The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, congratulated today the team of Agricultores, champions of the 1st Elite League of Cuban Baseball.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) denounced today the discriminatory treatment to which Cuban baseball players and the national team are subjected by the license granted by the United States Government to the organizers of the 5th World Baseball Classic.

Cuba will participate with 10 athletes in the Grand Slam of Paris, scheduled to be held February 4 and 5 at the Accor Arena, according to the latest update of the International Federation's website.

Cuba qualified with its individual and team representatives for the chess tournament of the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 2023, scheduled for next summer.

A walk-off single by third baseman Osvaldo Abreu gave Team Agricultores a 7-6 victory over Portuarios in the seventh and final game of the 1st Cuban Elite Baseball League.

Cuban Greco-Roman wrestlers Luis Orta (67 kg) and Oscar Pino (130 kg) finished first on the final day of the Henri Deglane Grand Prix de France, held in Nice.

Cuban judokas will depart this Saturday for France, where they will be on a training base to meet with clubs in that country and compete in several tournaments in Europe, with the first one in the Grand Slam of Paris.

Cuban athletics will have a lot of competitions in this year’s winter tour, which starts on the 25th in Valencia, Spain, with the participation of our main figures in long, triple and high jump and track events.

Cuban Greco-Roman wrestlers Luis Orta (67 kg) and Oscar Pino (130 kg) will travel today to France to compete in the Grand Prix tournament, to be held in Nice on January 21 and 22.

Cuba has designed a short list of 25 rowers who are already training in the province of Villa Clara’s Hanabanilla reservoir with a view to the March qualifiers for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message to former baseball star Antonio Muñoz—nicknamed the Giant of the Escambray Mountains—on his 74th birthday and shared a video of an interview that the old player gave once in Miami and which the leader claimed to have deeply moved him.

The Grand Slam of Paris will be the first competition for Cuban judo in 2023, a year with an extensive international calendar, including the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador and the Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile.

Executives of Cuba’s Universidad del Deporte met with Roberto Escalante Semerena, Secretary-General of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL), who stated his interest in making the Cuban study center a member of his organization.

After the success of the 1st Karate-do Styles Cup in Cuba, held at the University of Sports during the weekend, its organizers intend to hold the second one with significant international participation.

Voted one of the best athletes of the province of Santiago de Cuba in 2022, 20-year-old Arturo Silot stands out as a promising talent of combat sports in Cuba.

The semifinal phase of the 1st Cuban Elite Baseball League will begin today with the Centrales vs. Portuarios matchup at the Victoria de Giron stadium in Matanzas(western Cuba), where the best team in seven games will come out on top.