{"id":6497,"date":"2024-02-01T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:09:28","slug":"russian-kitesurfers-set-a-guinness-record-in-baracoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/russian-kitesurfers-set-a-guinness-record-in-baracoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Kitesurfers Set a Guinness Record in Baracoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kitesurfistas1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kitesurfistas1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kitesurfistas1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Russian kitesurfers arrived this Tuesday at Caribe Beach, in Baracoa, as the final stage to set a new Guinness Record for the practice of this sport on a journey between the Bahamas Islands and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The record was set in 6 and half hours, at a speed of 60 miles per hour, and safety for the journey was provided by\u00a0 an escort boat equipped with professional support and technical staff.<\/p>\n<p>At the reception site, a simple sports-cultural activity took place with the presence of tourism executives in the Guantanamo Province and the sports sector in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Kitesurfing harnesses the power of the wind through a large parachute type kite to propel a rider across the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/kitesurfistas2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kitesurfing class has recently been included among the sailing modalities and will make its debut in the Olympic program in Paris 2024, another incentive for its practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Liubis Balart Martinez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian kitesurfers arrived this Tuesday at Caribe Beach, in Baracoa, as the final stage to set a new Guinness Record for the practice of this sport on a journey between the Bahamas Islands and Cuba. The record was set in 6 and half hours, at a speed of 60 miles per hour, and safety for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,8],"tags":[134,1498,1497],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo","category-internacionales","category-sports","tag-baracoa","tag-guinness-record","tag-russian-kitesurfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}