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Cuba to Send Best Athletes to
PanAm Games
Cuba will send its best athletes
to Rio de Janeiro, confirmed
Jose Ramon Fernandez, president
of the Cuban Olympic Committee,
who went to a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Pan
American Sport Organization in
this Brazilian city.
Fernandez stated in an interview
that the best Cuban athletes
will come to Rio, with respect
for their people, which convokes
them, and also for respect to
all participating countries.
He said that the Cuban
delegation would be comprised by
500 athletes in 29 sports.
"Now they are under intensive
training, to reach the best
performances," he said.
"We are convinced that each of
our athletes will do all right
in Rio, as much as our
technicians, doctors and
psychologists," he stated.
Of course, our athletes will
respect their contenders in and
out of the playground and will
embrace their friends in this
continent, he said.
He remembered Cuban leader Fidel
Castro fostered sports from the
very beginning in Cuba, and from
then on, the Cuban people
practices sports and massive
participation is guaranteed.
He assured sport talents who
have possibility to train in
institutions from sports schools
up to academies and
universities, come from that
massive participation.
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