Judoka Dayle Ojeda left the Cuban delegation that traveled to France to participate in the Paris Olympic Games.
The 30-year-old athlete traveled to the French capital to support the preparation of Olympic champion Idalis Ortiz (+78 kg), but did not take the flight back to the island last Wednesday.
“He did not return,” a source close to the national judo team confirmed to Martí Noticias, asking not to be identified for fear of reprisals.
Although Ojeda was not going to compete in the games, he had been in France for several weeks with other athletes and technical support staff for the Cuban delegation.
The information about the withdrawal of the Havana judoka had appeared this Friday in CubaliteThe digital portal took as a source Pedro Chacón, a Cuban judo coach based in Jamaica.
“Dayle was in France helping Idalys, the top figure in the +78 kg division, with her training. When she returned to Cuba, along with other judokas who performed the same function as her, she decided to abandon the training camp,” the report states.
At the time of writing, the whereabouts of Dayle Ojeda were unknown. The Cuban official media have not reported the news either.
The page The International Judo Federation (IJF) has recorded as its last official result Dayle Ojeda’s second place at the Varadero Open, a Pan American event held in Cuba last April.
Cuba in Paris: small delegation and cautious forecast
Cuba will participate in the Paris Olympic Games with 61 athletesspread across 16 sports. This is the smallest delegation since Tokyo 1964, when the island participated with only 27 athletes.
The most represented disciplines are athletics (19), wrestling (10), boxing (5), judo (4) and shooting (4). There will also be Cuban presence in canoeing (3), table tennis (3), diving (2), swimming (2), rowing (2), taekwondo (2), beach volleyball (2), archery (1), cycling (1), modern pentathlon (1) and weightlifting (1).
Since its first presence in Paris 1900, Cuba has participated in 22 editions of the Olympic Games, in which it has achieved 235 medals: 84 gold, 69 silver and 82 bronze.
In Paris 2024, Cuban sports authorities expect at least five gold medals and to be among the top 20 countries in the medal table.
José Antonio Miranda, general director of high performance at INDER, told the official portal Jit “This is a goal that must be achieved with five titles, and we have athletes with the level and mastery to achieve them, without giving up on equalling or surpassing the seven from Tokyo 2020.”
2024-07-26 20:31:30
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