SANTIAGO, Chile — Once a sports superpower, Cuba now celebrates every gold medal at the Pan American Games. Two of them came on Friday with two-time Olympic boxing champions and kept the team from the Communist island in competition with its Caribbean rivals the Dominican Republic.
Cuba’s Julio La Cruz celebrates beating Brazil’s Keno Machado in the men’s boxing 92kg final bout at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile last Friday.
Two of them came on Friday with two-time Olympic boxing champions and kept the team from the Communist island in competition with its Caribbean rivals the Dominican Republic. Shortly later, light-heavyweight Arlen López topped another Brazilian, Wanderley de Souza Pereira, 5-0. La Cruz, a national hero back home, said he doesn’t want to defend his title in four years’ time in Barranquilla, the Colombian city that will play host for the next Pan American Games.
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