Guantanamo.- Radio Guntanamo is following up the performace of Cuban athletes that make the best to step onto the winners’ podium of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. Cuba’s big attraction will be in the triple jump, where one of the gold medallists will make her Olympic debut
Spectacular Erislandy Àlvarez: wins and secures bronze in Paris
The Cienfuegos native boxer Erislandi Álvarez, of the 63.5 kilogram division, showed tremendous potential in his combat with strong combinations against his rival, the Thai Bunjong Sinsiri, whom he defeated unanimously.
Erislandy’s punch were effective to his rival’s face and I consider that the referee could well have given the Thai a protection count.
In this way, Erislandy did make it to the semi finals and in his next match, he is aiming to win the better color of medal and become an Olympic Champion for the first time. (Taken from Gerardo César Terrado’s FB profile)
Leyanis Pérez and six other Cubans at the start of athletics at the Stade de France
Seven figures of Cuban athletics, including the star triple jumper Leyanis Pérez, will perform this Friday on the new track of the Stade de France, in the second date of the king of sports at the Paris-2024 Olympic event.
Cuba’s big attraction will be in the triple jump, where one of the gold medallists will make her Olympic debut, the double world triple jump medallist Leyanis Pérez, second on the world list for the season (14.96m) and winner of three Diamond League stops (Eugene, Stockholm and Monaco).
“We have worked so that she can jump 15.20 (plus-minus 10). If she jumps 15.30, better. But her job is to concentrate on her own thing and forget about the others,” her coach, Ricardo Ponce, told Radio Habana Cuba last month.
The runner-up world track champion in Glasgow-2024 will compete in group B and will be the last to take part in the event, where there will be 31 jumpers, with the great absence of the queen of the specialty, Yulimar Rojas. The best 12 will qualify for the final.
Liadgamis (14.73 in the year) will be in Group A and should not have any difficulties in achieving this either. The mark required to be in the final (14.37m).
The first Cuban to appear on the purple track of the venue will be the sprinter Yunisleidy García, in the 100-meter heats. National record holder with 11.08 seconds in 2023, Feliciano Biliers’ pupil has not reached any notable marks this season.
Others who will make their debut in Paris will be the eight-hundred-meter runners Rose Mary Almanza and Daily Cooper.
In her fourth Olympic Games, Almanza (1.58.89 in the season) will seek a place among the top three, in a difficult qualifying series in which she will have the opposition of figures such as the French Lamote (1.57.06), the British Gill (1.58.86) and the Kenyan Vivian Chebet (1.58.26).
In another of the six heats, Cooper (22 years old and owner of a time of 1.58.61 this year) will make her Olympic debut. She will have as opponents Nayaki (Uganda) and Prudence (South Africa), both with better times.
The top three in each heat advance to the semi-finals and the rest will go to the repechage.
Discus throwers Silinda Morales (61.46 this year) and Melany Matheus (63.61) will also see action on the day.
The 12 best will advance to the final, in a test where the big favorite is Valery Allman, from the United States.
Athletics began this Thursday in Paris, but outside the stadium, with the 20 km walk events, won by the Ecuadorian Daniel Pintado and the Chinese Jiayu Yang. (Source Radio Havana Cuba)
Astro Mijaín López arrives in Paris and reaffirms that he is going for his fifth Olympic gold
Mijaín López has arrived in Paris! The legend of world wrestling arrived this Thursday at the venue of the Olympic Games with the rest of the Cuban Greco-Roman wrestling team, after completing the final part of his preparation in Bulgaria.
At 41 years old and owner of four Olympic golds and five world championships, Mijaín will seek to make history in the French competition with his fifth title under the five rings: an unprecedented feat for any athlete in the same individual event in Olympic history.
“I’m very happy to be in Paris. All the training sessions have been completed. We were anxious for this moment to arrive and there is time to adapt well, because I compete on the 5th,” said López (41 years old and 130 kg) in statements to Cuban television.
“Thank God I have NEVER had a bronze medal at home. I come with one goal, which is to obtain my fifth gold medal,” added the star with great respect, when questioned about the predictions of some international media that do NOT consider him as a possible winner of the crown.
Cuban judoka 𝗜𝗱𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘇 says goodbye to Paris 2024
The Cuban judoka was defeated by the Indian Tulika Maan in the round of 32 in the +78 kg category at the begining of her fifth participation in the summer event.
Idalys Ortiz is one of the most awarded Cuban athletes in the history of the Olympic Games.
The judoka has four medals to her name. A gold medal won in London 2012, added to the two silver medals in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, along with a bronze in Beijing 2008, gave her sufficient credentials to be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Edited by Liubis Balart
