Cuba’s Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute (INDER) announced the suspension of international and national sports events originally scheduled for April.

Raúl Fornés, first vice president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder), said today at a virtual conference that Cuban sports face many difficulties due to the unjust economic, commercial and financial U.S. blockade,

A group of Cuban Parathletes arrived in the Arab Emirates capital Dubai Tuesday for a training season ahead of their contesting of the Tunis 2021 World Para Athletics Grand Prix scheduled March 18-20.

 Julio Mendieta, head coach of men's freestyle wrestling in Cuba, said in Havana that they aspire to go with five gladiators to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, for which they have already qualified three athletes.

The Cuban men's basketball team will not be able to attend the competitive window to be held in Puerto Rico next 15-22, as part of the qualifying tournament for the 2022 America's Cup.

Juan Miguel Echevarría achieved on Tuesday his second triumph of the winter season, materialized in his last attempt in the long jump, in the international meeting of Lievin, in France, another of the golden phases of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2021.

Cuba and Gambia signed a Sports Cooperation Agreement on Tuesday to further expand bilateral links in the sector.

Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria is one of the main attractions of the meeting Lievin Hauts de France Pas de Calais, where there will also be Cuban athletes Maikel Masso and Lester Lescay.

The Cuban Baseball Federation and the Cuban Olympic Committee strongly rejected on Friday statements issued by Juan Francisco Puello, commissioner of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation, CPBC, about the absence of Cuba at the Caribbean Baseball Series underway in Mazatlan, Mexico since January 31st to February 6th.

Raúl Fornés, first vice president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), stressed today that the essence of the sports organization's activity on its 60th birthday continues to be raising the quality of life of the population and, to that end, we must work to preserve both our health and our achievements in the last six decades.

Although he improved his mark of the current season with 2.31 meters, Cuban Luis Enrique Zayas could not retain the crown on Tuesday in the high jump meeting in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, one of the events of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2021.

After making a good impression in its first two events of the winter season, Cuban track and field athletes will face a "busy" February as part of the pre-selection trains in Europe and goals are set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Cuban athletes Juan Miguel Echevarría and Liadagmis Povea led the long jump and the triple jump at the Karlsruhe meeting in Germany, the first stage of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2021.

Following the measures implemented in Cuba to combat COVID-19, the baseball teams that qualified to the play offs will see action in two bubbles from this Tuesday in the Cienfuegos and Santi Spiritus provinces.

Cuba's chances of participating in collective sports at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, put off until next summer due to the COVID-19 situation worldwide, were reduced to baseball and women's beach volleyball.

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder) released on Thursday a press release informing about the suspension of national and international tournaments scheduled for the first quarter of 2021, taking into account the COVID-19 pandemic.