2023-06-28 05:59:53
The fourth day of the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games brought with it a controversial episode for the organizers and the Mexican delegation that competed in sport shooting following achieving first, second and third place in said discipline.
Mexico took the 1-2-3 in the air pistol event (women’s 10m) headed by Andrea Ibarra (gold), Alejandra Zavala and Alejandra Cervantes with silver and bronze, respectively. The awards ceremony went smoothly and the three Mexican athletes took the podium.
However, a day later, the organization’s authorities stripped Alejandra Cervantes of her bronze medal, arguing that according to the regulations a country cannot keep all three medals in the same event, so the medal was awarded to fourth place to the Cuban athlete Laina Pérez.
“Whoever made the regulation was not an athlete and if he was, he already forgot, because it is unfair that whoever wins it in competition cannot take it home.
“There is no justification, it’s absurd and I don’t know why, and if that happened in previous competitions, but hey… The medal is not mine, it’s hers,” Laina Pérez proposed before taking off the bronze medal and returning it to the Mexican Alejandra Cervantes in an act of fair play.
The Mexican delegation continued to dominate swimming at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador and Santo Domingo, and took four new gold medals on Tuesday that allow it to ratify itself in first place in the general medal table with 37 golds, four more than Colombia.
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