The Cuban baseball team was once again unproductive when it comes to the crunch and fell 5-6 to Canada in its second loss in a row, and thus bid farewell to Americas Olympic baseball qualifier held in Florida, United States.

Two-time world taekwondo champion Rafael Alba, from Santiago de Cuba, will compete in the Pan American Championship, which will begin on Wednesday in Cancun, Mexico, and will also feature Cuban Yadier Limonta in the 87-kilogram division.
The tournament will serve especially as a test for Alba, the only Cuban taekwondo athlete to qualify for this summer's Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Two-time World Champ Cuban Taekwondo specialist Rafael Alba will contest the Pan-Am championship to kick off Wednesday in Cancun, Mexico.

Maintaining their good positions to be included among the eight finalists will be the goal today of some of the Cubans who will face the third individual round of the FISU America Chess tournament, organized online by the International University Sports Federation of the continent.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Hereda San Pablo Burgos will have their first play-off match today against Lenovo Tenerife, in the beginning of the quarterfinals of the ACB basketball league in Spain, one of the strongest in the world.

Despite hitting 10 hits and playing immaculate defense, the Cuban baseball team fell today 5-6 to Venezuela and saw how its action in Group B of the Pre-Olympic Tournament of the Americas in Florida, United States, got complicated.

The Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) denounced irregularities that it considered unacceptable in the context of the pre-Olympic tournament of the Americas, hosted by the city of West Palm Beach, in the U.S. state of Florida.
The following is the full note, sent to the authorities of the World Baseball and Softball Confederation (WBSC), and published by the Jit newspaper in its digital edition.

Supported by Cuban slugger Yordanis Samon, the Cuban baseball team defeated the Dominican Republic 9-4 on Thursday, in a practice game five days before its debut in the Pre-Olympic Tournament of the Americas in Florida, United States.

Cuban discus throwers Yaime Perez and Denia Caballero will compete today in the second stop of the Wanda Diamond League 2021, to be held in Doha, Qatar.

Cuban Rafael Manso was re-elected in the executive committee of the Panamerican Judo Confederation (CPJ), in its ordinary general congress held online.

The Cuban boxing team led by its captain Julio Cesar La Cruz, four-time world and Olympic champion, will travel today to the Mexican city of Aguascalientes, the second of its three destinations in a profitable tour of preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The Cuban Baseball Federation informed that the player Cesar Prieto Echevarria left the delegation attending the pre-Olympic tournament in Florida, United States.

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) will hold today a race-hike for Challenge Day, established in 2003 to encourage people to get moving for the sake of their health.

Cuban parajudokas Gerardo Rodriguez, Isao Cruz and Yordani Fernandez will debut today in the second and last day of the Grand Prix of Baku, Azerbaijan, where 187 athletes from 38 countries are competing.

The Cuban baseball team will leave this Wednesday for Florida, United States, to take part in the pre-Olympic tournament of the Americas that will be played from May 31 with the presence of eight teams divided into two groups.

The Cuban boxing team led by its four-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist captain Julio Cesar La Cruz, is training hard these days in Germany, the first of its three destinations in a useful tour in order to get in good shape for the very near Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.