Cup of the World Town of Havana: Almost unscathed Cuban fencers

Havana (June 5).-WE ARE FINE. Only they eliminated us to a knob. Today on Friday it is the hard struggle», there moved forward this Thursday JIT Eduardo John, trainer of the masculine selection of Cuba of foil.

The declaration, minutes after the preliminary one of the tournament was concluding here Cup of the World Town of Havana in his inaugural date, could call to the wild optimism, but the proper trainer is in charge of bringing to the reality whom like that they will think.

«There are very good fencers, several from them even come of running in Canada and my boys live through his first rigor competition in the year after III Games of the DAWN», he said.

The only one eliminated in the day was juvenile Jesus Delgado, who battled like new D'artagñán, but his team-mates swore to avenge it, therefore this Friday hosts and foreign opponents could give themselves good duels between.

They classified for those of house the veteran Pedro Mojena, Michel Carty, Yoelkis Zamora, Yosniel Álvarez, Alexis Estrada, Jesus Riano, Amed Alí Álvarez and Yoenis Ross.

This Friday Road goes in the table of 64 against the American Alexander Massialas, in the most difficult of the pareos, since of winning it will have that them turn with the one that wins the Frenchman Brice Guyart, champion of editions of the Town of Havana, or with that one.

Aldama will fight with the Danish Alexander Jorgensen, Riano will be an opponent of the Gaul Thibault Sarda y Mojena of the Japanese Suguru Awaji, between others.

There meets to the appointment a whole of 58 fencers of Japan, Great Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Venezuela, El Salvador, Denmark, Brazil, Israel, Sweden and Puerto Rico.

For Saturday he announces the battle to himself between espadachinas, arms in which Cuba has options with consecrated Suleidis Ortiz, subholder of the world cup of South Africa.