Tokyo, Jul 18 (ACN) All the athletes members of the Cuban Olympic delegation present in the Japanese capital today lived up to their expectations for their second day of training in the majestic village erected on an artificial area of the bay.
“The tasks designed based on the conditions in force for these first days were fulfilled,” he commented to JIT Ariel Sainz, vice president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder), alluding to the need to adapt work to the gym and other areas of the housing complex.
After recalling that the facilities located outside of that environment will only be available five days before the start of each tournament, the manager highlighted the good response of the competitors in the midst of adapting to the variation in the time difference.
“It is a process with characteristics well known by our coaches, which allows its effects to be mitigated while fulfilling the purpose of giving continuity to a work that now contributes to the maintenance of the sporting form,” he said.
Sainz insisted on the priority assigned to health measures associated with COVID-19, an area in which he pondered the work of the specialists of the Institute of Sports Medicine of Cuba, who are responsible for complying with the established protocols.
He reported that the swimmer Luis Emigdio Vega has already joined the group, who arrived from the Russian city of Kazan, headquarters of the scholarship assigned to him by the international federation, and this Monday the cyclist Arlenis Sierra, the discobolas Yaimé will arrive on Japanese soil Pérez and Denia Caballero, and the high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas.
He commented that the road rider will be installed with her coach, Leonel Álvarez, in a hotel in Tokyo itself, designated by the organizing committee for those enrolled in this modality, in order to facilitate the necessary logistics for training.
Along the same lines, he added that the exponents of athletics, together with the technicians Hilda Elisa Ramos, Raúl Calderón and Juan Francisco Centelles, will travel from Castellón, in Spain, and will continue to the city of Tachikawa.
He explained that there is a camp managed by Panam Sports for various sports, including beach volleyball, which was received since Friday by Cubans Lidianny Echeverría and Leila Consuelo Martínez.
These made up the first group of the Cuban athletic embassy, also with the presence of boxing, judo, shooting, taekwondo, weight lifting, table tennis, artistic gymnastics, swimming and rowing.
The fair under the five rings will be inaugurated on the 23rd and will distribute medals in 339 events until August 8, of which Cuba will have actions in 64.
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