05. Februar 2011  
Houston, USA / Cologne, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

The Destiny of Charlie Tamayo: Out of Cuba !

Charles Leon Tamayo (C) N. Schenck
Charlie Tamayo at youtube

The former Cuban gymnast Charles Leon "Charlie" TAMAYO (30) is currently the most prominent displaced top sportsmen in the USA. Ten years ago, at the age of 20 he won the vault bronze medal at the Worlds in Ghent 2001 behind Marian Dragulescu ((ROU) and Evgeniy Sapronenko (LAT) and a half year later his first world cup event in Cottbus, Germany (2002).

At the 2003 Worlds in Anaheim he deserted the Cuban team and got away into the USA, but he is not just net a US host country national ...

* The German journalist Niklas SCHENK from Heidelberg reports about the Odyssee of Charlie Tamayo in a broadcast coverage > Broadcast Coverage of the "Deutschlandfunk".

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