Cuba with 39 athletes categorised for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games – 2024-06-02 08:36:34

Guatemala Metropolis/Prensa Latina

The athletes categorised by Cuba for the close by Paris Olympic Video games rose from 36 to 39, in 11 sports activities, confirmed on Friday the director of Excessive Efficiency at Inder, José Antonio Miranda.

Jorge Moisés Campos not too long ago entered, in desk tennis; Rose Mary Almanza, in athletics; and Erislandy Álvarez, in boxing, the official defined to the Prensa Latina company, on a working go to to Guatemala.

We nonetheless have round 50 within the classification course of, however with actual prospects within the order of 39, Miranda mentioned, who included athletics, boxing, diving, judo, males’s volleyball and seaside volleyball.

Within the case of the game of fists, he added, three males and one lady traveled to their final match primarily based on quotas, of which – he identified – we noticed the fighters with an opportunity to be included within the occasion below the 5 rings.

From diving there’s a risk that two of our athletes will get their ticket, remarked the director of Excessive Efficiency of the Nationwide Establishment of Sports activities, Bodily Training and Recreation (Inder), of the biggest Caribbean island.

We’re left with judo, during which there are additionally prospects for brand spanking new additions within the struggle from July 26 to August 11, three in every intercourse, or two within the feminine and three within the male, he acknowledged.

The seaside volleyball couple of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo seems within the course of, virtually categorised, since they’ve the quota for the Olympic and continental rankings.

He ratified Inder’s aim of bringing between 70 and 80 athletes to the occasion within the French metropolis, along with a collective sport (males’s volleyball), whose members are nicely targeted, he highlighted.

One other aim – Miranda mentioned – is to be among the many 20 powers within the Olympic Video games, “conscious that to realize this, a minimum of 5 titles have to be obtained.”

He emphasised 19 athletes with the load of the potential ends in Paris, which – he clarified – doesn’t imply that there are 19 medals, however relatively those that obtain customized consideration with their compliance with the crucial path. The director additionally defined that Inder works along with the Paralympic Video games, from the perspective of preparation and monitoring.

On this case – he burdened – 11 Cubans have their ticket and there’s a group within the classification course of, to kind a delegation between 28 and 32 athletes.

They’re additionally engaged on attaining a minimum of 5 gold medals within the Paralympic Video games to be among the many prime 25 on the earth, he instructed this company.

He emphasised that the Antillean sports activities group has been in a position to make sure, regardless of the complicated situation, the aggressive routes and there’s a political will to ensure it.

The overwhelming majority of these categorised and people nonetheless lacking – Miranda specified – have deliberate the final stage of their preparation in Europe, primarily in France.

Within the final Tokyo 2020 Olympic occasion, Cuba received seven golds, three silvers and 5 bronzes, and stood out in sixteenth place within the common desk by nation.