The fourth visit to Mexico • Workers

In 2014, Mexico became the first country to host four Games in Central America and the Caribbean since the beginning of these events. As in other editions, the Central American fire was lit in Teotihuacán in a ritual similar to the New Fire, while the barrier of the five thousand athletes was defeated with a new record of participants (5,049).

The version of the CentroCarib Games in Veracruz just four years ago, was the uncertainty regarding the organization and security that accompanied it from the beginning. Finally, four sub-sites hosted the main actors of the event: Xalapa, Tuxpan, Córdova and Coatzacoalcos, where accommodation was abandoned in the traditional Olympic Village to be part of the hotel infrastructure already built.

The most anticipated Cuba-Mexico confrontation for first place, sealed with the success of our delegation a few days before the closure, of a schedule prepared to favor the hosts, which left the sports the strongest of ours towards the end of the program.

The keys were for Cuba the titles of athletics, wrestling and boxing in the last hours, as shooters, judokas, rowers and canoeists, not to mention baseball, cycling, artistic gymnastics , field hockey and beach volleyball.

The 123 golds of Cuba have shown great efficiency in the tests called and have left obvious signs that to aspire to the nowadays at the regional level that the number of gilts is the highest. ideal and will remain in the future for these games.

Luxury cyclists: Marlies and Lisandra .

In the Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, two Cuban cyclists, sprinter Lisandra Guerra and cross-country runner Marlies Mejías, were the most outstanding of our delegation in terms of titles, with four records each, with several records included.

The gymnast Manrique Larduet led the Men's Troupe with seven medals, including gold and four silver, although to be honest, we must recognize that he was stripped of several awards for an arbitration that did not appreciate the real quality of Santiago, month after runner-up of the world.

This was the twelfth triumph followed by Cuba by the nations in the regional ranks, but he left lessons that would later cost us second place at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, where In July 2018, a sequel renewed to more than 60% represents us in Barranquilla and the scenario will be very similar to that of four years ago, although the most serious opponent will be Colombia, because of its state of seat and the budget of the affected government.

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