Outstanding Cuban weight lifter David Moya Rojas, renowned on the island and around the world, passed away Monday, Jit sports publication reported.

Cubans Dayan Viciedo and Ariel Martinez had dissimilar performances this weekend with their club Chunichi Dragons, in the postseason phase of the Central Zone of Japanese professional baseball.

Jasiel Rivero, top star of the Cuban basketball team, said that the players looked stronger and more motivated than usual despite losing 62-65 to Puerto Rico in the second qualifying round for the 2023 World Cup.

After winning the first stage on Wednesday and falling far behind in the second stage on Thursday, cyclist Luis Ramirez won Friday the third stage of the Tour of Cuba in the eastern region, which will have a new leader, according to the institutional press that accompanies the caravan.

Olympians Jorge Moises Campos and Daniela Fonseca and experienced players Livan Martinez and Idalys Lovet lead the Cuban representation that will compete at the Caribbean Table Tennis Championship, March 3-8 in Havana.

The Cuban men's basketball team will face its Mexican counterpart today in this city as part of the second qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup.

This February 23, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) will celebrate its 61st birthday and will do so as it has since its inception: advocating healthy sports as a right of all Cubans.

Cuban Omar Almeida will face today the eighth round of the Iberoamerican Chess Championship in the ninth position, but only half a point behind the leaders: Spanish Jaime Santos, Argentinean Sandro Mareco and Paraguayan Guillermo Vazquez.

 Of the four Cuban judokas today at the Grand Slam in Tel Aviv, Israel, only two passed the first bout, although they lost the second, a pattern in the four days of competition this season in two stops of the world circuit.

The Granma-Cerro Pelado 2022 International Wrestling Tournament has been cancelled, according to Cuban wrestling authorities.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket will face UCAM Murcia today, in one of the matches of the quarterfinal phase of the Copa del Rey basketball tournament in Spain.

With a mark of 4.55 meters (m), Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, London 2012 Olympic runner-up, finished sixth at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a gold category tournament of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

With a mark of 17.21 meters (m), Cuban triple jumper Lazaro Martinez had a golden debut at the current winter tour, winning in a clear way at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a tournament with gold category of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Led by world runner-up Ivan Silva and multiple Pan American medalists Arnaes Odelin and Maylin del Toro, 12 Cubans will compete in the Judo Grand Slam in Tel Aviv, Israel, attended by 306 athletes from 34 countries.

Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, second in the 2012 London Olympics, will compete today in the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meeting in Lievin, France, a gold category tournament of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Luis Ernesto Quesada keeps up his good pace and Carlos Daniel Albornoz had two consecutive wins: both are the best Cuban players in the Ibero-American Chess Championship held in Mexico City.