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xoxoxoBruce 08-08-2007 10:30 PM

Cuban boxers out of Olympics?
 
Cuba might not send boxers to Olympics: Castro
Quote:

Cuba's Olympic Committee is considering all its options, including not sending a boxing team to the Olympics, after two boxers fled the team in the Brazilian city of Rio and returned home in disgrace, the country's leader, Fidel Castro, said in a Wednesday newspaper column.

"Sporting authorities are considering all the possibilities including changing the list of boxers or not sending any delegation at all," Castro said in the column, published in Cuban state daily Granma.

Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux jumped ship from the Cuban boxing team at the Pan American Games held in Rio last month, at the urging of German boxing promoter Ahmet Oner.

Castro, citing Spanish news agency EFE, said the two had spent their time getting drunk with prostitutes, bankrolled by Oner. The agencies said that last week that police had arrested the boxers for overstaying their visas, and they had then shamefacedly asked to return home, claiming they had been drugged by the promoter.
Castro is afraid Cuban boxers will defect to RED China??

rkzenrage 08-08-2007 10:33 PM

As Cubans they will be able to leave, especially if they get to a US embassy.

Rexmons 08-08-2007 10:36 PM

anyone else think castro might be dead and there just hiding it to prevent a revolution?

xoxoxoBruce 08-08-2007 10:54 PM

I don't think so.

rkzenrage 08-08-2007 10:56 PM

Boy, those commies just have it great over there... they are just singin' tha' praises!!!
Does a heart good, huh?... huh?.... hellllloooooooo....

Shawnee123 08-09-2007 12:22 PM

Good. I hate those Cuban boxers. They ride up your ass and cinch around the waist.

Griff 08-09-2007 02:10 PM

It's spelled clinch.

deadbeater 08-13-2007 05:26 PM

Cuba must really hate China for China embracing laissez-faire capitalism.

They should be worried about their baseball players ducking to Japan or what not.


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