{"id":108092,"date":"2026-02-12T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cruz-delivers-supplies-to-boxing-and-handball-abinader-assures-teo-cruz-coliseum-untouchable\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:38:44","slug":"cruz-delivers-supplies-to-boxing-and-handball-abinader-assures-teo-cruz-coliseum-untouchable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/cruz-delivers-supplies-to-boxing-and-handball-abinader-assures-teo-cruz-coliseum-untouchable\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz delivers supplies to boxing and handball; Abinader assures &#8220;Teo&#8221; Cruz coliseum untouchable"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Abinader Ensures Preservation of the &#8220;Teo&#8221; Cruz Boxing Coliseum<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, has guaranteed the permanence of the Carlos \u201cTeo\u201d Cruz boxing coliseum. The sports facility, a symbol of Dominican sports, will not be affected by the works of the new Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium in Ensanche La Fe.\n\nThe president&#8217;s statement came during a telephone conversation with the Minister of Sports and Recreation, Kelvin Cruz. The dialogue took place after an equipment delivery event to the Boxing and Handball associations of the Santo Domingo province.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Don&#8217;t get carried away by gossip, take what we say.<\/p><cite>Luis Abinader<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMinister Cruz, moments before the call, had addressed the rumors about a possible damage to the coliseum, assuring those present that the installation would be preserved.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Start Sports Support Program<\/h2>\n\n\nMinister Kelvin Cruz led the start of a sports equipment donation program. The first benefited associations were Handball and Boxing from the province of Santo Domingo.\n\nJos\u00e9 Carlos Agramonte Duval and Julio Recio, presidents of the Handball and Boxing associations respectively, expressed their gratitude for the donation, highlighting its positive impact on the development of these disciplines and on the athletes of the province.\n\nCruz emphasized that this support initiative will extend to other sports disciplines at the national level.\n\nThe minister recalled the achievements of handball and the historic contribution of Dominican boxing in multi-sport events such as the Central American and Caribbean Games, Pan American Games, and Olympic Games.\n\nIn the activity were present the Vice Minister of Sports, Franklin de la Mota; congresswoman Olfanny M\u00e9ndez; Edward Caraballo, director of Miderec in the province of Santo Domingo; Augusto Mart\u00ednez; William Cabral; F\u00e9lix D\u00edaz, Olympic boxing champion at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; and Tom\u00e1s Antonio Cruz.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abinader Ensures Preservation of the &#8220;Teo&#8221; Cruz Boxing Coliseum Santo Domingo \u2013 The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, has guaranteed the permanence of the Carlos \u201cTeo\u201d Cruz boxing coliseum. The sports facility, a symbol of Dominican sports, will not be affected by the works of the new Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium in Ensanche La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[4766,11813,10507,1991],"class_list":{"0":"post-108092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-abinader","9":"tag-boxing-coliseum","10":"tag-dominican-sports","11":"tag-kelvin-cruz"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}