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More champions come home
Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel
Bermúdez welcomes athletes returning from Veracruz
Central American and Caribbean Games. Baseball star
Alfredo Despaigne speaks for delegation.
Aliet Arzola Lima
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first Vice President of
the Councils of States and Ministers, and
Presidential advisor José Ramón Fernández welcomed a
group of returning champions at Havana’s José Martí
International Airport on Sunday evening, November
23, including swimmers and gymnasts, as well as
members of the country’s baseball and softball
teams.
“We
went to do the best we could. Some of us won, others
didn’t, but the efforts of all were evident. We
dedicate this victory to the people, we know what
they were expecting,” emphasized Alfredo Despaigne,
a member of Cuba’s gold medal baseball team, while
expressing the delegation’s appreciation for the
warm welcome.
Gymnast Manrique Larduet, winner of multiple medals
in the regional competition commented to Granma that
his accomplishments reflected a year of hard work,
saying, “I was completely confident that medals
could be won, and now I feel proud, because it was
up to me to recover the brilliance gymnastics had
lost.”
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