The Pioneer Cups are back – La Demajagua

After two years without taking place due to the impact of Covid-19, the Pioneer Cups return to the calendar, in which Granma will be represented by more than a hundred athletes, with the intention of placing among the first two positions.

This is how it transpired, this morning, during the flag ceremony of the delegation, in the Ñico López Museum Park, in Bayamo, where Víctor Corona Miranda, provincial methodologist of school sports, specified that the main hopes are based on baseball, artistic gymnastics, swimming, pentathlon and volleyball.

Regarding the edition that will take place next week, in various territories throughout the country, Corona Miranda announced that in each discipline only the six best provinces of the previous four-year period (2017-2020) will compete. For this reason, the Granma embassy does not appear in the calls for chess, athletics, boxing, wrestling, soccer, judo and karate.

In any case, he recognized that having achieved a position from 1 to 6 in 19 sports is an outstanding result, which other provinces with better infrastructure do not even come close to.

The main city of Granma will host the baseball and artistic gymnastics tournaments; The baseball players will play in the Manuel Alarcón Reina baseball field and in the Hermanos Blanco field, while the gymnasts will have actions in the 12 de Enero room.

The ball and strike contest will be animated by groups from Havana, Pinar del Río, Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila, Santiago de Cuba and the locals; while people from Holguin, Cienfuegos, Havana, Santiago and Pinar del Río, together with the hosts, will star in the gymnastics competition.

At the end of the flag, the student-athletes received detailed information about the events of July 26, 1953, in the former Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, and visited the exhibition hall.

THE OTHER LOCATIONS

Ciego de Avila: Athletics and diving.

Hundred fires: Badminton, canoeing, skating and rowing.

Camagüey: Boxing, artistic swimming and volleyball (m).

Holy Spirit Rhythmic gymnastics and archery.

Guantánamo: judo and karate

Matanzas: pesas.

Santiago de Cuba: fights.

Havana: Swimming, tennis and volleyball (f).

Mayabeque: Vasca ball.

prickly pears: Modern Pentathlon.

Villa Clara: Taekwondo and table tennis.

Isle of Youth: Beach volleyball.