2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/152031We prove that Riemannian metrics with an absolute Ricci curvature bound and a conjugate radius bound can be smoothed to having a sectional curvature bound. Using this we derive a number of results about structures of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds.15 pages, latexDifferential Geometrytext