In order to avoid the coincidence with the Continental Championship of America, the organizers of the Capablanca in Memoriam Chess Tournament moved up the event to the second half of April.

A top-class pitching staff and a 27-year-old average age distinguish the roster of the Vegueros de Pinar del Río team, announced today, for the 61st National Baseball Championship (SNB by its Spanish acronym), which is scheduled to begin on January 23. Led by Alexander Urquiola, the team is made up of athletes and coaches with experience for several seasons in different categories, an important aspect to achieve a good performance this year and to improve the fourth place of the previous campaign.

In the presentation of its women's team, Spain’s emblematic and powerful multinational Movistar Team remarked that its roster is completed this year with the versatile and professional Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra.

Keeping and improving positive experiences from the previous December, related to the massive practice of physical activity, is one of the main premises of Sports in the Cuban province of Matanzas for 2022.

The baseball team of Holguin province(eastern Cuba) for the next National Championship was formed today at a meeting held at the Pernik Hotel in this city, with the presence of Ernesto Santiesteban, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in this territory.

The young Cuban canoeist Fernando Dayán Jorge was ready at the right time, the reason that he still dreams of the Olympic title recently won in the two-seater canoe together with the experienced Serguey Torres in the Tokyo Games.

His unexpected victory in the World Boxing Championship held last month in Budapest, Hungary earned middleweight Yoenlis Hernandez one of the Mentions awarded to Cuba’s Athletes of the Year 2021.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Valencia Basket will play today against Monbús Obradoiro, in the 13th game of the 13th round of the Spanish basketball league.

The Red Star club of Belgrade, with Cuban Cecilia Diaz Mesa as one of its offensive mainstays, will play the final of the Serbian Waterpolo Cup against the Vojvodina, the only team that has defeated them this season.

The British news agency Reuters reported on Tuesday that Cuba has immunized more citizens against COVID-19 than most developed nations of the world.

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation ( INDER by its Spanish acronym), with the collaboration of the Marabana-Maracuba Project, is calling for the 63rd Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution race, to be held from December 28 to 31.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted today on Twitter the election of Greco-Roman gladiator MijaIn LOpez as Best Male Athlete in the annual sports survey of the Prensa Latina news agency.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his Spanish club Valencia Basket will be looking for their fifth victory today in the Eurocup basketball tournament, which in terms of quality is only behind the Euroleague in the Old Continent.

Outstanding Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijain Lopez, four-time Olympic Champ, won the prize to the Best Male Latin American Athlete in the 57th edition of the traditional sports survey by Prensa Latina news agency.

Canoeing closed 2021 with outstanding performances at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Copenhagen World Championships and the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, enough to rank among Cuba's best sports.

Cubans Elisbet Gamez, Andrea Becali, Luis Vega and Adrian Navarro competed today in the first day of the 15th World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, an event in 25-meter pool, until December 21.