Cuban flag will fly today in the Olympic Village, where a large part of the Cuban delegation, led by Mijail Lopez, flag bearer for the third consecutive time in this kind of events, is already staying.

A sculpture of Teofilo Stevenson, best amateur boxer in history and second to win three Olympic titles, will be displayed from August 13th in the only Wax Museum at Cuba, located in this city, capital of the eastern province of Granma.

Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said the main organizational threats were solved and predicted an Olympiad full of passion and joy.

After becoming four years ago the first Cuban table tennis player winning a game in Olympic Games, Andy Pereira expects having a better performance in the event that starts next Friday in this city.

The Dominican Republic won the gold medal in the 2016 NORCECA Women´s U20 Volleyball Continental Championship when beating the host United States, while Cuba finished third.

Cuba officially announced the inclusion of the women´s 4x400 m relay of the track team overlooking the Olympic Games, to be held from August 5 to 21 in this city.

Despite totaling negative balance of six goals for and 12 against, the Cuban futsal squad returns from Chile to this city with its goals met after playing four friendly matches in that South American nation.

Cuba will face Mexico today, in the quarterfinals of the 2016 NORCECA Women´s U20 Volleyball Continental Championship, held in the United States, after losing yesterday to the Dominican Republic.

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.