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Half of Cuba men's hockey team defects
Yahoo! News ^
| July 26, 2015
Posted on 07/26/2015 2:00:18 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - Half of the Cuban men's field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States, a player and sources close to the Cuban delegation said.
The sources said eight of the 16 Cuban players had deserted, while team member Roger Aguilera put the number at seven, just the latest in a rash of Cuban defections across several sports.
"Everyone knows what happened to our team, we have seven of them in the United States," said Aguilera, after the decimated Cubans were hammered 13-0 by Trinidad and Tobago.
Short of manpower, Cuba could only field eight players instead of the standard 11 plus five substitutes.
They are not the first Cubans to defect during the Pan Am Games, after four rowers disappeared last week, including silver medalist Orlando Sotolongo.
It is not uncommon for Cuban athletes to defect, with baseball, boxing and volleyball -- sports where Cuban stars can command big salaries internationally -- particularly hard hit. . .
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Do it now before Obama gets rid of “wet foot dry foot”
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posted on
07/26/2015 2:48:41 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: LydiaLong
You mean they gave up all of that top quality health care?
Watch this
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
07/26/2015 2:57:43 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Obama will return them as a symbol of our
fealty to friendship with the communist dictatorship...
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:03:18 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
To: null and void
I hope Clinton and Reno rot in Hell for that.
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:04:17 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If the government can't protect the Marines, how can we expect it to protect us?)
To: null and void
But that especially. Traumatizing for life a little boy like that.
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:07:19 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:07:51 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
To: Spok
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:32:43 PM PDT
by
citizen
(America is-or was-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
“But this can’t be! I thought Cuber (hat tip to Ted Kennedy, D-Hell) was a utopian paradise!”
We all know that’s true, however, the next most obvious thing
is this is another, ringing ear, cross eyed slap down in a
long series from the Olympics to Putin to Iraq to this.
Obama is the worlds “bitch”.
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:34:11 PM PDT
by
Slambat
To: Brad from Tennessee
Donald Trump needs to talk to these guys and introduce them to the media..
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:38:09 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: tanknetter
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posted on
07/26/2015 3:40:35 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Defected?
Don't you mean immigrated?
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:00:51 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Why would they have to defect? Kerry and Obola just resumed having relations with the Castros.
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:02:22 PM PDT
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Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Tax-chick
Look how good the American men’s field hockey team will be now with those guys on board !!
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:06:42 PM PDT
by
Dartman
(Canadian, eh. And proud of it.)
To: LydiaLong
Don’t forget the fine educational system, too.
To: Dartman
Too bad they’re not good soccer players, the US obviously needs some of those after how lame they looked during The Gold Cup.
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:08:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Brad from Tennessee
Half of Cuba men's hockey team defects
Such ingrates!
The Castro brothers spent all their lives creating a communist workers' paradise, and these ingrates want to give all of that up? For what? America is headed in the same direction as their homeland.
But, I'll bet that they're not really field hockey players, and they're all baseball pitchers, hoping to strike it rich in MLB.
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:08:41 PM PDT
by
adorno
(a)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
07/26/2015 4:09:07 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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