Regret or Blackmail ??

It seems that police in Brazil have found the two boxers who defected from their Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. What's interesting is that they want to return to Cuba. Iguess the Cuban government has threatend their families if they do not return back to Cuba. That is very typical of Cuba.

Two Cuban boxers who disappeared during last month's Pan American Games were found at a resort near Rio, where police say they partied and ran up an
exorbitant tab.

Now, a police inspector says, they want to go back to Cuba.

Two-time Olympic boxing champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and Erislandy Lara were found Thursday at an inn in the coastal resort city Cabo Frio.

"We still have to clear up the reason why they abandoned their delegation and now want to return," federal police inspector Felicio Laterca said. "Right now, they are only saying they are very dear athletes in their country and that's why they want to return."

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Cuban Boxing Defectors Sign 5 Year Contracts

With no time wasted, two time Olympic gold medalist and two time World champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and reigning world amateur welterweight champion Erislandy Lara have signed 5 year contracts with Box-Promotion located in Hamburg, Germany. Rigondeaux won 243 of his 247 amateur fights. They are expected to arrive in Hamburg in four weeks.

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NOTICIA DE ULTIMA HORA

El empresario Alemán, Ahmet Oner, admitio a un diario brasileño que fue el quien organizó la fuga de los dos boxeadores de Cuba que desertaron durante los Juegos Panamericanos de Río de Janeiro. Oner es promotor de los cuatro boxeadores cubanos que se refugiaron en Alemania.

"Fui yo quien lo organizó todo", aseguró el propietario de la empresa Arena Box Promotion en declaraciones publicadas el jueves por el diario Folha de Sao Paulo y en las que admitió haber pagado cerca de medio millón de dólares por la operación.

Oner, empresario alemán de origen turco, se refirió así a la deserción de los boxeadores Guillermo Rigondeaux y Erislandy Lara Santoya, que llegaron a Río de Janeiro para disputar los Panamericanos y desaparecieron de la Villa Panamericana sin dar explicaciones.

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