HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 12 (ACN) Cubans Yenigladys Suarez and Marino Heredia will travel today to Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, to compete in the Paratriathlon World Cup to be held March 15-26.

As reported from the headquarters by judoka Idalis Ortiz and doctor Uvelino Moreno, the preparation is going at full speed in Georgia with the destination of Tokyo 2020, Olympic Games postponed by the COVID-19 for next summer.

National Athletic Commissioner Yipsi Moreno said that Cuba expects to add more names to the list of 14 athletes already qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero and his club Hereda San Pablo Burgos will try to get another victory today in the second phase of the Basketball Champions League, in a match against CB Canarias in one of the highest level tournaments in Europe.

Cubans Juan Miguel Echevarría and Liadagmis Povea are among the 11 winners of direct tickets or wildcards for the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade 2022, after dominating their respective events in the winter circuit of the current season.

Cuba studied 17,577 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 997 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,428,864 samples taken and 51,587 positive.

As part of the improved protocol for the confrontation of COVID-19, which begins today in Havana, Nasalferon will be applied to contacts of positive cases and to their cohabitants isolated in their homes.

Cuba was invited to the baseball tournament of the First Pan American Junior Games, agreed for the Colombian city of Barranquilla, sub venue of the event to be held from September 9 to 19 with main scenarios in Cali and Valle del Cauca.

Led by multi-champion sprinter Omara Durand (T-12/deep visual impairment), some Cuban para-athletes will compete in the Tunis Grand Prix to be held from March 18 to 20.

The Hereda San Pablo Burgos club, where Cuban Jasiel Rivero plays, will have a tough test tomorrow against Real Madrid, leader of the ACB basketball league in Spain with 20 wins and just one loss.

Cuban rowers committed to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, postponed for next summer, are already in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, venue of the Americas Olympic qualifier, and going through the quarantine-isolation process imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cuban triple jumper Liadagmis Povea finished on Wednesday in third place in her event at the athletics meeting held in Madrid, Spain, where she achieved a mark of 14.02 meters (m).

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría and triple jumper Liadagmis Povea will participate today in the athletics stop to be held in Madrid, Spain, at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero recalled on Tuesday that historic Revolution leader Fidel Castro was the first promoter of the Cuban sports movement, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Cuban National Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute (INDER).

On February 23, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) will celebrate its 60th birthday and it will do so as it has since day one: pledging its commitment to one of the Cuban people’s rights: the healthy practice of sports.

Cuban Jasiel Rivero confirmed himself as the second best Latin American player in the ACB basketball league in Spain, considered the highest level in Europe.