Jaime Poradius 16yearsold takes off his boxing gloves after a training session at the Salvador Allende Sports Complex on May 9 2015 in Alamar Cuba...
{"Image ImageDescription": "HAVANA, CUBA - MAY 09:  Jaime Poradius, 16-years-old, takes off his boxing gloves after a training session at the Salvador Allende Sports Complex on May 9, 2015 in Alamar, Cuba.  Alamar is a suburb of Havana. The town, which is about 30 minutes east of Havana, was built in the 1970?s when the city center to supply much need housing to the people of Cuba. The gym where kids work out here is run by a coach Lazaro Goyalo Perez Quintana. The gym is not much of a gym, but rather a small room under a now-empty Olympic size swimming pool. The room has one light, one punching bag, and a couple of bags filled with sand pinned up against the wall for the boxers to train with. \nAlthough baseball is known as the national sport of Cuba, boxing in the sport where they have achieved the greatest dominance at the Olympic Games. Since the 1968 Games, Cuba has won a total of 53 medals, and 33 of those have been gold medals ? no other country is even close to those numbers.  Boxing starts as early as eight-years old for boys in Cuba. Boys usually start out at a local gyms near their home. If they succeed at that gym, they are offered a spot at one of the boxing academies that are in each province around Cuba.  From there, the best fighters are selected to go work out at the Junior National team training center, and if they are lucky enough, they are then picked for the National team ? where there are only 12 spots available to represent their country at the Olympics.  (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2015 Getty Images"}