Nassau.- THE QUARTETS Today, Cuban athletes will retain the lineups presented in the preliminary phase of the Bahamas 2024 World Athletics Relay Championships, based in this city, where today more Olympic places will be distributed in all modalities.
After analyzing what happened this Saturday on the track of the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, and the exchange with athletes, the strategists also decided to maintain the order assigned to each section, with the aim of achieving the coveted qualifications for the Olympic Games. Paris 2024 that are still available.
“The plans were made from the beginning looking for the best results and after listening to the boys’ opinions we confirmed that repeating will be the best option,” commented national commissioner Rolando Charroo.
«Mistakes were made and it is clear that this prevented us from achieving the objective of achieving at least one qualification in the playoffs. However, as we say, now it’s a clean slate. “They will go out and do their best to return with the tickets,” the manager insisted.
Regarding the women’s 4×400 meters event, coach Rolando Molina announced that he expects better performances from his pupils in all segments. In his opinion, to secure one of the two spots in the repechage series they will have to shave at least two seconds off the time of 3:31.56 minutes they set on Saturday.
The young Melissa Padrón will once again take the lead in a formation that will be completed by Rose Mary Almanza, Lisneidy Veitía and Roxana Gómez. It was demonstrated that the pace of the latter can be decisive if her companions meet the parameters required of them for the race.
“Roxana will go out for everything… yesterday she showed that she is in very good shape, but I trust that all together they will make it possible to return to the Olympic Games,” said Molina, after weighing the options based on what was seen on the preliminary date.
The Dutch are seen as the main rivals in the series scheduled for tonight, because even without depending on the stellar Femke Bol they could ensure advancement to Paris 2024. The teams from Kenya, Portugal, Switzerland and Botswana will occupy the rest of the lanes.
In the 4×100 meters for men Reinaldo Espinosa acknowledged that he will have to look for a more explosive start, since the strategy drawn up will depend a lot on it. Edel Amores, Yaniel Carrero and Shainer Reginfo will also need to reach the maximum of their possibilities to round out the effort to reach the Parisian event.
In the premiere they clocked 39.00 seconds and passed the finish line fourth in a series led by the representations of Japan (38.10) and China (38.25), in that order, to take direct tickets.
This Sunday they will have the challenge of overcoming Switzerland, Brazil and Poland, their companions in the heat that in the qualifying rounds they achieved a better time. Germany, Liberia, Denmark and the Czech Republic appear with fewer possibilities.
The outlook is more complicated for the women in the 4×100 meters, affected by the failure in the last change that caused disqualification.
With no room for errors, Laura Moreira will once again take charge of the game, and Jocelyn Echazabal will follow with Yarima García and Yunisleidy García.
Taking into account the background and the fact that this year the Cubans have not dropped below 44 seconds, it will be a major challenge to surpass the girls from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Liberia who flirted with qualifying in the first instance.
Hungarians, Chileans and Danes will join this call to complete the distribution of the 14 tickets to the French capital offered for all modalities in this universal event.
The two remaining places to complete the Olympic registration will be defined by a qualifying ranking.
