Cuba suffered its third defeat in four presentations at the Canadian-American (Can-Am) Baseball League when losing 7-1 to the Quebec Capitales.

The Cuban men's team departed to Osaka, Japan, to compete in the first weekend of second level preliminary Group B of the World Volleyball League, stage that will take place from June 17 to July 3rd, with two others stops.

Cuba will debut today against the local team in the women's basketball qualifying Olympic tournament, which will host France until June 19.

The seven Cuban shooters qualified to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will fight for reaching the finals of the strong event, and will face high level rivals, Rafael Guerra, president of the Cuban Sport Shooting Federation, told ACN.

The Cuban women's team will face Croatia today, at the beginning of the second weekend of the third level of the 2016 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, in a match which will take place in the city of Chiclayo, Peru.

Amos Mbayo Kitenge, president of the Olympic Committee of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) endorsed today in Kinshasa the will of his government to establish cooperative ties with Cuba, a nation that exhibits great development in sports.

Granma-Cerro Pelado International Wrestling Tournament will begin tomorrow in this city with the confirmation of more than 50 competitors from six countries, and the presence of major Cuban athletes.

Cuban Arlenis Sierra was chosen by the national cycling commission to represent the country in the women's road event in Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics next August.

The five Cuban judokas qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro continue training in Mexico led by Asley González, Olympic silver medalist in the 90kg division in London 2012.

Cuban baseball team will debut today versus the Quebec Capitales at the start of its tour of 19 games against squads of the Canadian-American League (Can-Am).

Alberto Puig, president of the Cuban Boxing Federation, said that the possibility of entering the women's event of this sport in upcoming international competitions is being studied.

Cuban taekwondo athlete Rafael Alba (+80 kilograms) will try to move up in the world rankings, in order to have a less complicated draw for the competition in the Olympics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The 11th American Continental Chess Championship that took place in San Salvador was won by Peruvian Emilio Córdova and Cubans that attended the event finished far from top and thus could not get tickets to the 2017 World Cup.

Antonio Becali, President of the Cuban National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym) heads a delegation to the United States, where they will fulfill an extensive working agenda.

The table tennis player Hugo Calderano kept the Brazilian supremacy in the ITTF 2016 Latin American Cups, when winning the title in the sixth edition of the event held in Guatemala City.

The Cuban men's volleyball team lost to the United States in the second and last friendly match between the two countries, with a stage at Havana's Sports City Coliseum.