Olympics: Cubans celebrate Olympic showing amid crisis

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HAVANA : Cubans on Sunday celebrated their 14th place showing in the Olympics' medal ranking, hailed their gold medal winners and said goodbye to the Games that provided a welcome diversion from the many challenges they face.On the last day of the Games boxer Andy Cruz won Cuba’s seventh Olympic gold, s

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HAVANA : Cubans on Sunday celebrated their 14th place showing in the Olympics' medal ranking, hailed their gold medal winners and said goodbye to the Games that provided a welcome diversion from the many challenges they face.

State-run television broadcast much of the Games with a 13 hour time difference, forcing residents to watch their champions in the early hours of the morning. During the last 15 days the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths have reached record numbers on the Communist-run island nation, averaging more than 8000 cases per day and 80 deaths and threatening to overwhelm the health system.

On July 11, just a few days before the Olympics, thousands took to the streets to protest living conditions, the largest outbreak of social discontent in decades.

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