The legendary hammer Yipsi Morenoglory of Cuban sports, was released from her position at the head of the National Athletics Commission in Cuba by “personal will,” the country’s highest sports body reported this Saturday.
A note signed by the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) and published on the sports portal JitI affirm that “according to your personal wishesComrade Yipsi Moreno González has been released from her duties as National Athletics Commissioner”.
The government entity recognized “the effort he made during his time at the head of athletics”, and announced as a relief to Rolando Carlos Charró Estradawho worked as director of INDER in the Cuban province of Guantánamo.
The information was also released in the night edition of the National Television Newscast.
Moreno, 41, is also a member of the Council of State since 2018 and a deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power, a position she will hold until 2023. It is not clear if she will continue to exercise her role in the Council of State.
The measure coincides with recent statements by the prominent former athlete, who this Friday assured that the collapse of the Cuban delegation in the recently concluded World Championships in Athletics in the United States – held from July 15 to 24 in the state of Oregon – “was not a defeat”.
“Oregon, I think that for every champion, for everyone who works, who makes an effort and always tries to give their best and even more those of us in the athletics family, it is dissatisfaction, it is sadness, but a temporary sadness, because at In the end, we all knew what might happen in Oregon,” Moreno told the Tele Rebelde channel.
The multimedia player world and olympic hammer throw He did not want to recognize that the lack of medals in the international competition was a measure of the current situation of Cuban sports, and added that the poor performance of the athletes in the yard “was something expected by the authorities”.
For the first time a Cuban team has not achieved a medal or any relevant result in a World Athletics Championship since its establishment in 1983.
Moreno said that the country has many young prospects, capable of sustaining the so-called king of sports, if they work with them in a dignified and organized manner.
At the beginning of the month, Moreno was also in the news for other controversial statements regarding athletes who decide to leave the island and make a career in other countries.
In a video published by the official media Cubadebateaffirmed that many later regret it because “the time comes when the money they earn in foreign clubs is not enough for them.”
That time he recognized that there is a lack of competitiveness in training, because if the athletes who leave achieve such relevant results in four months, it is because they find sufficient conditions in other clubs and nations to make that leap in quality.
She also indicated that she felt pressured because “I am in the middle, because I have to try to ensure that these athletes achieve their dreams and continue under the Cuban flag and that these coaches do not discourage me and leave me,” he argued.
He also admitted that the young promises of the Sports Training Schools (EIDE), need to have coaches of sufficient quality in the national team.
Moreno is considered one of the great Cuban athletes of all time. Her career as an auctioneer garnered titles and medals in all the elite competitions in the specialty in the world for two decades (1997-2016).
