The boxer Andy CruzOlympic gold medalist and world champion, and caught in June in a failed attempt to illegally leave the country, was expelled from Cuban sports for his “repeated lack of discipline,” reported Monday by National Boxing Commission.
“As a result of comprehensive reviews initiated within our national school’s disciplinary commission, the expulsion of athlete Andy Cruz Gómez from the Cuban sports structure has been decided,” announces the statement published in official media.
The Boxing Commission explained that the proposal was adopted due to “repeated lack of discipline” committed by the boxer, including his absence from training sessions before the tournament in Playa Girón and his non-interference in that event, the most important in the discipline being organized. on the island.
“The process in which the aforementioned punishment appeared also took into account his absences and late arrivals to training, absences from his teaching activities, which were marked by a marked decrease in his academic performance, and the manner where he broke promises. at several meetings organized under the direction of Inder (National Institute of Sports and Recreation), “he added.
It also points out that there are “multiple” dialogue spaces designed to “swap these and other offenses, recognized by the athlete himself, the main character of a behavior that showed signs of deterioration in the first half. of the current year. “
At the end of June last Cuban Boxing Federation (FCB) confirmed that Andy Cruz tried to leave the country illegally. An action he described as “serious indiscipline”.
“The fact, which classifies as serious lack of discipline in the regulations of our sport, will generate corresponding checks, which we will inform in a timely manner,” the FCB was quoted as saying by the official sports website Jit, without offering more details.
The 26-year-old boxer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, was not part of the Domadores team poster on his debut on the professional circuit on May 20 in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.
His record also includes first place at the Pan American Games in Toronto in 2015 and in Lima in 2019 and at the World Boxing Championship in Belgrade, also in 2021.
In recent months, there has been a drop of exodus of Cuban athletes from various disciplines – mostly baseball – to which boxing, volleyball, Greco -Roman wrestling, handball and athletics have been added.
Source: La Verdad
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