2023-10-30 15:54:14
They are not forecasts. Almost always, those who venture to predict are severely mistaken. And, if the predictions are correct, any resemblance to reality will be pure madness. These lines do not prophesy, they only wish the best to Yoao Illas, Omar Cruz and Idalys Ortiz.
When the printed edition of the artemiseño reaches your hands, you will know if this journalist was bold in trusting that the three representatives of our young province would obtain medals in Santiago de Chile.
Sorry for my optimism, but from his gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles event during the I Youth Pan American Games in Cali Valle, to the also gold medals in the 4×400 meter mixed relay and the hurdles, in the V Games of the ALBA 2023, in Caracas, Yoa Illas from Bahiahonda has grown and invites you to believe in him.
Perhaps Ariguanaban judoka Omar Cruz had the most complicated path to the podium: first he had to overcome an American and a Chilean in his eliminatory group D, and then each phase would be more difficult, in the division of more than 100 kilograms, where the largest Hope for Cuba lay in Andy Granda, World Champion in Tashkent 2022.
And who in this archipelago did not expect the fourth crown of the Candelarian Idalys Ortiz in the Pan American Games? What did she depend on? Of herself, she imposed her talent on each rival, especially the Brazilian judoka Beatriz Souza, whom the organization chart placed in her own C key.
The Olympic champion in London 2012 is the standard bearer of the Cuban delegation at the event in Santiago, Chile, so logic pointed to trusting that she would add a new victory to those of Guadalajara 2011, Toronto 2015 and Lima 2019.
If everything happened as this sports lover imagined, then yesterday was a Pan-American Monday… and an Artemisian Monday.
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