After making a good impression in its first two events of the winter season, Cuban track and field athletes will face a "busy" February as part of the pre-selection trains in Europe and goals are set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Cuban athletes Juan Miguel Echevarría and Liadagmis Povea led the long jump and the triple jump at the Karlsruhe meeting in Germany, the first stage of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2021.

Following the measures implemented in Cuba to combat COVID-19, the baseball teams that qualified to the play offs will see action in two bubbles from this Tuesday in the Cienfuegos and Santi Spiritus provinces.

Cuba's chances of participating in collective sports at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, put off until next summer due to the COVID-19 situation worldwide, were reduced to baseball and women's beach volleyball.

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) released on Thursday a press release informing about the suspension of national and international tournaments scheduled for the first quarter of 2021, taking into account the COVID-19 pandemic.

The seventh place of the judoca Maylin del Toro was the best for Cuba today, in the second day of the Doha Master, Catar, held in the Lusail Multipurpose Sport Arena.

 Cuban judokas who will participate in the Doha Qtar Master will wait for the second day of the competition, scheduled for Tuesday at the Nippon Budokan.

More than 730 PCR samples for the diagnosis of COVID-19 patients were processed in the new molecular biology laboratory in this city(eastern Cuba), at the close of the previous day, during the test phase before the beginning of its definitive operation.

Authorities from Serbia and Cuba discussed on Monday the possibilities of cooperation in the field of sports and agreed on the convenience of advancing in joint projects in the next year 2021.

Alarms went off and after hours waiting for the diagnosis, the Cuban National Baseball Commission confirmed that five players of the team Industriales tested positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid- 19.

The national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), Gerardo Hernandez, presented a donation of 800 Canadian bats for baseball in Havana.

When 16 of Cuba's leading boxing stars step into the ring today at the Sport Palace Rafael Fortun in this city(eastern Cuba), the first stars in each weight category will begin to be defined for the pre-Olympic tournament in the Americas, which will be a preliminary qualifier for the Games in Tokyo.

Cuba got its third win today after a 4-0 victory over Turkey, two during the sixth and penultimate qualifying day of the online chess olympiad for people with disabilities, and moved up to 26th place in the ranking led by Russia.

 Cuban weightlifters Jorge Alejandro Rodriguez, Yasunay Garrido and Lesther Fernandez will compete today in the Pan American Junior Championship, on the fourth and penultimate day of an online competition where the island has won five medals.

For the first time online, the International Congress Cubamotricidad 2020, which will be held at the Havana Convention Center on December 4 and 5, will be a space for the exchange of experiences and research regarding physical activity and sports.

Osvaldo Vento, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), regretted Wednesday on Twitter the death of Diego Armando Maradona, a friend of Cuba and Fidel Castro.