MADRID, Spain.- Cuban judoka Dalisdaivis Rodríguez, two-time Paralympic champion, left the delegation with which she traveled to the city of Edmonton, Canada, to compete in the Pan American Tournament of the International Federation of Sports for the Blind (Ibsa, for its acronym in English). ).
“The athlete Dalisdaivis Rodríguez, who would face her last opportunity to obtain the medical-functional qualification, left the delegation, breaching the commitment made with her country and team,” said the official sports media. HIT in a note where he highlighted that all the members of the team managed to get on the podium.
At the London 2012 Paralympic Games and at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games, Rodríguez won the gold medal in the less than 63 kilograms division.
Dalisdaivis Rodríguez, 39 years old, was considered among the best Cuban athletes in her current 70-kilogram division of the J2 medical-functional classification (serious visual impairment).
In July of this year, at least three members of the Cuban delegation that attended the Mexican Para-athletics Open in Monterrey abandoned the selection of the Island, before the event began.
On that occasion, the names of sprinters Christian Carlos Guillén (T-47) and Elvis Nules (400 meters) and jumper Lázaro Yarlo Rodríguez came out.
Among the most recent cases of exodus of Cuban athletes are the Olympic medalist Yarelis Barrios, who arrived in the United States in recent days after making the usual Central American migratory journey. As well as the rowers Boris Luis Guerra, Ernier Tamayo, Alexei Carballosa and Nayala Torres who left the national delegation that they were at a training base in Mexico, preparing for the Central American and Caribbean Championship.
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