US Athletics Delegation Offers Clinics in Cuba. Former triple jumping stars, Willie Banks and Kenny Harrison, lead a U.S. athletics delegation visiting Cuba to offer clinics to coaches and athletes and initiate an exchange, Radio Havana Cuba reported on Friday. The North American delegation already had a meeting on Thursday with the president of the Cuban Federation of the discipline (FCA), Alberto Juantorena, to specify details of the agenda in Cuba. According to former athlete and FCA advisor Lázaro Betancourt, guidelines for future exchanges were also outlined and the US former jumpers expressed their satisfaction at being able to exchange with Cuban athletes and coaches, especially in the triple jump area, in which the Caribbean country is a world power. In addition to Banks, former world record holder (17.97m), and Harrison, Olympic champion of Atlanta 1996 and one of the five athletes to overcome the 18m barrier with 18.09, the US delegation is made up of several coaches and young jumpers.
