The six Cubans who took to the ring in Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva won their bouts in the IBA Champions’ Night—the first professional match organized in the island in more than 60 years—which marked both International Boxing Day and the 50th anniversary of the first IBA World Boxing Championships held in this city.

 Cuba lost 2-3 to Spain in the round of 16 of the 1st Volleyball Boys’ U17 World Championships, held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Omara Durand and Robiel Yankiel Sol will carry the Cuban flag today at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games, to be stated at Paris’s Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées.

Cuban team will face today Puerto Rico in the third and last day of Group C of the preliminary phase of the 1st FIVB Volleyball Boys´ U17 World Championship, to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Cuba's second volleyball team finished in fifth in the 2024 NORCECA Men's Final Six Tournament, held in Quebec, Canada, after beating the Dominican Republic 3-1.

On the penultimate day of the Cuba finished ninth in the 21st Women’s NORCECA Pan Am Cup after beating Peru in straight sets on the penultimate day of the tournament in Guanajuato, Mexico.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wished success to the athletes that will represent the island at the 2024 Paralympic Games.

Cuba will be on group A at the upcoming 6th World Baseball Classic, which will take place in Puerto Rico, where the island’s team is scheduled to face the locals plus Canada and Panama.

Cuba’s Carlos Daniel Albornoz will need to up his game to leave a better image in the International Chess Festival under way in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Cuba's second volleyball team will be opposite Puerto Rico today in the 3rd NORCECA Men’s Final Six Tournament, under way in the Canadian city of Gatineau, Quebec.

Cuba lost 1-3 to U.S.A. on the third day of Pool B in the 21st Women’s NORCECA Pan Am Cup, under way in Guanajuato, Mexico, and will be opposite Argentina today.

Cuba’s Santa Clara Bombarderos lost 6-4 to Mexico and said goodbye to the Little League World Series, held in the US city of Williamsport.

The World Boxing Day will be celebrated in Havana on August 27 with the Night of Champions at the Coliseum of the Ciudad Deportiva, said today the president of the Cuban Boxing Federation, Alberto Puig de la Barca.

Cuba's top authorities congratulated today the five-time Olympic champion Mijain Lopez Nunez on his 42nd birthday.

Cuban Jairo Guibert won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.