Cuba may not send boxers to Beijing

Also, it appears that Rigondeaux has been sent back...

HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba might not send boxers to the world championships in the United States and other qualifying events leading up to next year's Beijing Olympics to prevent possible defections.

Castro wrote in a column published in official newspapers that two Cuban boxers who disappeared during the Pan American Games in Brazil last month only to be arrested and sent back to the island ''had reached the point of no return'' with the national boxing team.

''The athlete who abandons his delegation is not unlike the soldier who abandons his fellow men in the midst of combat,'' he said.

Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuba's top boxer and a two-time Olympic bantamweight champion....

http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=215705&hubname=

 

Where is I and I to tout all the freedoms that Cubans enjoy? :dunno:


Well..............they DO have a wonderful health care system. :bears:

 

:: I like where it says the government is deciding his new career.

 

I'm sure he will live a long and healthy life no matter what profession it may be in. :bears:



Seriously, that Rigondeaux dude sounds like he's about to piss his pants in fear. Looks like Lara is going to end up on outhouse cleaning duty until he keels over from a fatal case of cholera.

 

shitty

 

That's nice of them. ::

 

Castro's generosity is boundless! :bears:

 

Rigondeaux and Lara are serious dumbfucks.

They got caught partying in Brazil and told the police they wanted to go back to Cuba. So they're back, with their boxing careers over, disliked and hated by everyone there and still poor as hell.

Damn shame.

 

No, they were hiding in Brazil without their passports, and couldn´t get visa´s to Germany. They didn´t want to go back.

 

That's not what I read, let me try to find the link.

 

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
you really believe they WANTED to go back don't you!?! That is better than the artilcle itself:laughing: :laughing:

Then you want to find the link of where you read it, was it the Cuban National news??:laughing: :laughing:

They escape, hide, get caught, but you believe they want to go back to Cuba:doh:

 

"He also cited news reports from Brazil in writing that, during their 12-day absence, the pair holed up in a resort hotel with German promoters and three prostitutes. ''These are uncomfortable but essential details,'' he wrote. ''I imagine the boxers informed their closest, adult relatives about these facts.''"

:eeeek: :eeeek: :eeeek:

 

I wonder how much they had to pony up for the prostitutes?:dunno:

 

I think the promoters payed them.