The Cuban team of the Alazanes Granmenses fell 0-1 against Curacao to record its fourth successive failure and say goodbye to the medal competition at the Haarlem Baseball Week tournament, held at the Pim Mulier stadium in the Netherlands.

The Cuban delegation that will participate at the 18th World Athletics Championships, to be held in Eugene, United States, July 15-24, will travel today to that nation, with 16 athletes.

With a record of three successive defeats, the Cuban team of Alazanes Granmenses will face Curaçao today in a do-or-die game at the Haarlem Baseball Week tournament, held at the Pim Mulier stadium in the Netherlands.

Cuban Grandmaster (GM) Omar Almeida occupies the top position on his team and will face the seventh round of the Benasque Open as opponent of the Spanish International Master (IM) Alejandro Alvarado.

Cuba defeated the Dominican Republic 3-0 in the beginning of the men's Final Six Pan American Cup, held until next Sunday at the Amado Nervo Auditorium in the Mexican city of Tepic, Nayarit.

Cuban fencers Dariel Carrion and Leidis Mari Veranes will contest the World Fencing Championship to take place July 15-23 in Cairo, Egypt.

Dutch Olympic and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten, perennial leader of the world road cycling rankings, emotionally thanked her teammate, Cuban Arlenis Sierra, after winning the Giro d'Italia Donne.

Cuban Oniger Drake won three gold medals and one silver in the 88 kilograms (kg) bodyweight division at the Parapan American Open Weightlifting Championship in the U.S. city of St. Louis.

The Cuban volleyball team will debut today against the Dominican Republic in the first day of the Pan American Cup Final Six (m), to be held until next Sunday at the Amado Nervo Auditorium in the Mexican town of Tepic, Nayarit.

Intent on breaking Cuban team Granma Alazanes’ two-game losing streak, Jose Ramon Rodriguez will be the starting pitcher against Team USA today, the fourth day of the Haarlem baseball tournament.

Cuban judokas Idalis Ortiz and Ivan Silva finished second and third, respectively, in the last day of the Judo Grand Prix held in Budapest, Hungary, with the presence of 406 athletes from 61 countries.

Cuba will debut today in the first day of the Grand Slam of Budapest, Hungary, a competition that will host the Laszlo Papp Arena until next Sunday with the presence of 406 athletes from 61 countries.

Cuba will seek to remain undefeated today with its Santa Clara U12 team at the Caribbean Little League Baseball tournament, when it faces Curacao (B), in the closing of the group stage of the event, based in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Cuba is included in Group A of the V World Baseball Classic, scheduled March 9 to 21, 2023, with the participation of 20 teams organized in four groups and venues in Taipei of China, Japan and the United States.

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra, the best router of America in the last decade, said goodbye Thursday to the Giro d'Italia Donne, one of the three most important races of the world circuit, after suffering a fall on Wednesday.

Cuba’s U12 team Santa Clara will seek another victory today against the host Dominican Republic (A) in the Caribbean Little League Baseball tournament held in Punta Cana.