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.

Cuba will face Canada on Friday in the quarterfinal stage of the 15th Women's Volleyball Pan American Cup, qualifying tournament for the 2017 Grand Prix that will conclude on Sunday in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Trying to repeat his title, Cuban triple jumper Lazaro Martinez will attend the U20 World Athletics Championships, to be held from July 19 to 24, in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Cuban wrestlers are in Spain to compete in the Grand Prix of that European nation to take place on July 9 and 10.
Cuba will attend that competition with its 10 wrestlers qualified to the Olympics, so it will be a good warm-up opportunity to face rivals at the highest level.