Yariulvis Cobas, an Olympic rower for the Cuban national team competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, escaped slavery to the communist Castro dictatorship on Friday and defected. She becomes the second defector from the Cuban Olympic delegation.
Cuban rower Yariulvis Cobas escaped from the Cuban delegation participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The news was first reported on Friday night by independent journalist Leonardo Ruiz of Play-Off Magazine and confirmed by other media outlets.
According to journalist Francys Romero, this is the first reported defection of a Cuban athlete during the Olympics since Rolando Arrojo in 1996.
Cobas, 33, left the Olympic village after finishing 27th in the single scull among 32 competitors, Romero specified.
Before Cobas’ departure, the first defection from the Cuban delegation at the 2024 Paris Olympics occurred even before the official opening of the Olympic Games.
Judoka Dayle Ojeda (+78 kg), who was serving as Uke (assistant) to Idalys Ortiz, the main figure in the +78 kg division who ultimately did not win medals, decided to stay in the French capital.
Cobas joins dozens of other Cuban athletes who have defected from the Cuban dictatorship. Many of them go on to pursue athletic careers as free individuals, not as property of the Castro regime, which enslaves them and sells their talent to the highest bidder.
What has Cuban become? Sigh. Every time I see one of these ghetto fabulous names like Yariulvis, it makes me sick.
It’s not her fault. It’s the parents, and probably their parents, and possibly their parents. Basically, it’s the degenerate trash heap Cuban society has become in general, which is obviously not limited to blacks.
I’m not blaming her. It’s obviously the fidel castro/theregime that has degraded and degenerated the Cuban people. Still, I can’t help feel a sense of shame-as-a-Cuban when I see these names.