Cuba achieved a silver medal and a fifth place at the opening stage of the 2018 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour hosted by Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra finished eleventh in the Amstel Gold Race, in Holland, seventh stop of the 2018 UCI Women´s World Cycling Tour.

Nicaragua women's soccer squad beat 2-1 Cuba in the second and last friendly match these two sides held at Havana´s Pedro Marrero stadium.

The Cuban duos made up by Karell Peña and Daisel Quesada, and Leila Martinez and Maylen Delis will compete from today and until next Sunday in the North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) beach volleyball circuit, based in the island of San Marcos, Mexico.

The Cuba Domadores appear as favorite over the Colombia Heroicos in the final match for group A of the 8th World Series of Boxing (WSB) to take place next Friday.

Cuban Alfredo blasted his second homerun in the recently started 2018 season of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Cuba was included in the tough Poole B of the 2018 Women's Baseball World Cup, which will be held at the Space Coast Complex, in Viera, Florida, United States, from next August 22 to 31.

PhD. Antonio Becali, president of the Cuban Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), held a fruitful meeting with Tsunekazu Takeda, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, as part of his working visit to that country.

With an excellent performance in the second half, the Cuban women's soccer team beat 4-2 Nicaragua, in the first of two friendly matches based at Havana´s Pedro Marrero stadium.

After nine games, Cuban Alfredo Despaigne blasted his first homer in the Japanese professional baseball league (NPB), but he could not avoid the 1-4 loss of his team, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra will try to improve her performance in the 2018 UCI World Tour when attending the Amstel Gold Race, in the Netherlands, seventh stop of the circuit.

PhD. Antonio Becali, president of the Cuban Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), described as "academic activity" the meeting held in Tokyo with Cuban baseball players hired by clubs of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

Cuban Osniel Solis will compete today in the first day of the Judo Grand Prix of Antalya, Turkey, from April 6 - 8, contest attended by 319 judokas from 50 countries in search of points for the world ranking.

Nine Cubans are already in the United States to compete in the 2018 Freestyle Wrestling World Cup of Iowa, on April 7th and 8th.

Tsedenbal Tsogzolmaa, Mongolia´s Minister of Education, Culture, Science, and Sports, received PhD. Antonio Becali, Cuba´s president of INDER (National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation), in the Government Palace of that country.

The first secretary of the Cuban Young Communist League, Susely Morfa described as crucial the role of young generations in the economic, social changes taking place in the country.