive calendar will start with the participation of young athletes of 41 nations.
The delegation is made up of 231 athletes that will compete in 28 disciplines, although there is the possibility that the figure is not finally completed, taking into account some casualties due to illness and other reasons, which have transcended in recent days, although without official confirmation.
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In statements to the sports portal Hitthe head of the Cuban Olympic Committee, Roberto León Richards, said that the island’s participation in the continental appointment acquires a special significance, because “it will allow to evaluate future members of delegations of greater rank, including some calls to attend the Olympic appointment of Los Angeles 2028”.
“The purpose is to offer the response to which our sports movement and the country’s authorities aspire,” he added without specifying a prognosis regarding the position to be occupied in the medal.
Four years ago, when the fair was organized for the first time in the Colombian town of Cali-Valle, Cuba ended in the fifth seat of the ladder by countries, thanks to a harvest of 29 titles, 19 silver and 22 bronze medals.
In the first positions were Brazil, Colombia, the United States and Mexico, in that order.
Then the executives of sport in Cuba valued as “very positive” the performance of their representatives, which they considered as a sample of the “vitality” and the “solidity of the Cuban sports system”, despite the “material deficiencies” derived from the Pandemia of CVID-19 and the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States to the Caribbean nation.
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According to Exposed criteria To the same medium by José Antonio Miranda, General Director of High Performance of the INDER, the greatest possibilities now fall on the representatives in athletics, struggles, judo, canoeing, rowing and weightlifting.
However, he acknowledged that there are potentialities to add prizes in Taekwondo competitions, nailed, fencing, table tennis, volleyball and beach volleyball.
It also transpired that in the delegation, which has an average age of 18, they only repeat eight competitors of the previous edition, including Yainely Sanz fighter, who conquered the scepter of the 57 -kilogram division, and has been designated as the female flag bearer.
The new call for young athletes in America will have as an attacked the distribution of direct tickets to the Pan American Games of Lima 2027 for all champions in disciplines included in the program.
In total, 216 quotas will be at stake for that continental multisport appointment, 16 of them for collective sports.
