The greatest gladiator in the history of Olympism, our great champion Mijaín López Núñez, will attend the Pan American Games, Santiago 2023, as a guest, so he will not fight for his sixth crown in these events.
The history of the “Horseshoe giant” is also impressive in these continental competitions, as his chain of titles began in Santo Domingo 2003 and extended until Lima 2019. The four-time Olympic champion this time will not carry the lone star flag on the opening ceremony, as has been traditional since the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, held in 2006.
It is a great nostalgia, since I have always carried that flag, I think there is no better choice than Idalys Ortiz and Julio César La Cruz, both are Olympic and world champions and have always been worthy representatives of our sports movement.
Mijáin will not go up to the mattress, but he will be accompanying the Cuban delegation in Santiago, Chile. “It is an opportunity that every athlete would like to have, I am happy to be able to be a spectator and be able to support these young athletes.”
Mijaín López continues with his sights set on Paris 2024, an event in which he will seek his fifth gold medal in the Olympic Games. Now, in addition to his historical rival, the Turkish Riza Kayaalp, the Iranian Amin Mirzazadeh, current world champion in the 130 kg, appeared. “The fighter from Iran, I have always told the coaches that he is on the rise, he is an athlete who has improved a lot. “I have been studying him, I already faced him in the Tokyo Games and he knows who Mijaín is.”.
