These are former athletes and leaders of the sector who have raised the name of the Caribbean nation with their example in society and for their performance, said Momento Deportivo.

Among the players chosen are Adrián Beltré, Armando Benítez and Julián Heredia; Brígida Pérez (table tennis), Brenda Corrie (golf) and Lariza Díaz (basketball).

Joselito Ramos (softball), Dionisio Gustavo (karate), Robert Jiménez (paralympic sport) and Eliseo González (chess) were also selected.

The sports editor Leonardo de Jesús Heredia and the teacher and leader, Isaac Ogando, joined the above.

Monsignor Lorenzo Vargas asked for a more transparent sports movement and for greater support from the authorities to avoid a society that is less distracted and focused on good values, the newspaper noted.

The 12 athletes were perpetuated in the traditional ceremony -number 57 -of exaltation in the auditorium of the Pavilion of Fame and with them there are 429 who have earned a place in this place to immortalize the best athletes and propellers in history of national sport.

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