The presence of Luis Oliva will be the great novelty with which the Cuba Domadores will face today the Uzbekistan Tigers in the Sports City for the start of the semifinal of the 6th World Series of Boxing.

The saber fencer Yoandry Iriarte, only Cuban qualified for the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro in fencing, will be present at the Pan American Championships of that sport which will host Panama, next June.

The Cuban pairs made up by Karell Peña-Daisel Quesada and Lianma Flores-Leila Martinez won the titles of the sixth stage of the North, Central American and Caribbean (NORCECA) Beach Volleyball Circuit, held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Cuban Leinier Dominguez recovered from his initial loss and beat local Igor Lysyj during the second day of the Russian Team Chess Championship 2016, tournament held in the city of Sochi.

Cuban Manrique Larduet won the silver medal in parallel bars with score of 15,475 units in the FIG World Challenge Cup held in the Croatian city of Osijek.

Catcher Frank Camilo Morejón and pitchers Ian Rendon and Noelvis Entenza formalized their contracts with the Kitchener Panthers, team belonging to the Interstate Independent League of Canada.

Cuban Olga Echenique appears ninth in the fifth and penultimate stage of the Gaes Titan Desert by Garmin 2016 held in Morocco with time of 27: 52.40 hours.

Cuban Asley González, London 2012 Olympic silver medalist and world champion of Rio de Janeiro 2013 in the 90 kilos, will be absent from the Pan American Judo Championships, which will continue today at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana.

Cuba won four bronze medals in Kata events of the Pan American Judo Championships, which takes place until next Saturday at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana.

Antonio Becali, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), reaffirmed Cuba's will to be among the top 20 in the Olympic Games to be held next August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Two male volleyball teams from Cuba and the US will soon hold two matches in Havana as part of their training for Rio 2016 and to resume bilateral exchange practiced during the 1980s.

In order to accumulate the most points for the Olympic ranking, four members of the Cuban women's national road cycling team will participate from May 19 to 22 in the Pan American championship of that sport, in Tachira, Venezuela.

With the goal of earning at least a ticket for the 2016 Summer Olympics, six Cuban fencers travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica, home of the continental qualifying tournament.

Cuban Leslie Amat will depart this week to the Chinese city of Chengdu to take part in the next Triathlon World Cup, which will grant valid points for qualifying to Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games.

Pinar del Rio beat Ciego de Avila 8-7 and added its second victory against three losses in the final play off, intensifying thus the fight for the title of the Cuban baseball championship in its 55th edition.

The Cuban futsal team will depart today for Brazil, where it plans to play six friendly matches as training for the CONCACAF WC Qualifying tournament, which will be settled in Costa Rica, from next May 8 to 15.