Havana, June 30 (RHC)  The Cuban sports delegation that will participate at the 30^th Olympic Games, to take place in London from July 27 to August 12, was given the National Cuban Flag  that will represent the island in the event, during a ceremony at Havana’s Jose Marti Memorial.

Vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel handed over the National Ensign to Greco-Roman wrestler Mijain Lopez, Olympic Champ at Beijing 2008 in the 120 kilo category.

The London event will pose a big and complex challenge to face, but the Cuban athletes will compete with the courage, dignity and patriotism that characterize them all, said Diaz-Canel during the ceremony.

The top Cuban government official called on the delegation to follow the example of recently departed boxer Teofilo Stevenson, a three-time Olympic Champ, who rejected those who offered him millions of dollars to leave his country; a selfless sportsman  committed to the ideals of his people and his revolution, he said.

The ceremony was attended by the president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, Jose Ramon Fernandez; the member of Cuban Communist Party Central Committee Olga Lidia Tapia, and the president of the Cuban Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute, Christian Jimenez.

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