The judokas Vanesa Godinez (48 kg), Mellisa Hurtado (52 kg), Santa Virgen Romero (78 kg), Blanca Elena Torres (52 kg) and Lutmary García (63 kg) left the Cuban team during their concentration in France. “There are 20 athletes”, between January and March of this year, those who have taken advantage of some international outing to escape and seek “a better life”, pointed out in his social networks the journalist Francys Romero.
The first to leave the team were Vanesa Godinez, who last year won the silver medal at the European Judo Open in Australia, and Mellisa Hurtado, who won the gold medal in the 52 kg category after defeating the Swiss Fabienne Kocher in the same event.
While Santa Virgen Romero, who came from important achievements in his beginnings in this discipline and won the National Championship in Cárdenas (Cuba) in 2019, left the concentration in the first quarter of this year.
The escape of athletes continues to hit Cuban sports, which have not offered their position on the dropouts of the members of the Cuban field hockey team
Lutmary García, who just last January won a bronze medal in the L’Aisne tournament, held in France, fled on March 11 along with Blanca Elena Torres. This group of judokas joins the more than 81 Cuban athletes who have defected of their teams between 2022 and 2023.
The flight of athletes continues to hit Cuban sports, which have not offered their position on the withdrawals of the members of the Cuban field hockey team Yadira Miclín Galbán, Marianela López and Daylin Suárez Pérez. The young women reported that the Inder had them “starving and cooking with firewood”in addition to emphasizing that they were paid a pittance and therefore decided to stay in Spain.
They have not offered any comment on the escape of the hockey players either. Lázaro Tolón, Yuri Brown and Yordanqui Méndezwho took advantage of their stay in Chile to separate from the national team.
The chain of leaks occurs when the Island is facing a serious economic crisis, manifested in the lack of fuel, continuous blackouts and food shortages. Before those six hockey players, the rowers escaped in the last week of April. Maykol Julio Álvarez, Yoelvis Javier Hernández and Osvaldo Pérez.
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