Taymara Oropesa, Cuba’s main badminton player, assured in this capital that although the task will be difficult, she will fight until the end to get a ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The only Cuban racket player with options to reach that quota through the continental ranking, Oropesa, bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile, and winner of the silver medal at the Central Caribbean event in San Salvador, also last year, said that hope is the last thing to be lost.
Winner of the title this Sunday in the women’s singles at the Giraldilla International Tournament in Havana and the silver medal in the doubles for women, along with the Brazilian Fabiana Silva, the player from the Island added 1,700 points to the world list in that event. .
In statements to the Cuban News Agency, the athlete from the province of Holguín expressed that she still has to participate in the Pan American Badminton Championship, based in Guatemala from April 10 to 13, which will close the Olympic qualifying process in the continent.
He added that this competition will give a greater number of units than Giraldilla, so we hope to make the most of that opportunity, he said.
Before competing there, I will be in Guatemala from March 31 in a one-week training camp, along with several of the best badminton players in America, he stated.
Orlando Cala, national commissioner of that discipline, declared that at the Pan American level Oropesa is currently between places seven and eight; while there must be five places granted, although that quota could be increased, he explained.
Cala highlighted that the continental tournament will award seven thousand points for the world ranking to the winners in each of the five events, individual and double in both sexes, as well as in mixed pairs, hence, with only passing one round the racket players They can accumulate more than a thousand units, he said.
The truth is that qualifying for Paris 2024 is difficult, but until the last moment there are possibilities, he concluded.
2024-03-23 15:44:35
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