He Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) requested this Tuesday for “immediate expulsion” of Cuban canoeists Fernando Dayán Jorge, Tokyo 2020 championfrom the Refugee team (EOR) that will compete in Paris 2024 because it considers that “disrespectful” and “false” statements against his country.
In a statement, the COC demanding the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ““to fulfill his responsibilities” and criticized that to the team Refugees is very much Jorge like the Cuban weightlifter Ramiro Mora. on the notethe institution of the Caribbean nation He does not mention the name of the athletes.
In the opinion of the island organization, the fact that the two are within the delegation for refugees corresponds to a “politically motivated” and one “political manipulation of sport“, apart from being a “violation of the Olympic Charter“.
He COC He made sure that he had communication with IOC and emphasized that its directors recognized that “None of the Cuban athletes were uprooted by war or persecuted“So they insisted, They should not be part of that delegation.
“The decision to include Cuban athletes in EOR he was adopted behind his back to the Cuban Olympic Committee and with a clear purpose of attack the image of the national sports movement, which brought so much glory to our people,” the COC denounced.
In an interview with the AFP agency in the middle of the month, Fernando Dayán Jorge, who in 2022 left the delegation of his country in Mexico before participating in a competition, ensured that after his victory in the last Olympics he had a “six-month vacation” where he lives “like all Cubans” and that he was “no longer in the sports bubble” and that, after that, they wanted to call him back to compete “to be in Government nonsense. “That’s why I had desert“, he pointed out.
This is not the first time that the ruling party in Cuba has criticized the inclusion of Jorge and Mora in the EOR. In May, after announcing the delegation that constituted it, the newspaper Granma – official organ of the Communist Party (PCC, legal only) – stated that “the IOC, and the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, are mixing oil with vinegar. To put it more clearly, “They are complicit in the aggressive and criminal policy of the United States against Cuba.”.
Source: La Verdad
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