The countdown to the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Cuban delegation that will attend this year with 69 athletes He has set an important goal for this summer fair, and that is that they want to finish at least among the 20 best countries.
The situation does not look so far-fetched after they finished in 18th place in the medal table in Rio 2016, thanks to the fact that they obtained 11 medals: 5 of gold, two of silver and four of bronze. They want to repeat or improve the performance.
Although the Caribbean are confident of matching or improving their performance, in the predictions made by Gracenote, An analytical portal of the Nielsen company, predicted that Cubans would finish in 23rd place on the medal table.
Cuba would win more medals than in Rio 2016; since the company calculated that they would end up with 5 gold, three silver and five bronze medals. However, they would end up down from Poland, Kenya and even Kazakhstan.
#Cuba 14 days before the Tokyo 2020 Games, Cuba finalizes details of its Olympic delegation and ratified today the design of being among the top 20 nations in the general medal table pic.twitter.com/CY6pWf1BJT
– Yasmanis Perez (@YasmanisPerez) July 10, 2021
Flag bearers of Cuba
Cuba will be participating in 15 sports in the Olympic fair, the same one in which it has athletes who start as favorites to be able to hang the gold medal. Without a doubt, the disciplines of Judo, Boxing, Taekwondo, among others, are the ones that can bring joy to the islanders.
Two of the great candidates that Cuba has are the judoka Idalys Ortíz (gold in London 2012 and silver in Rio 2016) and Mijain López (four times Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling), who will be the standard bearers of Cuba.
