Shortly after dawn in Cuba today will be the opening ceremony of the 32nd Games of the modern Olympics in Tokyo, the first of its kind postponed due to the pandemic of COVID-19.

Although the seven Cubans who will participate in the boxing tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will fight for medals, it is true that the main cards of victory will be the captain and cruiser Julio Cesar La Cruz and the light welterweight Andy Cruz.

I assumed this debut as personal and of all Cuba with a lot of responsibility and commitment. I did my regatta, it was not the best, but I still want to grow tomorrow and wait for the results to happen, said rower Milena Venega Friday after finishing in fourth place in her elimination heat in the single sculls.

Those who come to Tokyo, walk down its streets or spend some time watching one of the myriad TV channels of the hotel where a group of Cuban press members are staying, will have to say that the Japanese capital does not seem to be enjoying its Olympic Games.

With a strong sense of responsibility, rower Milena Venegas will be the first Cuban athlete to see action in the 2020 Olympic Games on the July 23 qualifiers for women's single scull (1x), to be held at the Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay.

Cuban discus thrower Yaime Perez, already on Japan, is thrilled to have been chosen as one of the two Cuban standard-bearers, and the first Cuban female athlete ever, for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games.

Cuban shooter Eglys de la Cruz, third place in Beijing 2008, is ready to try out the electronic targets on July 24 at the Asaka Field in her fifth Olympic Games.

The 138th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) closed today with a historic choice: that of Brisbane for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Ludia Montero wants to make history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, just as she did in 2019 at the World Weightlifting Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, where she became the first Cuban female weightlifter to ever win a medal.

One of the main appetizers of each Olympic event are the global medal predictions, true studies that go as far as to place the names of potential winners on the podiums.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban prime minister, handed the banner today to the sports delegation that will represent the country at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, to be held August 24-September 5.

Cuba will attend with 12 wrestlers, including three women, to the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo, to be held from July 23 to August 8, with the commitment to maintain the chain of gold medals won by wrestling since Barcelona 1992.

Cuba will attend with 16 athletes and a guide to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, to be held from August 24 to September 5, according to Jorge Reinaldo Palma, technical chief of the National Department of Sports for People with Disabilities.
Palma told the sports publication JIT that the Cuban delegation will also include executives, coaches, medical and paramedical personnel.

The first group of Cuban athletes who will participate in the Olympic Games from July 23 to August 8 will leave today for the Japanese capital.

Cuba celebrated the advances of Lisandra Ordaz and Yasser Quesada to the second round in the Chess World Cup, underway in the Russian resort of Sochi, where Carlos Daniel Albornoz and Yerisbel Miranda failed to stay in competition.

Long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría, triple jumper Liadagmis Povea, as well as the 800 meter runners Rose Mary Almanza and Sahily Diago, are the four Cubans who will compete today in the sixth stop of the Wanda 2021 Diamond League in athletics, to be held in Monaco.