Today we are just one month away from the flame of the XXXIII Olympic Games being lit in Paris, the city that will become the second city on the 26th, after London, to host the great Olympic event three times. world sport. There, Cuba has not given up on remaining among the top 20 national pavilions.
This purpose has just been confirmed by the authorities of the sports movement. It is about not giving up on continuing to grow in a colossal work of creativity and resistance, in the face of the intensified attempts of its historical enemy, the United States. The economic, commercial and financial blockade of that world power against a small island, in addition to being genocidal, because it tries to kill by hunger, is ridiculous and sterile. The Cuban athletes and their triumphs have shown it to them.
Due to this policy, which includes the inclusion of the Greater Antilles among the alleged countries that sponsor terrorism and the 243 coercive measures, conducted by the Government itself, the island will go with one of its smallest delegations in the last 50 years. .
Almost one hundred Cuban athletes have emigrated, after the pressures caused by this hostility, to which is added, as part of the plan, the persecution of athletes, which has come to be classified as the crime of human trafficking, even in multi-sports meetings. , as happened in 2007, at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, with a mafia conspiracy to remove the Cuban boxers from the venue. However, the one with the glass roof includes this country in another outdated list or report on human trafficking. The new mega-lie attempts to justify their hostility.
Cuba will not stop denouncing the abuses against it or any other people, but it will not complain or hide behind them. It will take on the challenge and, as always, defy the circumstances. That is the reason why it has set itself such a high standard, which it has maintained, uninterruptedly, since the Munich-1972 edition.
He will undertake it, at most, with about 60 athletes. Today it already has 47, among whom almost twenty have possibilities for the podium, and between five and six, at the top of the awards stage.
About five gold medals is the estimate for the expensive purpose. Since the Montreal-1976 fair, the delegations from this piece of the Caribbean have obtained five or more winners’ awards, except in Beijing-2008, when with three they achieved 19th place, remaining in the avant-garde twenty.
Furthermore, in the last five editions, representations with that number of crowns have secured a place in that prominent space, among more than 200 delegations.
But Cuba, in addition to going for a new feat, could also achieve several milestones in Paris-2024. Let’s see what its heroes and heroines will be looking for in the City of Light.
THE CUBAN GUIDELINES IN PARIS-2024
- Mijaín López is after a feat from another galaxy, five consecutive titles, in a combat sport. Nobody has done it so far.
- He could reach his 85th gold medal, today he has 84.
- He would have the possibility of reaching, in total, his 240th medal, today he has 235.
- It has great possibilities of crowning its first champion in speed canoeing.
- Boxing, with two awards, would reach its 80th podium.
- If the fight obtains a gold metal, it would be its eighth consecutive Games with victories.
- Cuba is aiming to be among the top 20, for the twelfth consecutive time.
- It could remain in 16th place in the historical medal table of the Games, from Athens-1896 to Tokyo-2020, today it has 84 gold, 69 silver, 82 bronze and a total of 235.
