Cuban Yarisley Silva will not be in the World Athletics Championships because she cannot carry her poles

Detailed that the member of the Athletics Federation in charge of transporting these teams was infected with Covid in Spain, which prevented him from moving to the world championship 2022. Other efforts to deliver the poles did not bear fruit.

“Given the unexpected circumstances, Yarisley ruled out the possibility of competing with the poles provided by the organizers of the universal event, because he considered that it would affect his performance and the preparation that he had carried out in recent months”, concluded the Cuban Athletics Commissioner.

Silva, Olympic runner-up in London 550 and gold medal at the indoor world championship 2014 in Sopot (Poland), qualified for the Belgrade event by ranking.

The Cuban delegation in the indoor competition in Serbia, now made up of five athletes, won its first medal this Friday with the triple jump of Lázaro Martínez, with a record of 17,400 meters.

Cubans Maykel Massó -olympic bronze medalist in long jump-, and his compatriot , the co rredora Roxana Gómez who was left out of the final of the 400 flat meters.

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