The 2-1 US victory at Captain San Luis stadium, in Pinar del Rio, allowed that squad to win the baseball friendly match against Cuba.

Preparation of Cuban athletes installed at the villa and other training bases marches as conceived for the stage prior to the start of 31st Olympiad.

Cuba will face today the Dominican Republic, in game of unbeaten teams for the top of Group A in the 2016 NORCECA Women´s U20 Volleyball Continental Championship, held in the United States.

Cuba will debut versus the Dominican Republic in the first game of the Caribbean Baseball Series, event that will take place from February 1 to 7, 2017, in the Mexican city of Culiacan.

The national Cuban team and the national university squad from USA will hold the traditional friendly baseball match, agreed to five games from July 23 to 27, in several provinces of the island.

The Cuban futsal pre-selection, made up by 16 players, will leave today to Chile, where it will play six friendly matches as training for the World Cup, based in Cali, Colombia, in coming September.

He was the favorite and proved it: Cuban Maykel Masso is the new universal monarch in long jump when reaching eight meters at the World Junior Championships taking place in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Drawing in the last round with the champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave left Cuban Leinier Dominguez in second seat in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, in Germany.

Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, London 2012 Olympic silver medalist, won the gold medal with record for the event in the International Athletic Meeting in Padua, Italy, when reaching 4.71 meters high.

The members of the Cuban delegation to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games said they were confident on their victory in Brazilian soil.

1 512 contestants from 157 countries have confirmed so far their presence in the World Junior Athletics Championship starting on Tuesday in Bydgoszcz, Poland, including 14 Cubans.

Cuban Leinier Dominguez reached 2.5 units of possible four in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, in Germany, after signing peace with U.S. Fabiano Caruana.

Villa Clara´s forward Roberney Caballero, who is only 20, was elected MVP of Cuba´s 101 st National Soccer Championship, event in which that same team won is 14th scepter.

After two consecutive draws, Cuban Leinier Dominguez defeated Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov in the third round and now appears as one of the leaders of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, in Germany.

Cuba won the silver medal of the U21 NORCECA Men´s Volleyball Continental Championship, based in the Canadian city of Gatineau, when losing to the United States.

Cuba reached the semifinals of the U21 NORCECA Men´s Volleyball Continental Championship when defeating Canada, on the last day of the preliminary stage of the contest.