{"id":118749,"date":"2026-05-21T04:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sports-rd150-million-final-for-santo-domingo-2026-athletes-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:59:55","slug":"sports-rd150-million-final-for-santo-domingo-2026-athletes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/sports-rd150-million-final-for-santo-domingo-2026-athletes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports: RD$150 Million Final for Santo Domingo 2026 Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kelvin Cruz Delivers RD$150 Million to the COD for the 2026 Games<\/h2>\n\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 Sports Minister Kelvin Cruz handed over RD$150 million to the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) this Wednesday. This sum corresponds to the fifth and final installment destined for the preparation of the athletes who will represent the Dominican Republic in the XXV Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026.\n\nWith this installment, the total amount allocated for the preparation of athletes amounts to RD$893.7 million.\n\nCruz presented a symbolic check to the president of the COD, Garibaldy Bautista, in an event where governmental support for high-performance athletes was highlighted.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;Today we are just delivering the sum of 150 million and it is already in the Committee&#8217;s account,&#8221; Cruz affirmed during the event.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Kelvin Cruz, Minister of Sports<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nGaribaldy Bautista, for his part, thanked for the support received and pointed out that these resources will be fundamental to strengthen the preparation of Dominican athletes for the regional event.\n\nOne of the main goals is to surpass the 111 medals obtained in the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games.\n\nFrom January 2025, the Ministry of Sports has doubled the salary of athletes in the national teams to ensure better preparation conditions.\n\nThe XXV Central American and Caribbean Games Santo Domingo 2026 will take place from July 24 to August 8 and will feature the participation of approximately 850 Dominican athletes, in addition to international delegations from about 36 countries.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Cruz Delivers RD$150 Million to the COD for the 2026 Games Santo Domingo \u2013 Sports Minister Kelvin Cruz handed over RD$150 million to the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) this Wednesday. This sum corresponds to the fifth and final installment destined for the preparation of the athletes who will represent the Dominican Republic in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[776,1622,1446,493],"class_list":{"0":"post-118749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-athletes","9":"tag-central-american-games","10":"tag-santo-domingo","11":"tag-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118749","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=118749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}