• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 01 / 27 / 2012

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Highlights Cuban athletes athletic specialty will be touring the European continent. Fourteen young people added to represent the island in the winter tour that aims to prepare athletes overlooking the indoor world championships in Turkey.

According to Radio Havana Cuba informed the technical chief of the Cuban Athletics Federation, Mayra Vila, the tour will cover "new country" and will be an "excellent thermometer" World-view room (9 to 11 March in Turkey) and London Olympic Games (July 27 to August 12 in London).

The tour will begin on February 5 in Moscow and ends on March 9, the date of commencement of the world indoor championships in Istanbul, Turkey, said Vila, a former national record in javelin.

"They have a series of meetings have already been confirmed in nine countries: Spain, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Great Britain, Sweden and Russia," confirmed the policy.

"The start will be staggered, not every athlete will come out at the same time, they depend on the date of the powers that be", he said.

He said the first athletes to travel to Europe will be the vaulter Borges, world runner Daegu2011, Yarisley Silva, Guadalajara Pan-American Monarch 2011 and Dailis Knight, who will travel on January 31 or February 1 to intervene in a number lides from 5 January in Moscow.

Then incorporate the hurdlers and Orlando Robles Ortega, six triple jumpers, including world medalists Yargelis Savigne, Alexis Copello and Betanzos Yoandry Mabel Gay, the Valista Misleidys Gonzalez and Carlos Veliz, and decathlete Leonel Suarez.

Vila said both Silva Borges will have a "four skills" before the World Cup, including the Feb. 11 in Donetsk, Ukraine, which will be the best pole vaulter in the world and they were invited by the organizer, retired multichampion Sergei Bubka.

With respect to the star Dayron Robles, the board said he has planned three races before the World: 10 February in Dusseldorf, Germany, 18 the same month in Birmingham, and 23 in Stockholm, Sweden.

"The fundamental objective of preparatory Robles in these competitions is to break the world record (7.30 s in the hands of Britain's Colin Jackson) and managed to regain the gold-2010 in Qatar," said Vila, to ensure that Robles is "training very well , and is in very good physical and psychological metal. "

On the triple jump, one of the specialties with the highest level in Cuba in recent years, the board noted that currently being trained in Cuba nine figures-five male and four female in-three of which will travel in each sex two will tour and the World Cup.

Cuba has traditionally excelled at the World indoors and in the last edition, Qatar-2010, took third place with five national medals (1-3-1).

The champion was the star of the hurdles Dayron Robles, who dominated the 60 hurdles with excellent lap time of 7.34 seconds, the third record of history.

The other medalists were Savigne (silver in the triple jump with 14.86 m), Yoandry Betanzos (also silver in triple 17.69 m) and William Collazo (runner-up in the 400 meters with 46.31 s). The bronze went to David Giralt triple, with 17.36 m.

 Cuban athletes to tour Europe with a view of the World:

110 hurdles: Dayron Robles and Orlando Ortega

Triple jump: Yargelis Savigne, Mabel Gay, Dainellys Alcantara Yosleidis Rivalta, Alexis Copello, David Giralt, Yoandry Betanzos, Ernesto Reve and Osniel Tosca. (Travel six).

Pole vault: Lazaro Borges, Silva and Dailis Yarisley Caballero.

Bullet Drive: Carlos Veliz and Misleidis Gonzalez.

Decathlon: Leonel Suarez.