The family of Cuban wrestler Cristian Solenzal, who last May defected in Acapulco, Mexico, is suffering reprisals. While his arrival in Lexington, Kentucky (USA) was confirmed this Monday, SwingFull revealed that the athlete’s brother, Damián “will be limited from traveling with the Cuba team to international events.”
The decision, the publication says, was made “arbitrarily.” The sanction was finalized after Cristian, who was one of the strong cards to get his ticket to the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile 2023, escaped before his commitment against the Peruvian Sixto Miguel Auccapina during the Pan American Wrestling Championship that took place in Mexico.
Damián is one of the most outstanding athletes from Sancti Spíritus, where he is from. In 2019 he conquered the Junior Pan American Championship, in Guatemala. In that same year she won the silver medal at the Pan American Championship held in Argentina.
Damián’s case occurs in a week agitated by leaks
Cuban sports are plagued with similar cases, published SwingFull and he recalled that the authorities erase “from one day to the next the laurels for which they were once pondered”, referring to the athletes who have undergone the same punishment.
Damián’s case occurs in a week agitated by leaks. This Saturday details were offered about the capture of the players Alfredo Fadraga and Yosvani Ávalos, who had left the concentration of the U-23 team that participated in the Pan American Championship in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes.
The Mexican police arrested as if they were criminals to the boys who were returned to the Island before the tournament ended. The disciplinary measure has not yet been announced.
This Sunday the escape of the Olympic boxing champion was confirmed Andy Cruz. The boxer is in the Dominican Republic, which shook the Cuban government.
Since Cristian’s escape, sources confirmed to 14ymedio that the man from Sancti Spiritus had in mind to continue his career in the United States. Solenzal is part of the group of five Cubans who left the wrestling team in Mexico. The others were the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic champion and two-time world champion Ismael Borrero, Leonardo Herrera, Amanda Hernandez and Yolanda Cordero.
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