.c The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Two Cuban swimmers took their clothes, a few belongings and $100 from their coach's wallet, then disappeared while on a training trip in Puerto Rico, an official said Wednesday.
Nubis Rosales and Daimara Munoz, gold-medal winners at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games, disappeared Tuesday night in Vega Baja, about 20 miles west of San Juan, said Jose Aviles, vice president of the Puerto Rican Swimming Federation. Forty-three Cubans defected during that 1993 competition.
Aviles said the women were participating in an exchange program for athletes and were training for the Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in August in Venezuela.
Police and immigration officials were looking for the swimmers, Aviles said.
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