Cuban boxers out of Olympics?

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Cuba might not send boxers to Olympics: Castro

Cuba's Olympic Committee is considering all its options, including not sending a boxing team to the Olympics, after two boxers fled the team in the Brazilian city of Rio and returned home in disgrace, the country's leader, Fidel Castro, said in a Wednesday newspaper column.

"Sporting authorities are considering all the possibilities including changing the list of boxers or not sending any delegation at all," Castro said in the column, published in Cuban state daily Granma.

Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux jumped ship from the Cuban boxing team at the Pan American Games held in Rio last month, at the urging of German boxing promoter Ahmet Oner.

Castro, citing Spanish news agency EFE, said the two had spent their time getting drunk with prostitutes, bankrolled by Oner. The agencies said that last week that police had arrested the boxers for overstaying their visas, and they had then shamefacedly asked to return home, claiming they had been drugged by the promoter.

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