The Cuba Domadores will begin to defend their crown when receiving the Venezuela Caciques on February 3rd during the opening weekend of the 7th World Series of Boxing (WSB), announced with news that would allow the current champion to host the final.

The Cuban National Baseball Series will resume actions today through matches Matanzas-Villa Clara, Holguín-Camagüey, and Granma-Ciego de Avila, particular subseries that will take place in the house of those mentioned first.

The second edition of the Cuban Titan Tropic, a mountain bike competition, will start today and will include four stages through rugged territories between the provinces of Artemisa and Pinar del Rio.

Camagüey´s Adolfo Horta, triple world boxing champion, died on Monday night as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage for which he had been hospitalized since last Wednesday at the Intensive Care Unit of the Manuel Ascunce Doménech University Hospital.

Antonio Becali, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), affirmed that "Fidel is the Cuban sport" when assessing the impact of the death of the Commander-in-Chief in a sector to which he gave special attention.

Hammer thrower Yipsi Moreno now owns Cuba´s 78th Olympic title after the confirmation of the doping of Belarusian Aksana Miankova in Beijing 2008.

The Cuban duos of Nivaldo Díaz-Sergio González and Karell Peña-Daisel Quesada won on Sunday silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the last stop of the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit, held in Trinidad and Tobago.

Granma beat 8-7 Camagüey on Thursday, reaching thus its 39th victory in the current Cuban National Baseball Series and now appears third in the standings, sending Villa Clara, which lost to Ciego de Avila, to the 3rd seat.

The baseball team from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, will face a squad from Artemisa province academy in the first of five matches in Cuba.

World and Olympic medalists will meet from today and until the 26th at the Azerbaijan-based Wrestling Grand Prix, which is attended by 15 Cubans, including four women.

Four Cubans out of six won bronze medals yesterday at the Youth World Boxing Championship which runs until Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Cuba's top three duos will travel to Trinidad and Tobago today to compete from the 25th to the 27th in the final of the North, Central America and Caribbean (NORCECA) Beach Volleyball Circuit.

Adding two wins yesterday allowed Cuba to have six competitors today fighting for bronze medals in the Youth World Boxing Championship staged at the Russian city of St. Petersburg.

Ciego de Ávila swept Holguin by beating them 10-0 at Calixto Garcia Stadium as part of the second stage of the Cuban National Baseball Series.

José Ramón Fernández, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee, received in this city the Golden Button granted by the Madrid Marathon (MAPOMA by its Spanish acronym) to prominent personalities from the world of sport.

The five Cubans who climbed up to the ring achieved wins yesterday at the World Youth Boxing Championship staged at the Russian city of St. Petersburg.