The Cuban delegation that participated in the recent World Athletics Championships returned without one of its members, the hurdler Orlando Ortega, according to the official confirmation released the National Federation of the discipline.<\/p>\n
Therefore, from now, the 2013 is named as “Year of hardships for Cuban hurdles,” at least for those who want our best runners, beyond their thinking or philosophy, to defend the jersey of the four letters on the world of athletics.<\/p>\n
The denomination is founded and facts are there to prove it. First the former world record holder, Dayron Robles, reappeared on the international tracks racing under no flag, after having requested his dismissal from the national team.<\/p>\n
Robles\u00a0ran\u00a0in several\u00a0meetings, and his\u00a0times\u00a0fell\u00a0progressively\u00a0and\u00a0he\u00a0signed for\u00a0French\u00a0club\u00a0AS\u00a0Monaco, for which he\u00a0will run\u00a0in the near future, because\u00a0to compete for\u00a0any nation\u00a0he\u00a0must wait\u00a0two years\u00a0after separating from\u00a0the Cuban Federation.<\/p>\n
Thus, after the\u00a0statement exchanges between\u00a0Robles\u00a0and\u00a0Alberto\u00a0Juantorena, president of the\u00a0Cuban\u00a0athletic\u00a0institution, almost all of us\u00a0waive\u00a0him from seeing him race for Cuba,\u00a0although\u00a0there\u00a0may be\u00a0a tiny,\u00a0tiny,\u00a0tinypossibility.<\/p>\n
Now, as a\u00a0domino effect, we\u00a0lose\u00a0Orlando\u00a0Ortega, who\u00a0had\u00a0not yet\u00a0attained mastery\u00a0of\u00a0Dayron, but\u00a0had\u00a0sufficient credentials to\u00a0be established\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0hurdles\u2019\u00a0elite.<\/p>\n
Ortega was banned by the Cuban Federation last July for not attending a competition in Europe, but the entity lifted the punishment before the World Cup, where he ran out of pace, accusing almost a month without being on the tracks.<\/p>\n
In his qualifying heat in Moscow he crossed the finish sixth, unfortunate action that made all the media agreed he should return home, but he had other plans and left the delegation, perhaps to take a similar path to Dayron.<\/p>\n
Most truth of the matter, the palpable reality is that Cuban short hurdles, after more than a decade in the universal elite we will live a nightmare in this Olympic cycle, at least until they can forge new specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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