The wild-card series of the 57th Cuban National Baseball Series will begin today with the clashes between Granma and Villa Clara at Augusto Cesar Sandino stadium, in this city, and the other match to advance to the next stage will be between Artemisa and Ciego de Avila, always with the second teams as home-club.
The Cuban duos of Sergio Gonzalez-Nivaldo Diaz and Leila Martinez-Lidiannis Echeverria won their respective matches in the second day of the 21st stop of the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, based in Quinzhou, China.
Six Cuban volleyball players signed contracts to play in the 2017-2018 professional season in Argentina.
Havana, Cuba.-Baseball is one of the most affected sports by the blockade of Cuba maintained by the United States for more than 50 years, Cuban former baseball star Rey Vicente Anglada asserted today in this capital. ‘The blockade has affected us in a great extent and continues to do so,’ said the extraordinary second base […]
Havana, Cuba.-U.S. powerboat pilots, Nigel Hook and Jay Johnson, will try to set two world speed record on the Key West-Havana and Havana-Key West routes today. According to the organizers of the Lucas Oil Ocean Cup event Key West to Cuba, the Lucas Oil SilverHook powerboat, piloted by Hook and Johnson, left Key West early […]
London, Great Britain.-Cuba managed today to place its three representatives in the final of the triple jump for men corresponding to the World Cup of London 2017, and they will be the only Latin Americans in the dispute of medals of this. Cristian Nápoles achieved the best record, on having jumped 17,06 meters (fourth place […]
Havana, Cuba.-The 4th edition of the International Mandela Day Mini-Marathon was officially announced by Patrick Rankhumice, charge d”affaires of the South African Embassy in Havana and Carlos Gattorno, Marabana President. ‘For us it is vital to celebrate once again this four-kilometer mini-marathon in Havana and to honor along with the Cuban people the legacy of […]
North Carolina, United States.-Despite winning the last four games against Cuba, the executive director of USA Baseball, Paul Seiler, says that to confront Cubans in this popular sport is a thermometer for the United States. ‘We measure the competitive level of our team according to its result in the competition with Cuban selections, that is […]
North Carolina, United States.-Cuba and the United States are starting in several North Carolina locations the sixth baseball cap, considered a national sport and cultural heritage in both countries. The baseball series between the Cuban national team and the national university of the United States, two of the world powers in this sport discipline, began […]
Havana, Cuba.-A Cuban baseball team is training at the Havana Latin American Stadium, to compete at the Inter-Ports Baseball Tournament of Rotterdam, Holland, a competition in which Cuba has been the champion in 10 times, in the 15 editions of the event. The Cuban team will start competition on July 1st, playing against Curazao at […]
According to the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation, the upcoming Caribbean Series will be held in Mexican land to replace Venezuela, which had been selected months ago to organize the event.
Cuban former volleyball Mireya Luis has a new challenge in her agenda, because she is from now the head of the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA).
The organizing Committee of the Seventh International Convention on Physical Activity and Sports, confirmed this Tuesday the attendance of over one hundred and seventy foreign delegates from twenty-two countries, a figure far superior to that of just two years ago.
Havana, Cuba.-Almost half a hundred Cuban athletes from seven different disciplines are currently playing under contracts in 11 nations, protected by legal rules and by the principle of protecting the athletes. The President of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), Antonio Becali, stated: ‘We are moving forward step by step, not […]
Baseball was kept away from the Olympic Games, given the fraction between professionalism and amateurs, Italian Riccardo Fraccari said
Cuban former high jumper Javier Sotomayor said this Friday he will continue feeling as a world record holder until someone jumps 2.46 meters, in reference to the possibility of erasing his mark
Havana, Cuba.-Members of the Cuban boxing franchise participating in the 2017 edition of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) assured that they are ready today overcome the challenge in the match against the Uzbekistan Tigers in the quarterfinals of the 4th edition. ‘Now we are are at home. The boys have the disposal to give […]
Declaration of the Cuban Olympic Committee We have been very aware of the proposal promoted by the European Athletics Federation that would withdraw the world records imposed before 2005, due to changes in anti-doping regulations. The Cuban Olympic Committee considers that any such measure should be supported by scientific arguments, because only the rigorous demonstration […]
The thirty-seven athletes chosen to form Cuba´s team to 2017 Can-AM independent Baseball League begins their training on Tuesday at the Latin American Stadium in Havana.
Havana, Cuba.-Around 200 yachts will take part in the regatta to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Hemingway International Nautical Club of Cuba (CNIH) on May 19, along three nautical miles off the Malecon sea drive in Havana. The CNIH also announced that it would hold a series of nautical events, in which yachts in […]
