The Cuban team expected to compete in the Caribbean qualifier for the Little League Softball World Series for girls aged 9-10, to be held in Puerto Rico on July 14-18, could not travel to the venue because several members of the delegation were denied the visa.

Although only half a point behind the leaders, the Cuban chess player Carlos Daniel Albornoz finished in eighth place at the Valencia International Open.

The Santa Clara team, which will represent Cuba in the Latin American Little League Baseball Series for 9-10 year-olds, to be held in Mexico on July 20 to 27, was officially minted for the competition in a ceremony held at the Mausoleum of the Villas Front, next to the Commander Ernesto Che Guevara Sculptural Complex.

World runner-up Saidel Horta won his second fight at the Open Boxing Tournament in Guizhou, China, where his fellow countrymen Nelson Williams and Dayira Mesa also harvested victories in their debut.

The Cuban beach volleyball pair of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo won the gold medal in the tough 2025 Moscow Open tournament of the Russian Circuit.

Cuba will be present at the World Youth Chess Olympiad, to be held from August 16 to 23 in Barranquilla, Colombia, with two mixed teams, made up of players with strong performances in their categories.

Cuban men's team and host France will play a warm-up match today, looking ahead to the third and final week of the group stage of the Volleyball Nations League (VNL), which will be held starting July 16 in Gdansk, Poland.

With the announcement of its standard-bearers, qualified athletes and number of disciplines, Cuba is ready to participate in the U23 Junior Pan American Games, to be held on August 9-23 in Asuncion, Paraguay.

After a loss in their debut, Cuban national team will face Aruba today in the second round of the Little League Caribbean qualifying tournament, held in Willemstad, Curaçao, on the road to the World Series.

Cuba will debut today with five athletes at the Arcobaleno International Meeting in Celle Ligure, Italy, a Challenger category event on the World Athletics Continental Tour, seeking points for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Cubans Daily Cooper and Liadagmis Povea won bronze medals at the Sotteville-lès-Rouen International Meeting, held in France, as part of their preparation for the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Cuban La Lisa team will debut today against Pariba, representing host Curaçao, in the U12 Caribbean Little League Baseball tournament, which will award a spot to the World Series in Pennsylvania next August.

Cuban Yerisbel Miranda lost on Sunday to Uzbekistan's Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova and will need to strike back this Monday to stay in the Women's Chess World Cup 2025 in Batumi, Georgia.

Cuban beach duo of Noslen Diaz and Jorge Luis Alayo defeated Austria's Cristobal Dresler-Phillipp Weller 2-0 today in the Elite 16 tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland.

 Cuban beach duo of Noslen Díaz and Jorge Luis Alayo will seek to return to success today at the Elite 16 tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland, which is part of the 2025 Beach Pro Tour.

Cuban women's softball team suffered its second loss in a row on Thursday in the Super Round of the 11th Pan American Championship, after falling 0-4 to Canada in the Colombian city of Monteria.