After leading the Cuban baseball championship for most of the season, Ciego de Avila accentuated its decline when losing 9-7 to Las Tunas to score thus its eighth defeat in the last 10 outings.

Upon completion of the eighth stage of the Guantanamo-Pinar del Rio-Havana Cycling Tour, a stretch of 73 kilometers from Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Artemisa´s José Mojica remains as leader of the competition.

The flyweight Yosbany Veitía and super heavyweight Leinier Pero will debut this Saturday at the 6 th World Series of Boxing (WSB) when the Cuba Domadores to face the local side of the Ukraine Otomans in the city of Kharkiv.

After six rounds, Cuban GM Maritza Arribas appears tied on top of the standings of the Continental Women's Chess Championship organized in Lima, Peru, with the local GM Deysi Cori and Colmbian IM Ángela Franco.

The Guantánamo -Pinar- Havana cycling tour reaches today its eighth stage which is a 60 km c ircuit on the Paseo del Prado promenade of Cienfuegos city.

Cuban Osleni Guerrero will be present at the Guatemala badminton tournament, which begins today with category of International Series and will grant 2 500 points for the world ranking.

Pinar del Rio defeated Matanzas 6-0 and became the solo leader of the Cuban baseball championship, relegating thus its rival to second seat in the standings.

Cuban Leinier Domínguez will be from today among the 16 players attending the men's chess tournament of the Mind Games in the Chinese city of Huian.

Yan Carlos Arias, from Las Tunas, wears for the third time the leader's jersey in the third edition of the Guantánamo-Pinar- Havana cycling tour, which runs today its seventh stage.

José Armenteros (100 kg) won the silver medal in the in the last day of the Judo Grand Prix of Dusseldorf, Germany, and placed Cuba in 13th seat of a contest won by Japan with three gold and one silver medals.

Santiago de Cuba's Argenis Frómeta won the sixth stage and the two intermediate sprints of the National Tour which covered 106 kilometers from Camagüey to Ciego de Avila.

Matanzas scored its sixth victory in line when beating 5-0 the leader Pinar del Río to climb to second seat of the standings at just one game of the top in Cuban baseball championship.

HOLGUIN, Cuba, Feb 22 (acn) The designation of karate as an Olympic sport for the event of Tokyo 2020 is a dream shared today by the family of that martial art in Cuba.

Camagüey's Julio Valero Martinez was appointed as the new head coach of the Cuban national soccer team, which next month will face the qualifiers for the Caribbean Cup.

Judoka Dayaris Mestre will be the first to compete for Cuba in the Grand Prix of Dusseldorf, Germany, an event that will gather from today until Sunday to 548 athletes -340 men and 208 women- from 86 countries.

Pinar del Río beat 3-1 Ciego de Avila and now both share the top of Cuban baseball championship in its 55th edition.