Judoka Orlando Polanco will debut today in the first day of the Tbilisi Grand Slam, Georgia, the first of the three Cubans who will seek points in the qualifying event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, postponed to next summer.

Victim of its defensive inaccuracies and lack of teamwork, the Cuban national soccer team lost 0-1 to the local team of Guatemala on Wednesday at the Doroteo Guamuch Flores stadium, in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Cuban archer Hugo Franco advanced today to the third round of the Pan American Archery Championship in Monterrey, Mexico, where at the same time is held the pre-Olympic tournament that gives tickets to Tokyo.

Cuba will participate this Friday with five judokas in the Grand Slam in Tibilisi, Georgia, after three of the eight committed to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, postponed for next summer, tested positive to the COVID-19.

The Cuban national football team will debut today against the local team at the Doroteo Guamuch Flores stadium in Guatemala, in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The Cuban Basketball Federation announced on Tuesday that the women team will not be able to participate in the Central American and Caribbean Basketball meet due to the infection of some of its athletes with SARS-Cov-2.

Cubans Yenigladys Suarez and Marino Heredia will finish today their participation in the Paratriathlon World Cup in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, where they will compete in the 50-meter (m) mixed pistol in both sexes.

Cuba will participate with five women in the 4x400 meters (m) relay of the World Championship to be held in the Polish city of Silesia, on May 1 and 2, an athletics event to which more than a thousand athletes from 45 countries have already confirmed their participation.

The Cuban baseball pre-selection team, made up of 34 players, will begin training today at the Victoria de Giron stadium in Matanzas, in preparation for the upcoming Caribbean Cup to be held in Curacao April 17-23.

National baseball commissioner Ernesto Reinoso holds that the overall commitment is to recover the good results that this sport once boasted and the Cuban people miss so much.

With the goal of earning at least one ticket to Tokyo, Cuban archers will travel today to the Mexican city of Monterrey to compete in the continental archery tournament from March 21 to 28 against archers from another 22 countries.

Cuban fencers Yunior Reytor—silver medalist at the Peter Bayonki World Cup in Vancouver, Canada, in 2017—and Yamilka Rodriguez—bronze winner at the Guadalajara 2011 Pan American Games—are in Kazan, Russia, to compete in the Epee World Cup.

Cubans made their debut on Thursday at the Parathletics Grand Prix in Tunis, one of the qualifying tournaments for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, winning six medals.

The average of the Cuban baseball team is only 1.2 runs per game in the last five international events in which it has participated, and we must improve our level to recover the international results that the fans expect so much, considered today the national baseball commissioner Ernesto Reinoso.

Cuban fencers Yunior Reytor and Yamilka Rodriguez will compete beginning tomorrow in the Fencing World Cup to be held in the Russian city of Kazan until the 23rd, which will grant points for the world ranking.

Cuban sports para-shooters Yenigladys Suarez and Marino Heredia took training in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, as they prepare for the World Shooting Cup to be hosted by that Arab city till March 24.