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A 24-strong group of Cuban athletes will depart today for Brazil to participate in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games that will start on September 7.

In rematch, Cuban futsal team will play its fifth and final friendly match in Argentina facing the national side of that country, which already thrashed it 11-2 in its debut.

Worthy heirs of their people and determined to defend and keep the national flag high, Cuba's disabled athletes were officially bid farewell on Thursday to participate in the 15th Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cuban baseball player Alfredo Despaigne hit his twentieth homer of the season in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), Japanese baseball league, personal record at the tournament, and drove in three runs to help his team winning over the Seibu Lions.

With a harvest of five gold, two silver and four bronze medals Cuba ranked 18th in the overall standings of the 31st Olympic Games Rio 2016 that concluded last Sunday in that Brazilian city.

The activities of the Cuban delegation to the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro 2016 will begin on Tuesday with an artistic gala and a literary meeting at the recreational cultural center of the National Association for the Blind (ANCI) in Havana.

Cuban Leonel Suarez, World and Olympic medalist, finished sixth in decathlon, athletics event of the Olympic Games based in this Brazilian city that was won by American Ashton Eaton with 8 893 units.

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