Five-time Olympic champion Mijaín López waves his country's flag from the cockpit of the plane that brought the Olympic delegation back to Cuba

Havana, August 13 (Red Web) -- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel received on Monday night the last group of the delegation from Cuba that participated in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The Cuban leader and other authorities of the PCC, the Government, sports, political and mass organizations, and relatives of the athletes, waited for the Cuban representatives at the ‘José Martí’ international airport in Havana.

The delegation was headed by five-time Olympic champion Mijaín López, the protagonist of a unique feat in the arenas under the five rings, where he has put the name of Cuba on the high podium.

The Greco-Roman athlete and boxer Erislandy Álvarez, also a gold medalist in the summer event, carried the national flag.

After the initial minutes on Cuban soil, the official welcome ceremony was held, also full of emotions, on the eve of the 98th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, architect of the development of the sports movement in the country.

Once the activity is over, the athletes will tour the capital's arteries that will lead them to La Piragua, an emblematic site in front of the Havana Malecón, where the people will express all the pride they feel for the efforts of their athletes in Paris 2024, and the medals they now display on their chests. (Source: Cuban TV's Star Newscast)