Volleyball
Ex-volleyball player “Uralochka” ran away from the national team. Coaches had to take drastic measures
Yamisleydis Viltres Pacheco (No. 25) / Photo: © VK Uralochka‑NTMK
The 30th incident in a year made specialists think seriously.
Cuba has been famous for the success of its athletes in international competitions for decades. The small island nation has raised dozens of Olympic champions and world record holders. However, recently the ranks of the Cuban national teams are rapidly thinning …
Escapes from the national team of Cuba began in the middle of the last century, but recently the old trend suddenly intensified.
In 2022, 30 athletes have already left the country! The last high-profile case happened just with the former volleyball player of the Russian “Uralochka”.
The girl ran away from the team immediately after the defeat by the United States.
Coaches have imposed drastic measures
Latin American News reported that on the night of August 27, 21-year-old Yamisleidis Viltres Pacheco, the former blocker of Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg, escaped from the Cuban volleyball team. The athlete left the location of the team that played at the Pan American Cup in Mexico. It happened immediately after the defeat of the Cubans from sworn rivals from the United States.
The departure of the young athlete was recorded by CCTV cameras, but where she is now and where she is going is unknown.
It is noteworthy that the day after the escape of Pacheco, who played in Russia for the last two seasons, the coaching staff of the Cuban national team forbade their volleyball players to use mobile phones.
Not the first time
In May of this year, the Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling Ismael Borrero escaped from the location of the Cuban national team, in July, athletes Yayme Perez and Yiselena Ballar deserted. Prior to this, the Cuban national team was left by long jumper Lester Lesky, Tokyo 2020 gold medalist in rowing Fernardo Jorge, as well as representatives of sailing Laura Manso and Miguel Exposito. And these are just the most notorious cases…
Cuba is known all over the world not only for its passionate spirit and magnificent resorts, but also for its terrible social problems. The country has been living under sanctions and a trade and economic blockade by the United States for decades, which has a tangible impact on the standard of living of ordinary citizens.
Athletes in Cuba face a range of additional challenges. The National Olympic Committee of the country takes a solid percentage of the money earned in competitions from athletes, even if we are talking about commercial tournaments.
The desire to find better conditions for earning and living among Cuban athletes outweighs patriotic feelings. The Cuban Sports Institute calls the escapes of athletes “a manifestation of low discipline in the country’s sports system,” promising to fight such cases. However, officials still fail to stop or even reduce the outflow of stars.
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Volleyball
A doctor from the Yenisei volleyball club provided emergency assistance to a child on board the plane
The doctor of the men’s volleyball club “Yenisei” from Krasnoyarsk, Shakhriyar Mirzoev, provided emergency assistance to the boy on board the plane.
The incident happened during the New Year holidays on the Kazan-Krasnoyarsk flight. The specialist noticed that the man and child were in the toilet for 20 minutes, and the flight attendant came in there periodically.
“I approached and saw that a boy of about nine was standing at the sink filled with water and blood. At that moment, the flight attendant began to ask if there was a doctor on board, to which I replied: “I’m a doctor, I’ll help now.”
I tried to stop the bleeding using cotton wool and improvised means that the conductors had, applying cold to the bridge of the nose. But this had no effect – everything was soaked in blood. The bleeding did not stop for about 20 minutes.
I tried to calm the child down and began to think about what to do next. I asked the flight attendants for a first aid kit and found ampoules of adrenaline there. Having opened two ampoules, I soaked two cotton pads with the solution and inserted them deep into the child’s nose. After a couple of minutes, I saw that the blood had stopped,” AiF Krasnoyarsk quotes Mirzoev as saying.
The child came to his senses. As it turned out, the boy had undergone surgery to remove his adenoids the day before, which probably caused the bleeding.
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Novosibirsk Lokomotiv defeated Moscow MSTU in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 3–2 (25:21, 20:25, 25:23, 23:25, 15:10) in favor of the guests.
Lokomotiv scored 44 points and ranks second in the Super League standings, MSTU (6 points) is 16th.
In other matches of the day, the Gazprom-Ugra club beat Dynamo-Ural from Ufa at home (3–0, 26:24, 28:26, 25:21), Nizhny Novgorod Gorky lost away to Orenburg (0–3, 28:30, 11:25, 25:27), Belogorye took victory over Yaroslavich in Tula (3–0, 25:17, 25:15, 25:22).
In the Women’s Super League, Minsk in the away match of the 17th round defeated the Zarechye-Odintsovo team with a score of 3-2 (15:25, 22:25, 25:21, 25:15, 15:7).
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Volleyball
Volleyball players of St. Petersburg “Zenith” beat “Nova” and won their fifth victory in a row in the Super League
St. Petersburg “Zenith” defeated “Nova” from Novokuybyshevsk in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 3–2 (25:17, 25:21, 19:25, 20:25, 15:13). Zenit extended its winning streak in the Super League to five matches.
In other matches of the day, Zenit Kazan beat Krasnoyarsk Yenisey at home – 3-1 (25:18, 25:20, 25:27, 25:20), the Dynamo-LO club (Sosnovy Bor) defeated Kemerovo Kuzbass at home – 3-0 (25:15, 25:19, 25:20).
The leader in the table is Zenit Kazan (16 wins, 45 points), Zenit from St. Petersburg (14 wins, 43 points) is second.
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