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D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez congratulated the country\u2019s two Olympic winners, F\u00e9lix D\u00edaz and Gabriel Mercedes, who brought home gold and silver medals from Beijing this year. D\u00edaz won the top prize, a gold medal, in boxing and Mercedes took a silver medal in Taekwondo. <\/P> President Fern\u00e1ndez gave the two medal winners each a check for 75 million pesos, according to the President\u2019s press office.<\/P> President Fern\u00e1ndez congratulated the two athletes in a ceremony held in the Ambassador Hall of the National Palace where they were also received by the Vice President Rafael Alburquerque. President Fern\u00e1ndez gave the two medal winners each a check for 75 million pesos, according to the President\u2019s press office. \u201cI have been closely following the athlete\u2019s participation,\u201d said President Fern\u00e1ndez recalling the opening day of the Olympic Games which he watched on television with special attention for the Dominican delegation. He said there should be an increase in the number of medals won by Dominicans in the coming Olympics to be held in London in 2012 and he promised to do all he can to make that happen. President Fern\u00e1ndez said it is essential to support school, neighborhood and regional sports activities as a way of developing discipline and to keep children and teens away from bad habits. He added that participation in sports also promotes better health in Dominican young people. In addition to giving the two athletes apartments, President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez appointed F\u00e9lix D\u00edaz to First Lieutenant of the National Police and Gabriel Mercedes to Second Lieutenant in the Dominican Air Force. Trainers and coaches, Pedro Luis D\u00edaz, Juan Jos\u00e9 Anderson and Jos\u00e9 Mora were awarded 750,000 pesos each. The Dominican Boxing and the Taekwondo Federation were also given one million pesos each. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Government Awards Dominican Olympic Winners Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez congratulated the country\u2019s two Olympic winners, F\u00e9lix D\u00edaz and Gabriel Mercedes, who brought home gold and silver medals from Beijing this year. D\u00edaz won the top prize, a gold medal, in boxing and Mercedes took a silver medal in Taekwondo. President Fern\u00e1ndez gave the two medal … Continue reading “Government Awards Dominican Olympic Winners”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: August 29, 2008<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"