The Cuban national team will look for their second win in the competitive tour against teams from the Canadian-American (Can-Am) baseball League when facing the Trois-Rivieres Aigles.

The Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament, organized in the resort of Varadero, finished its first segment with foreign players heading its main pooles.

A hundred boats, mostly from the United States, will participate in the 66thErnest Hemingway International Billfish Tournament to run from this Monday through June 18th in Havana city.

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.