| 18/04/2021 – 13:18 (GMT-4)
the young woman Cuban athlete Alegna Osorio Mayarí, de hammer throw, Is hospitalized and struggles for life after suffering a stroke serious accident.
“Coach Emilio González informs that the Camagüey hammersmith Alegna Osorio Mayarí is hospitalized with danger to his life after suffering an accident,” journalist Félix Añazco Ramos said on his Facebook profile on Sunday.
So far no further details have been released about the accident or the athlete’s health.
The reporter added in his publication a trade union message of encouragement in which he highlighted the greatest achievement in Osorio’s brief career: “The Camagüey sports press is sending a lot of strength to the bronze medalist of the Youth Olympic Games from Buenos Aires and his family. Let’s be champions !!! “.
In his native Camagüey girl, Osorio has been considered a “promise” in this athletic modality and has even been compared to his countryman. Yipsi Moreno, Multiple world champion and Olympic medalist.
Añazco Ramos himself reported in October 2018: “Alegna Osorio, the only Camagüey woman in the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games 2018, Won the bronze medal in the hammer throw (3 kilograms). Will it be the new Yipsi Moreno? “.
The youthful camagüeyana, then with 16 years, added 127 meters between its two better launchings of the implementation.
The following year, the athlete would reap other two bronzed metals in the National Championship of Athletics (mark of 67,73 meters) and in the Pan-American one of Athletics of San jOse, Costa Rica (50,15 ms).
Following the news, messages of support have proliferated on Facebook. “Pretty champion, all your people are waiting for you back on the track, we hope you recover very soon,” wrote one of the Internet users sensitized by the short report on the social network.
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