Cuban hammer thrower athlete dies after training accident

• Cuban hammer thrower athlete dies after training accident.
• It’s Alegna Osorio Mayarí, one of the most outstanding athletes in her country, who specialized in hammer throwing.
• The young woman of just 19 years old died after four months convalescing.

Cuban throwing hammer athlete dies after serious accident during training. Just when the whole world is enjoying the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation of Cuba (Inder) reports on the unfortunate loss.

It’s Alegna Osorio Mayarí, one of the most outstanding athletes in her country, who specialized in hammer throwing. The 19-year-old girl died after four months convalescing.

Cuban hammer thrower athlete dies after training accident

This Thursday, just as the athletics competitions begin in the Olympics, Inder announced the death of Alegna Osorio after the severe concussion she suffered when a hammer hit her on the head during training at a sports complex in Cuba.

“We regret the death of the young hammer player Alegna Osorio Mayarí, who for months struggled against the effects caused by an accident suffered while training. #InderCuba, who has been with his parents, conveys condolences to them, family and friends «, reported the sports organization in its twitter account.

Convalescing for four months

After the accident during training that hit her head hard, the young promise of 19 years, remained in a delicate state of health for four months, reported La Opinion and other international media.

Osvaldo Vento Montiller, current president of Inder, also expressed his regret for Osorio’s death. «We share this irremediable pain that their family members feel,» he wrote this Thursday on social networks.

«I am very sad»

Gwen Berry, an American athlete who stands out in the same discipline as Osorio and who is currently participating in the Tokyo Olympics, was surprised by the news and lamented the death of the Cuban athlete.

“I send my love to your family right now. This is very sad, ”Berry wrote about the message from Victor Almeida, a Cuban sports reporter who spread the unfortunate news on his Twitter account.

Alegna Osorio Mayarí

Alegna Osorio Mayarí was a 19-year-old young woman, a promise of sport in Cuba. He had already achieved the bronze medal at the Pan American U-20 games in 2019. In addition, he finished fourth at the Youth Games in Buenos Aires in 2018.

“A rookie threw the hammer against Alegna Osorio, hitting him on the head that broke his skull, exposing the encephalic mass. Alegna was transported to the hospital in serious condition, where after four months of agony she died ”, reported the Zócalo newspaper about the unfortunate story of the Cuban athlete.

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which take place a year later because of the pandemic that suspended everything, takes place in Japan from July 23 to August 8, 2021.

During the inauguration, the world was able to enjoy the song «Imagine» performed by artists from all continents. For Alejandro Sanz, the message of world peace in this song that he performed on video for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics is more necessary now than ever.

Alejandro Sanz: «The Olympics are magic that we needed»

“I think it’s one of the most beautiful hymns ever written for pop in the history, the message cannot be more conciliatory and come more ad hoc than at this moment, ”he said on Friday in an interview by video call from Andalusia, Spain, the land of his family.

«Sport and the Olympics represent the magic that the whole world needed,» he added. Sanz sang «Imagine», original by the British rocker John Lennon and his Japanese wife Yoko Ono, in a pre-recorded video together with American John Legend, Australian Keith Urban and Beninese Angelique Kidjo. Cuban hammer thrower athlete dies after training accident.

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