Three medals and a departure: what the case of the Cuban judokas in Florida reveals
Lianet Cardona, Dayanara Curbelo and Jonathan Charón reached the podium at the Florida Panamerican Open and, according to consistent reports from several media outlets, later left the Cuban delegation in the United States. The episode once again exposes a fracture in the island's sports system: training elite athletes does not guarantee that they will want to return to the system that trained them.
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