He sold sausages, washed dishes in a World Cup and met Fidel: the memory of Hugo Scricky, Wynants’s DT

The orange Guayabera stood in the stalls. The Hugo, who was on the track, was running towards the mouth of the tunnel. That was the signal they had given him. The man would appear out there …

Hugo Scricky The perspiration of his forehead was taken out, he ran his hand down his pants and waited for the moment: Fidel Castro would pass by.

The history of the cyclist’s coach encounter Milton Wynantswinner of the silver medal in the 2000 Olympic Gameswith Fidel he is memorable and worthy. Hugo, who died in 2023, was an incredible character who went out of his cyclists as he narrated the day he fought with the owner of the wheels with which Wynants won the silver medal.

This story, which I narrated on the blog that tell her as they want, happened in 1991. Previous of the Havana Pan American Games, Cuba. Winter hit hard in Uruguay and it was impossible to train. Then the technician of the cycling team, Hugo Scricky, appealed to his acquaintances to prepare abroad. They went to Venezuela. There they met with local, Argentine, Chilean teams, Colombians already last moment appeared a Cuban team.

They competed every day in different places, which ensured adequate acclimatization.

It was there that Scricky met a beard man, who was with the Cuban delegation, who had the particularity that all he did was tell jokes. At the end of the competition the Cuban went to say goodbye to the Uruguayans: “Well, my brother, see you in Cuba,” he told them.

One day Hugo was with his boys training at the Havana velodrome and the Cuban appears. After the greetings of rigor to Scricky was given to look at the accreditation of man. “Marino Biologist said. I couldn’t believe! And I say: ‘Look I brought a lot of boys’ letters who have problems in view. What can be done?’

“There is no problem my brother, tomorrow I have to look for you very early through the village (Olympic) and we carry those letters,” The Cuban replied.

And so it happened. The next day they appeared before the head of a clinic who asked for a few days to study the cases. At the meeting, Scricky shot: “Che, they told me that the horse (nickname of Fidel Castro) is attending an event every day.”

“Yes, Thursday goes to the velodrome,” said the man.

“And how do I know if it gets found?” Asked Milton Wynants.

“You are going to see some with an orange guayabera, well, when they stop, it’s because it will leave (Fidel) through the tunnel.”

Scricky retired and subsequently commented on the details of that talk with Ildefonso Soler.

That Thursday of 1991 Hugo Scricky went to the velodrome. I could not miss the appointment. I had never been so close to fulfilling the dream of meeting Fidel Castro.

The Hugo was on the track when he suddenly perceived the signal. The Orange Guayabera men stood up in the Reinaldo Pasiro Rodriguez velodromo plate. For a moment, Scricky forgot his cyclists and ran out.

“I settled at the tunnel door … and the man walking, huge, the beard was no longer so dense.”

At that moment Hugo appealed to the first thing that came out: “Long live Uruguay!” He shouted. Fidel stopped the march. He looked and went to the scricky meeting. “He came to greet and took pictures and everything,” said the coach in the juicy talk with exclusive rights.

Assemble the Fidel bike!

But look what destiny is. That day of 1991 the Argentine team ran the final persecution final against Chile. Most of those cyclists from the neighboring country ran through Dawn, the Scricky club. Argentina won the test. The award was held by the president of Cuba.

Fidel Castro went down to the track to deliver the medals and people began to shout: “Mounted the Fidel bike! Mounted the Fidel bike!”

Castro took the bicycle of the Argentine Erminio Suárez and passed his leg above. The stadium was falling apart. “And Erminio at that time looked at Marito Mancuso, who was the mechanic, and said: ‘Mario, that this bike does not touch anyone. Fidel got on.’

They throw Scricky

Culminated by the Pan -Americans of Havana, the delegation undertook the return to Uruguay. In full flight, the former number and driver of the Informative of Channel 12, Laura Daners, gave Scricky the news that she was going to be fired.

“The story ended as I had to finish, they were going to throw me away, there was no other. And I told Daners, what a problem I am going to have, I’m going home to work if I don’t live from this,” Scricky said.

Hugo went to his house in La Unión. Life gave rematch. In the 2000 Olympic Games he shared the happiness of the silver medal achieved by Milton Wynants being his coach.

With Wynants they lived them all … two years after being an Olympic medalist, Milton traveled to the World Cup in Denmark, and ended up washing dishes with his coach in the restaurant of a Uruguayan.

There they had been told that the 250 bus was free and always took it to go to train. The issue is that you could not climb with packages. What did they do? While Hugo gave the driver talk, Wynants passed back with the boxes.

Leave!

Years later Scricky moved away from the sport he loves. It was after an incident that lived in Colonia in a cycling return.

He climbed into the sausage car he had in the union. He was once with his lady. “There was no one on October 8, Sarajevo looked like that, and a man who was going with two children was approached and asked for a Pancho. And he asked me to cut it into three. There I said no more …”. “