(8 Aug 2007)
1. Various of newspaper headlines showing article by Cuban leader Fidel Castro
2. Wide shot exterior Cuban boxer Guillermo Rigondeaux's family apartment
3. Rigondeaux and family standing on porch
4. Rigondeaux with family inside apartment
5. Close up of trophies
6. Close up of World Champion belt
7. Close up of trophies
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer:
"I always had the disposition, as always, to return to the homeland. People shouldn't think I was planning to stay; I am very revolutionary."
9. Zoom in of Rigondeaux and family on couch
10. Medium of trophies and World Champion belt
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer:
"There was some ill discipline on our part and we realised we were wrong and returned to the homeland."
(Q: Reporter: "Do you know what you're going to do now?)
"I am waiting for reorientation. I have the greatest disposition and am awaiting the reorientation from my superiors in order to fulfil the tasks that are asked of us."
12. Rigondeaux and family sitting on couch
STORYLINE
Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Wednesday that Havana may not send boxers to the world championship in the United States and other qualifying events leading up to next year's Beijing Olympics to prevent possible defections.
Castro wrote in a column published in official newspapers that two Cuban boxers who disappeared during the Pan American Games in Brazil last month only to be arrested and sent back to the island had reached the point of no return with the national boxing team.
In the article the ailing leader said that an athlete who abandons his delegation is not unlike the soldier who abandons his fellow men in the midst of combat.
Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuba's top boxer and a two-time Olympic bantamweight champion, and Erislandy Lara, an amateur welterweight world champion, arrived on Sunday in Cuba.
They were sent to state guest houses for more than two days, then released while the communist government decides what to do with them.
Rigondeaux returned to the Havana apartment he shares with his family on Wednesday, saying he never intended to defect.
"I always had the disposition, as always, to return to the homeland. People shouldn't think I was planning to stay," Rigondeaux told The Associated Press at his apartment.
He called his disappearance in Brazil a moment of great "ill discipline" and said he supports Castro's Cuban revolution wholeheartedly: "I am very revolutionary," he said.
The boxer's relatives said they never doubted he would return, even painting his home and preparing to feast on a pig to celebrate his homecoming.
Castro said Cuban officials were compiling the list of fighters for the 2008 Olympics, a squad that was scheduled to compete in the amateur world championships in Chicago in October and two other qualifying events before heading to China.
Fidel Castro said Cuban sports officials hoping to prevent defections are "analysing all possible alternatives, including the option of changing the list of boxers or of not sending any delegation whatsoever, in spite of the penalties that may be in store for us".
Boxing is the sport in which Cuba wins the most medals in major international events. At the 2004 Athens Games, Cuba had five boxing golds among its total of nine.
German boxing promoter Arena had announced it signed Lara and Rigondeaux to five-year contracts, but the fighters were arrested in the coastal resort city of Cabo Frio for overstaying their visas.
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