World · Latin America · 3 hrs ago
Cuban Olympic wrestler Yusneylis Guzmán leaves team in Mexico
Cuban wrestler Yusneylis Guzmán left her national team in Mexico during a stop on its journey to Brazil for a training period.
The 30-year-old won silver in the women’s 50-kilogram event at the Paris 2024 Olympics, earning Cuba its first Olympic medal in women’s freestyle wrestling.
She has also won medals at the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Cuba’s sports authorities have not publicly commented on her departure.
Athletes leaving Cuban delegations during international trips is a recurring pattern, including among canoeists who left a team in Canada in July.
Cuba is facing a severe economic and energy crisis, amid a US trade embargo, while its high-performance sports system has seen many departures in recent years.
No further details about Guzmán’s plans have been announced.
Yusneylis Guzmán left Cuba’s delegation during a stop in Mexico, according to a source close to the local federation.
The group was travelling to Brazil for a training period.
Guzmán won silver in the women’s 50-kilogram wrestling event at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Neither Cuba’s National Institute of Sports nor its Wrestling Federation had commented officially.
- Who
- Cuban wrestler Yusneylis Guzmán.
- What
- She left Cuba’s delegation during a stop in Mexico.
- When
- Monday, November 2, according to the report.
- Where
- Mexico.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The Cuban delegation was travelling to Brazil for a training period.
Guzmán left the delegation, according to a source close to the local federation.
- Olympic result
- Silver in the women’s 50-kilogram wrestling event at Paris 2024
- Age
- 30
- Travel destination
- Brazil
- Pan American Games
- Gold in Santiago in 2023; silver in Lima in 2019