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State propaganda arms in communist Cuba attempted on Monday to justify a lackluster performance at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics in which their athletes came home with nine medals — the same amount that Cuban exiles collectively won competing for other countries.nine medals in Paris, only two of them gold, resulting in a twenty-third-place finish in total medals and tying for thirty-second in golds.
The only highlight for Cuba was the Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, which went to now-five-time champion Mijaín López. López is theto win gold medals in five straight games — and he had to defeat another Cuban, Yasmani Acosta, competing for Chile, to get there. López is an outspoken communist who dedicated his gold medal in Tokyo to the late Fidel Castro. Even he was the subject of someduring those Olympics, however, as a camera caught his handlers feeding him communist talking points during a propaganda phone call to figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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