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Mayor says UK can learn
from Cuba
BBC,
UK, 5 de noviembre de 2006.
The UK can learn from Cuba's Olympic achievements,
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has said.
Mr Livingstone, who on a tour of a Latin
America, said he wanted to find out how
the Caribbean island "engaged their
young people in sport".
"Though Cuba's only got a fifth of
the population of Britain, it gets as many
medals in the Olympics as we do," he
told a sports congress in Havana.
He also attended a cricket match as part
of a drive to develop the sport.
'Engaging people'
In the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Britain
and Cuba came in tenth and eleventh place
respectively, both with nine gold medals.
Mr Livingstone said he wanted to learn
more about Cuba's successful sports programmes
ahead of London hosting the Games in 2012.
"Clearly they're doing something right
here about engaging their young people in
sport, and that's what I'm really interested
in finding out about."
He said he was not expecting to meet Cuban
leader Fidel Castro, who has been recovering
from intestinal surgery.
"I'd be honoured," he said. "But
I'd much rather he got well, and got back
into being in charge," he said.
He is due to fly on to Venezuela to meet
President Hugo Chavez on Monday.
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