The double Cuban judo champion at the Paralympic Games in London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016, Dalidaivis Rodríguez, left the national team that attended the Ibsa Pan American Judo Tournament in Edmonton 2022, in Canada. As is usual in any escape, the regime singled out the athlete for “breaking the commitment made with her country,” published by the official media Hit.
Rodriguez defected prior to what would be “his last opportunity to obtain the medical-functional qualification,” as confirmed by the same outlet, which announced that all the Cubans participating in the event, which took place between December 7 and 12, had gone up to the podium, which favored the Cuban team for a better location for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Rodríguez, 39, was included last week by the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) among the Top 10 Parathletes of 2022. The decision was based on the gold medal he won in the 70 kilograms category at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix (Brazil). a triumph after returning from a long absence of six years.
The athlete also has the gold medals in the Guadalajara 2011 and Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games, as well as the silver and bronze medals won in the Orb Cup, in Colorado 2014 and the world championship in Antalia, Turkey, in 2010, respectively. .
Rodríguez, 39, was included last week by Inder among the 10 most outstanding parathletes of 2022
The escape of Dalidaivis Rodríguez occurs four days after the escape of Yarelis Barrios, also an Olympic medalist in discus throwing, already retired from active sport. The silver medalist in Beijing 2008 told CyberCuba who felt left out after yipsi moreno will leave the position of Athletics Commissioner in July of this year in the midst of the crisis of sports on the Island.
The new commissioner Rolando Charró Estrada returned to old acquaintances, technicians and athletes who had distanced themselves, and excluded her from the sports part despite letting him know that “she was willing to put her feet on the ground.” That was what led her, along with her husband, the coach Adrián Ramírez, and her little daughter, to abandon the Island by way of Santo Domingo and then fly to Nicaragua until they reached the United States.
The Cuban medalist along with her family crossed the border into the US on December 7 in the early hours of the morning. “It was 5:00 am, or something like that”, as posted on Facebook the user Siro Cuartel. “That day, according to my source, 1,300 Cubans crossed through Piedras Negras, out of a total of 2,000.”
The exodus of Olympic champions is already alarming. The double world wrestling champion, Reineris Andreuleft the Cuban national team after participating in an event held in the Dominican Republic, confirmed this Thursday the official media Hit. The athlete’s escape is the sixth in this sport so far this year and was evidenced, as usually happens by the ruling party, as “indiscipline.”
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