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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia. – The presence of Cuba with its athletes of the highest level in the CentroCarib Games that will be inaugurated this Thursday and the fact that it was the first delegation to raise its flag in the Villa of the event, were put highlighted by the local press.
One of Barranquilla's leading publications, Zona Cero, topped his rating with photo of wrestler Mijaín López (130kg), triple Olympic champion, five World champion and four times the occasion of the Pan-American monarch, with that of his Greco-Roman teammate, Ismael Borrero (59 kg), holder of Rio de Janeiro 2016.
Mijaín comes to fetch the only prize he misses in his career, while Borrero, Gold of the Central America and Caribbean Games of Veracruz 2014, recently declared in Havana his determination to endorse this gold medal because he does not believe that in the region there are opponents able to block the road.
Zero Zone also hailed as accessories of the Cuban representation in the porfía for prizes, the gymnast Manrique Larduet, the long jump Juan Miguel Echevarría, the gold of the peonato World Indoor Athletics Cam, and the pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, silver in London 2012.
The fast shooter, Leuris Pupo, gold medalist at the London event, cyclists Arlenis Sierra and Marlies Mejías, the volleyball couple Beach ball composed of Nivaldo Diaz-Sergio González, as well as badminton player Osleni Guerrero were also hailed, while there was a special mention to the boxing team, for their victories as than Tamers World Series.
A total of 5,424 athletes from 37 nations will animate the Centrocaribes, to compete with 450 tests in 35 disciplines, in this city and in the sub-districts of Bogota and Cali. The medals were made by the guests, in a company that has been working for more than 40 years in the service of the Colombian Olympic Committee, according to El Heraldo.
THE FIRE CONTINUES HIS COURSE
After arriving from Tenochtitlán, Mexico, in San Andrés, the fire of the Barranquilla Games 2018 continued his journey through Bogotá , Cali, Cartagena and the 22 municipalities that make up the department of Atlántico. He will finish his clbad on July 19th when he enters the Metropolitan Stadium at 8:00 pm. local time (21:00 in Cuba)
Among other activities, here they have honored the deserving personalities of the sport. The shooter Helmunt Bellingrodt, silver medalist in Munich in 1972 and Los Angeles in 1984, was the central figure in the act of raising the Colombian flag, a ceremony held Tuesday after that of Cuba.
Chelo de Castro, veteran journalist at the Barranquilla Games in 1946, he left the facility that bears his name reopened, where he will participate in the weights and fight. At the same time, the publication As pointed out Eider Arévalo, champion of the local delegation and world champion at 20 kilometers, as a serious competitor for the gold medal.
The INAUGURATION
musical show, whose axis will be a mixture of culture and technology, will take place at the opening of the Games, at the Metropolitan Stadium.
For the occasion, the presence of the singer Barranquilla Shakira has been ratified as the main attraction of the day, which is inspired by the theme of the book Barranquilla 2132, written in 1932 by the sculptor Bogota Jose Antonio Osorio, where he tells the story of how the author sees this city a century later.
The show, in which will take part well-known representatives of the music, was mounted in the manner of a musical cutting film, with contents that tell the story of Barranquilla, as the l & # 39; 39, explained his artistic director, Víctor Ariza to the digital audience As .
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