Top Cuban boxers defect in Brazil

"We gave them permission to go out last night and they did not return," Maximiliano Gonzalez Diaz, president of Cuba's National Boxing Commission, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in Rio. "It is very sad."

It has almost been ruled out that Rigondeaux and Lara may have been the victims of a crime in the violent Brazilian city.

Instead, it seems likely that they have increased to four the number of Cuban athletes who have defected during the Pan American Games, which began July 13 and are set to end Sunday. link