Ministry of Sports inaugurates Juan Pablo Duarte 2025 Sports Games<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThese games, which bring together 2,300 Dominican athletes in 24 disciplines in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Providence, Boston, Connecticut and other places where Quisqueyan athletes reside, are endorsed by the Dominican Government through the Ministry of Sports and Recreation (MIDEREC), headed by Kelvin Cruz, who delivered the keynote speech at the opening of this sporting celebration of Dominican identity.\n\nThe Juan Pablo Duarte NY 2025 Sports Games are organized by the Dominican Sports Union NY, led by the experienced Evarito Madrigal. The organizing committee has businessman, sportsman, and community leader Roberto Rojas as general director and Pedro Pablo P\u00e9rez as technical director.\n\nIn lawn tennis, 7, 8 and 9 year old divisions, the girl Sabrina Fern\u00e1ndez advanced after dominating the match 4\/3 and 4\/2. In 10 years old, L\u00eda Mu\u00f1iz also advanced, finishing in first place with 4\/1 and 4\/3.\n\nYahil Osorio Tapia advanced to the semifinals in the 12 years category by dominating. In the same category, 12 years, advanced to the semifinals, but in the male branch, Samuel P\u00e9rez Serrata.\n\nAlso, the first day of basketball began at the Boch\u00e9 Garden court, on Amsterdam Avenue and 175th Street, in Manhattan, with competitions between the delegations of Boston, Manhattan and New Jersey.\n\nSwimming was developed in the modern Lehman College pool, as was the discipline of judo.\n\nJudo was held indoors at Lehman College with the participation of several competitors.\n\nVitilla, whose game is a cultural tradition in the Dominican Republic, is known for developing hand-eye coordination and reaction speed, and is a frequent training method among professional baseball players. It developed in upper Manhattan.\n\nThe competitions will be extended until August 30th.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York, USA – The Juan Pablo Duarte Sports Games, which were inaugurated on Friday, August 15 at Lehman College in The Bronx, have already begun, with competitions in various disciplines such as basketball, judo, swimming, vitilla, and tennis. You may be interested in:Ministry of Sports inaugurates Juan Pablo Duarte 2025 Sports Games These games, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":478875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[611,40231,17104,40853],"class_list":["post-478874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-miderec","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20zM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250817-WA0055.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250817-WA0055.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}