With the celebrated wrestler Mijaín López leading the charge, Cuba aims to secure five gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics and finish among the top.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games officially began this Friday, July 23, 2021, after the opening ceremony took place where the delegation of Ecuador was not complete with its 48 representatives due to different inconveniences for several athletes in their arrival at the Olympic village and in the case of the marcher David Hurtado, he tested positive for covid-19 and is isolated with medical supervision.
From 18:30 this Friday, the representatives of Ecuador will begin to debut in the Olympic event.
Now the tricolor are thinking about their debut in the Olympic event, so they prepare rigorously for it.
Adriana Espinoza de los Monteros was the first to make her debut in the sporting event, within the discipline of archery and finished in 62nd place out of 64 participants, with a personal best of 606 points.
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by Simon Daish Success and a dream come true for Ecuador’s Alberto Miño, the fourth seed made sure of his ticket in dramatic fashion. A tense affair which went right down to the wire, Miño made an encouraging start to the match with a dominant display in game one, but before long it was his […]
International Table Tennis Federation 17 Apr 2021
The morning of Saturday 17th April signalled the start of the much-anticipated mixed doubles event at the 2021 Latin American Singles and Mixed Doubles Qualification tournament in Rosario, Argentina with a handful of fixtures from the Round of 16 getting play underway.
Two names who have been amongst the headlines in recent days, Cuba’s Jorge Campos and Daniela Fonseca Carrazana were amongst the successful partnerships from the session.
Jorge Campos (pictured) and Daniela Fonseca Carrazana strike opening round win (Photo courtesy of organising committee)
by Simon Daish
Jorge Campos and Daniela Fonseca Carrazana were the only pair to upset the seeding list, with the no.10 seeds earning an impressive 4-1 victory over the duo seeded three positions higher in Paraguay’s Marcelo Aguirre and Leyla Gomez (11-7, 11-4, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7).