{"id":234449,"date":"2021-02-10T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=234449"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:48:13","slug":"cuban-taekwondo-champion-to-start-training-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/cuban-taekwondo-champion-to-start-training-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban taekwondo champion to start training in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two-time world taekwondo champion in the 87 kilograms, Rafael Alba, the only Cuban in the discipline classified for the Tokyo Olympic Games, will begin his training in March in the city of Manchester, England, that sport&#8217;s Federation reported this Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alba, the champion at the Puebla 2013 and Manchester 2019 events, also won a bronze medal at the World Cup in the Russian city Chelyabinsk in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt would be in Manchester and not just Rafael, because athletes from other divisions would also go. He is part of the English team\u2019s preparation for the Olympic Games,\u201d said the president of the Cuban Taekwondo Federation, Iv\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fern\u00e1ndez said that the Cuban athletes will stay approximately 20 days to a month in England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that only the members of the preselection that are preparing to attend the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2022 will stay in Cuba, as well as the athletes who will attend the qualifying tournament in the Dominican Republic for the 1st Pan American Youth Games in Cali, Colombia, in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EFE\/OnCuba<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time world taekwondo champion in the 87 kilograms, Rafael Alba, the only Cuban in the discipline classified for the Tokyo Olympic Games, will begin his training in March in the city of Manchester, England, that sport&#8217;s Federation reported this Tuesday. 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