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Maricet Espinosa González, Olympian and Cuban Judo Champion, Dead at 34

The athlete competed at the 2016 Olympic games.

The Cuban Sports University also posted about González's death, noting that it felt "great pain" upon hearing the news. "On behalf of our teachers, workers and students we extend our deepest condolences to their families, friends and colleagues," the Facebook post read, via translation. She competed all over the world -- in Lima, Peru, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Tokyo, Japan, among others -- for more than a decade before retiring in 2017.

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