According to statistics of the International Athletics Federation, 27
Cubans hold the marks required to compete in the British capital, though
in certain events like men’s triple jump only two will be selected, and in
other cases they will have to repeat their performance to validate their
tickets.

Boxers secured seven berths in the Baku World Championship. They were
world champions Lazaro Alvarez (56 kg) and Julio Cesar La Cruz (81 Kg);
runner-up Yasniel Toledo in the 60 kilo category; and Yosvani Veitia (49
kg), Robeisis Ramirez (52 kg) Jose Angel Larduet (91kg) and Erislandy
Savon the super heavyweight division.

In wrestling, the only fighting sport in which Cuba has maintained the
leadership since the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, three tickets were already
garnered by Mijain Lopez and Pedro Isacc in the Greco-Roman style and
Lisban Lopez in the free style.

In sports shooting four athletes made it to the Olympics: Leuris Pupo and
Eglys Cruz both of them classified in the 2010 World Cup, while Dianelys
Perez and Guillermo Alfredo Torres, the latter in skeet, reserved their
passes in the latest Guadalajara Pan-American Games.

In the same regional event, Jorge Garcia in single canoeing and the women
couple joined Serguei Torres and Karel Aguilar (C-2) who had already
classified in the world championship; in the mean time there is still one
kayaker to choose for the London event.

There will be also rower Angel Fournier in the open single and Hanser
Garcia in swimming. Likewise, Cuba has the right to take one athlete in
the men’s road cycling, after the closing of the world ranking in that
specialty.

Almost by the end of the year, three tae kwon do fighters: Robelis
Despaigne (+ 80 kg), Nidia Diaz (57 kg) and Glehnis Hernandez (+ 67 kg)
won their tickets in the Pan American qualifying event of Queretaro, Mexico.

So far, these are the qualified and the ones who are already training to
meet their respective goals for the long-awaited Olympics

Cuba could take more than 100 sportspeople to London, as there are still
options in the volleyball teams, both men’s and women’s; men’s soccer and
women’s basketball; and among individual sports, in judo, rowing, cycling,
diving, boxing and wrestling.