Ayumi Leiva has dozens of reasons to feel proud of this title after, in August 2022, at just 19 years old, she fled a Cuban sports delegation at Madrid airport and sought asylum from the passport control police.

When the Camagüey-born boxer Julio Cesar La Cruz fell to the Cuban-Azerbaijani Loren Alfonso, more than one of the cheap pro-government patriots that swarm on social media tore their clothes in outrage and once again labeled as robbery what was very clear in the ring.

In the history of Cuban sports glories, many of those who used to dedicate a medal to the "Comandante" are now desperately looking for someone to buy that same medal in dollars.

For not knowing how to manage the talent of a figure, for bad practices and for not respecting personal freedom, Cuba lost Melissa Vargas, today the best volleyball player in the world, but who brings glory to Turkey, her adopted country.

Finally, the noose around Cuban baseball’s neck has forced sports authorities on the island to eliminate a painful requirement that forced baseball players interested in playing in Cuba to undergo a bureaucratic repatriation process to prove the obvious: that they were Cuban.