The Cuban men's volleyball team finished on Monday in fourth place in the North, Central America and Caribbean Continental Championship (Norceca), after losing 1-3 in the bronze medal match against Mexico, held at the Auditorio del Pueblo in the city of Durango.

Cuba will dispute today the bronze medal against Mexico, after losing 1-3 in a duel of unbeaten teams against Puerto Rico in the semifinals of the men’s NORCECA Volleyball Continental Championship held in the Mexican city of Durango.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is in Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the 16th Paralympic Games, to be held this Tuesday at the new Olympic stadium in Tokyo.

The Cuban delegation was officially registered Wednesday for the 16th Paralympic Games scheduled to start on August 24 in this Japanese city.

Javelin thrower Yiselena Ballar, shot-putter Juan Carley Vázquez and sprinter Shainer Rengifo will give Cuba a shot at medals today at the 18th World Youth Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.

 The Cuban men's volleyball team defeated the Dominican Republic 3-1 on Wednesday in the first day of the NORCECA continental championship held in Durango, Mexico.

Cuba will face the Dominican Republic today in the first day of the men's NORCECA volleyball continental championship, to be held until next Monday in the Mexican city of Durango.

The Cubans Ronald Anthony Mencía (hammer throw) and Shainer Rengifo (100 meters) will debut today at the opening of the 18th World Athletics U20 Championships, held in Nairobi, Kenya, until the 22nd.

Cuba will have five representatives at the 18th World Athletics U20 Championships, to be held between 18-22 August in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Cuban Paralympic delegation that will participate at Tokyo 2020 will seek its traditional high-performance in the balance between athletes, medals and final placings, according to statements made by its chief coach Jorge Reinaldo Palma.

The Cuban embassy to Japan reported today on its social media that authorities of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation ( INDER by its acronym in Spanish) and the Cuban Institute of Sports Medicine visited the headquarters of the Japanese company Techno Link to strengthen cooperative relations in this sector.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are already history and for Cuban athletics that summer event left some joys, but also debts to be settled in the future.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated boxer Andy Cruz (63 kilograms), who won a gold medal at the Olympic Games and praised the fighter's bout, which closed the performance of the Caribbean nation in Tokyo 2020.

The newly crowned champion and Olympic record holder Fernando Dayán Jorge, and the world junior champion José Ramon Pelier, qualified today to the semifinals in the 1,000-meter single canoe at the Tokyo Olympics.

Cuban Reineris Salas (97) lost today 4-0 to Abdulrashid Sadulaev, representative of the Olympic Committee of Russia, and will have to go tomorrow to the bronze medal dispute in the wrestling tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Cuban two-time world champion Andy Cruz qualified to dispute the gold medal in the 63-kilogram division in the boxing tournament of the Tokyo Olympics, after disserting today in semifinal, with barrages of punches, against Australian Harry Garside.