Cuban boxers out of Olympics?

xoxoxoBruce · 08-08-2007, 10:30 PM

Cuba might not send boxers to Olympics: Castro

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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??

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.

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.

08-08-2007, 10:36 PM	#3
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08-08-2007, 10:54 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't think so. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-09-2007, 12:22 PM	#6
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Good. I hate those Cuban boxers. They ride up your ass and cinch around the waist. __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-09-2007, 02:10 PM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	It's spelled clinch. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-08-2007, 10:33 PM	#2
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	As Cubans they will be able to leave, especially if they get to a US embassy.

08-08-2007, 10:56 PM	#5
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Boy, those commies just have it great over there... they are just singin' tha' praises!!! Does a heart good, huh?... huh?.... hellllloooooooo....

08-13-2007, 05:26 PM	#8
deadbeater Sir Post-A-Lot Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 439	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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