Yamile aldama biography samples

  • Biography.
  • Aldama was born in Havana on August 14 1972, and grew up under Cuba's sunshine socialism, one of seven children.
  • Ex-Cuban Yamilé Aldama, an Olympic triple jumper, struggled for years to become a British citizen and deal with family adversity.

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    So, it's another plastic Brit who should be outlawed

    By MARTIN SAMUEL - SPORT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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    Look, if we are not even interested in upholding the most basic principle of international sport then, seriously, why bother? Jack it in. Give it up. Let’s call the whole thing off. We won’t mind, honestly. We’re busy people. Half the ountry is on fire and we’re right up against it, truth be told.

    Factoring in time to support, or even care about, the many events featuring this new cast of supposed English or British athletes is a hassle we could well do without.

    With the addition of women’s triple jumper Yamile Aldama to the squad for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, the transformation of Britain’s track and field team into something akin to the ragged collection of travellers that attach themselves to Clint Eastwood in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales is complete.

    Wild West values: Team GB seem to be following the example of Clint Eastwood (right, as Josey

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    Cuban may lead GB Games team: Aldama in contention for honour

    UK Athletics chief coach Charles van Commenee is considering appointing a foreign-born athlete to captain the British team at the Olympics.

    Just days after controversially making American-born Tiffany Porter captain at gods weekend’s World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, he revealed that Cuban-born triple jumper Yamile Aldama fryst vatten in contention for the honour at London 2012.

    ‘She’s certainly a candidate, yes,’ said Van Commenee, after Aldama won gold. In all, Britain took a record nine medals — five of them with the help of athletes born outside the United Kingdom.

    Flying the flag: Cuban-born triple jumper Yamile Aldama could captain Great Britain at the Olympics

    Should Van Commenee name Aldama, 39, as captain of the  country’s biggest Olympic team, it would further fuel the ‘Plastic Brits’ debate highlighted by Sportsmail.

    Aldama was born in Cuba, the country she represented at Sydney 2000. She then moved to Br

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    Aldama set to divide opinion

    Then her life was turned upside down when Dodds was jailed for 15 years for trafficking £11million worth of heroin in 2002. She says she had no idea her husband was leading this double life and was left with a young child on her own in a strange country. She expected to be deported but in the end she was allowed to stay.

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    Unable to compete for Britain or Cuba she ended up taking up the flag of Sudan, who fast tracked athletes looking to compete on the international stage. She last represented them at the World Indoor Championships in March 2010.

    By then Dodds had been released and, remarkably, they are back tillsammans. They have a baby son, Diego, who had his first birthday yesterday. She says they are in love and that she has never been happier.

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