2023-05-30 14:34:39
Cuban sports authorities confirmed the death on May 30 of the former volleyball player from the island, a member of the well-known cast of the “Morenas del Caribe”, who won three consecutive Olympic gold medals, although the passer from Villa Clara was only in the two first dates.
Osvaldo C. Vento, principal director of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) specified through Twitter, that this was “sad news”, because “Raiza Mirelda Ofarril Bolaños, a member of the golden generation of the Morenas del Caribe, passed away. She is a two-time Olympic champion and world titleholder. Iconic figure of our volleyball. From #InderCuba we share the pain of family and friends”.
The sports journalist of Radio Havana Cuba, Raúl Rodríguez added on his Facebook profile that the death occurred in “the early morning of this Tuesday” and after a fight “for some time against the painful disease (cancer) that finally took his life ”.
DEATH OF MORENA FROM THE CARIBBEAN
The pro-government reporter added that “his corpse will be veiled at the Calzada y K Funeral Home, in Vedado, Havana, and will later be cremated.” O’Farril, two-time Olympic champion in Barcelona 92 and Atlanta 96, she was a teammate of such outstanding athletes in this discipline as Mireya Luis and Regla Torres.
O’Farril’s birthday was last April, his 51 years old and he was still very young, although he had been fighting cancer for a long time. According to relatives, in recent days she was already “very sick.” Raisa was originally from the Villa Clara municipality of Cifuentes, in the center of the country. She was considered a “sports glory” in her territory and the entire country.
“Despite the battle she had because she was a warrior, she could not win it, but in heaven she will be received and there she will have peace and rest forever. She lost volleyball, Villa Clara lost, the University of Sports lost, we all lost. Rest in peace my girl, your days of pain are over,” said a close friend from Villa Clara.
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