“I have fulfilled my dream of joining the team of the great Iván Pedroso,” said the athlete himself, who has not competed since 2021
EFE (via 14ymedio), Madrid, 30 April 2024 — Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría will compete for the Island again. The sports authorities, Jit reported on Monday, “welcomed the wish expressed by the Olympic long-jump runner-up. Given the absence of elements that disqualify him, his case will be added to the current reintegration policy for Cuban sports,” said National Commissioner Rolando Charró, without naming the 25-year-old athlete, the winner of the silver medal in Tokyo 2020 and indoor world champion in Birmingham (United Kingdom, 2018), and without clarifying where he currently resides.
“I have fulfilled my dream of joining the team of the great Iván Pedroso,” Echevarría himself said on his Facebook page, where he also thanked “my former coaches, to whom I am indebted for being here.” In the same publication he says he will begin working to “first achieve the score required for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, with the desire to compete and continue to