Like Park Chung-hee (Asia/South Korea: 1962-seventy nine) and Idi Amin Dada (Africa/Uganda: 1971-79), Fidel Castro is a sports fanatic and enjoys looking all styles of Olympic sports activities. Fidel Castro has visited the national group’s training camps, sports faculties, National Schools Games and hung out with the students-athletes and Olympic gamers. Since 1990, the Cuban dictatorship has spent extra than $80 million in keeping with yr into Olympic recreation. However, Cuba isn’t always an Olympic paradise. Cuba’s present day carrying records has been marked through sporting defections.
Every dictatorship has a style of its personal. Leonidas Rafael Trujillo had one: Dominican tune. Francois Duvalier had one: Haitian subculture. Kim Jong Il has one: the cinematography. He likes movies as “Gone with the Wind”, a well-known movie American. The dictator of North Korea wrote an essay “On the Art of Cinema”.
The Idi Amin Dada regimewas infamous for torturing political prisoners, forbidding dissent and loose speech. Under the dictatorship of Idi Amin Dada, approximately 350,000 humans have been killed. But he loves Olympic sports activities like Fidel Castro Ruz. During 1970s he had end up an outspoken champion of sport within the Third World. I remembered that the Ugandan group gained gold, 4 silver and three bronze medals at some point of the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in 1974. Overall Ugandan crew ranked tenth, earlier than Wales, Trinidad Tobago, Tanzania and Jamaica.
Fidel Castro as soon as stated: “What has Cuba’s function been in the Olympic Games? What has it achieved? What has been the fruit of our efforts to promote healthy smooth sports activities? At the 1972 Olympics, we finished 14th among 122 countries. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976–Juantorena recalls this nicely, and so do we–we completed eighth among 88 taking part international locations. In 1980, in Moscow we completed 4th among 81 nations; in 1992, in Spain we completed 5th among 169 international locations; and in Atlanta, in 1996 we completed 8th among 197 international locations. Could absolutely everyone refuse those figures”. But beneath one of the world’s oldest surviving dictatorships, the game has grow to be a beneficial way for males and females to get admission to to freedom.
Certainly, Cuban sport is a story of each frustration and miracles. The Cuban government reacted with increduly while in 1980 Roberto Edwin Urrutia, a weightlifter, suddenly announced his decision to are trying to find asylum within the United States. At the age 14 Urrutia made weightlifting high pinnacle priority, and ten months later he installed countrywide facts. Urrutia entered the 1975 Pan American Championship at the age of 18 and gained gold medals for Cuba. In December, in Matanzas, he come to be the primary Latin American weightlifter to achieve a World document. In 1976 he subsequently found out his dream of competing within the Olympics. Like Alberto Juantorena (song and discipline), Teofilo Stevenson (boxing) and Mireya Luis Hernandez (volleyball), Roberto Urrutia Hernandez, former member of Youth Communist Union, was a image of the Cuban Revolution. Roberto, become born on December 12, 1956, in La Havana, gained 3 gold medals on the 1978 Weightlifting World Championships and ended world Soviet’s-yr domination of worldwide weightlifting. Certainly, he became voted Hero of the Year via Prensa Latina. Before the Moscow Olympic Games, Roberto Urrutia defected to the US through Mexico.
In the beyond few years, we’ve got seen some of occasions take location: Taimaris Aguero, a player, got here to are seeking for freedom in Italy; Odelin Molina, an excellent footballer from La Havana sought political asylum in the United States; and Dulce Tellez, a sportswoman, got here to San Juan de Puerto Rico.
Aguero, who at 1,77, turned into taken into consideration one of the pleasant woman athletes in the Americas, at the age of 16 she grow to be the youngest person ever to be a member of Cuban Team. During the 1993 World Junior Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aguero completed first within the opposition for high-quality setter. When Tanya Ortyz, setter from 1987 to 1995, introduced her purpose to retire on the cease of 1995, Aguero became taken into consideration a leading candidate for the post. Therefore, she become keywoman whilst Cuba finished first at the 1998 World Championship. In 2000 Aguero helped the Cuban group attain victory on the Olympic Games. If not the finest setter ever, she is sincerely the maximum celebrated in volleyball history. Nowadays Taimaris Aguero is one of the most remembered and dearest sportswomen by using Cubans. Behind baseball, volleyball is the maximum famous recreation in Cuba.
Dulce Tellez changed into named pleasant player inside the 2006 Pan American Championships in Puerto Rico. Under her leadership Cuba received the bronze medal in volleyball inside the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. She left Cuba in July 2006–3 months before the World Championships in Tokyo. Before the 2006 World Championships, Cuba became ranked 3rd in the global. Now it’s miles ranked 7th. Meanwhile, Odelin Molina, become born on August, 1974, in La Havana, changed into considered one of Cuba’s best footballer and performed the 1991 World Championship Under-sixteen in Italy. In 1995 he defected to the USA, in which he lives now.
SPORTING DEFECTIONS
1. Abvin Sánchez, Lazaro-Soccer…1995…United States
2. Aguero, Taimaris-Volleyball…2001….Switzerland
3. Aldama, Yamilé-Track and Field…2003…United Kingdom
four. Arocha, Rene-Baseball…1991…United States
5. Arrojo, Rolando-Baseball…1996…United States
6. Barthelemy, Giorbis-Boxing…1990…United States
7. Blanco, Enrico-Boxing…1967…Canada
eight. Bordabehere, Roger-Cycling…1994…Venezuela
nine. Borrell, Lazaro-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico
10. Brito Ferrer, Michel-Gymnastics….2003…United States
eleven. Brito, Javier-Volleyball…2004…Puerto Rico
12. Caballero, Angel Oscar-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico
thirteen. Cala, Yosleider-Volleyball…2003…Puerto Rico
14. Campoalegre, Ramón-Water Polo…1998…United States
15. Casamayor, Joel-Boxing……..1993…..United States
16. Castillo, Ulises-Boxing……….1993…..United States
17. Contreras, José Ariel-Baseball…2002…Nicaragua
18. Chappe, Taimi-Fencing…2002…Spain
19. De la Pena, Janerky-Gymnastics…2003…United States
20. Delgado, Alberto-Soccer…2002…United States
21. Dennis, Angel-Volleyball…2001…Belgium
22. Díaz, Juan Carlos-Baseball…1996…Dominican Republic
23. Dominguez, Iván-Cycling…1998…United States
24. Duquesne, Alfredo-Basketball…1994…Canada.
25. Garbey, Ramón-Boxing…………1993…..United States
26. García, Ives-Swimming…2001…Puerto Rico
27. García, Osvaldo Junior-Water Polo…1995…United States
28. García Martínez, Aliet-Soccer…2000…..United States
29. Gato, Ramón-Volleyball…2001…Belgium
30. Gilbert, Andres-Basketball….1993…Puerto Rico
31. Gomez, Juan Carlos-Boxing……1995…Germany
32. González, José-Cycling…1994…Venezuela
33. Gregory, Elvis-Fencing…2002…Portugal
34. Griñan, Fernando-Soccer…….1996….United States
35. Guillen, Alain-Water Polo…1998…United States
36. Guillen, Arnaldo-Water Polo…1998…United States
37. Hernández, Adrian-Baseball…2000…Dominican Republic
38. Hernandez, Alain-Soccer…2000…Costa Rica
39. Hernandez, Ihosvany-Volleyball…2001…Belgium
forty. Hernandez, Jorge Luis-Volleyball…2001…Belgium
forty one. Hernandez, Livan-Baseball…1995…Mexico
42. Hernandez, Odalys-Softball….1993…Puerto Rico
forty three. Hernández,Orlando-Baseball…1997…By boat
forty four. Herrera, Roberto Carlos-Basketball….1999…Puerto Rico
forty five. Herrera, Ruperto-Basketball…1994…Canada
46. Hurtado, Diobelys-Boxing…1995…United States
47. Ibañez, Ciro-Weightlifting…1986….United States
forty eight. Juncosa, Abel-Shooting….1999….Canada
49. Lapera, Ulises-Field Hockey…1999…Canadá
50. León Tamayo, Charles-Gymnastics…2003…United States
fifty one. Marshall, Leonel-Volleyball…2001…Belgium
52. Martinez, Juan Carlos-Water Polo…1993…United States
53. Martinez, Rey-Soccer…2002…United States
fifty four. Matienzo, Richard-Basketball….1994…Canada
55. Miranda, Arturo-Diving…1995…Canada
56. Montalvo, Niurka-Track and Field…1997…Greece
fifty seven. Muñoz, Daimara-Swimming…1998…Puerto Rico
58. Nuñez, Jesús-Cycling…1998…Venezuela
fifty nine. Nunez, Vladimir-Baseball…1995…Venezuela
60. Ortega, William-Baseball…1996…México.
61. Perez, Angel-Kayak…1993…United States
62. Perez, José-Track and Field…1997…Puerto Rico
63. Piedra, Armando-Water Polo…1995…United States
64. Pino, Héctor-Basketball…1999…Puerto Rico
65. Ramírez, Rio-Diving…1993…Puerto Rico
66. Rodriguez, Heriberto-Cycling…1998…Venezuela
sixty seven. Rodriguez Osorio, Gunther-Swimming…2003…Puerto Rico
68. Romero Mayeta, Laseer-Volleyball…2001…Bélgica
sixty nine. Rosales, Nubis-Swimming…1998…Puerto Rico
70. Salas, Maikel-Volleyball…2004…Puerto Rico
seventy one. Sánchez, Alex-Baseball…1994…By boat
seventy two. Sánchez, Alexis-Track and Field…1998….Puerto Rico
seventy three. Toca, Jorge Luis-Baseball…1998…By boat
seventy four. Trevejo, Iván-Fencing…2002…Portugal
seventy five. Urrutia, Roberto-Weightlifting….1980….Mexico
seventy six. Valdés, Tatiana-Kayak…1994…United States
seventy seven. Vázquez, Juan-Basketball….1999….Canada
seventy eight. Wilson, Jesús-Wrestling…1994…United States
79. Zayas, Daniel-Weightlifting…1987…United States
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