2023-07-13 11:42:51
They call them “the dynamite sisters”. Leonela and Dayana Sánchez are two great boxers from Cordoba who had a moment of glory when they won medals at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.
Leonela hung the gold, Dayana the silver. Great expectations weighed on them for what was coming at the Tokyo Olympics. However, something unexpected happened.
Both tested positive for doping control. It happened in 2019, so they were left out of the Buenos Aires Pre-Olympic, qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Always together. Leonela and Dayana got on the podium in Lima in 2019. In December of that year they tested positive for an anti-doping control. Now, the eldest of the sisters is expectant because she too could receive an invitation to go to Tokyo. (José Hernández / file)
The substance found in Leonela and Dayana was furosemide, a diuretic used in sports to mask other drugs and that in boxing is often used to face the scales.
In this way, the Cordoba women lost their chances of qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In addition, they were left out of the Argentine boxing team.
The Leonela Dayana Sánchez sisters received a harsh sanction. (The Nation / file)
Despite the fact that the sanction had an expiration that allowed them to harbor hope for both, finally the TAS International Court applied a harsh sanction of suspension for four years in the activity that expires only in 2025.
The Sánchez sisters and a mural in the neighborhood to honor them
Dayana Sánchez wrote her historical page at the Tokyo Games. The Cordoba woman will go down in the books as the first Argentine woman to be an Olympian, but the boxer will also be portrayed on the walls of her neighborhood.
The sisters Dayana and Leonela Sánchez have their mural in the Juan Pablo II neighborhood. (Courtesy Dayana Sánchez)
Along with his sister Leonela, “Day” is already part of the Juan Pablo II neighborhood physiognomy. A group of neighbors decided to pay tribute to the Pan American medalists in Lima 2019 and made a couple of murals on the corner of the Sánchez sisters’ house.
The mural was made in 2021.
Dayana Sánchez serious, after a fire in her house
This Wednesday, it was learned that Dayana was seriously injured after a fire broke out in the house where she lived with her mother. She is admitted to the Instituto del Quemado in intensive therapy.
Dayana Sánchez’s house.
Apparently, a defect in a screen heater with a carafe was the reason for the accident.
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