Cuban baseball holds gala for national champions
By Tomado de ACN / Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez /ACN
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba (acn).- The Award Gala of the 55th Cuban National Baseball Series was held tonight in Ciego de Avila, province that won for the second consecutive year the crown in the most popular sport of the country.
Read more ...At Least 86 Cuban Athletes Classify for 2016 Olympics
By Tomado de Prensa Latina
Havana, (Prensa Latina).- The recent classification of badmintonplayer Osleni Guerrero rose to 86 the number of Cuban athletes in 14 sports so far to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games, scheduled for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug.5-21.
Read more ...Cuba qualifies to Futsal World Cup
By Tomado de ACN / Foto: Granma
HAVANA, Cuba.- (acn) Cuba qualified to the coming Futsal World Cup to be held in September in the Colombian city of Cali, along Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama.
Cuba appoints manager for baseball team to play in Can-Am League
By Tomado de ACN / Foto: Archivo
HAVANA, Cuba.- (acn) Coach Roger Machado will be the manager of the Cuban national team that will hold 18 games since next June 9th against teams from the Canadian-American (Can-Am) Baseball League.
Cuban basketball women dream of being in Rio Olympics
By Tomado de ACN / Adelante
La Havana.- Returning to the Olympics 16 years later will be the goal of the Cuban women's basketball team that will seek in France, from June 13 to 19, the long-awaited ticket to the summer event of coming August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Five Thousand Antidoping Tests for Rio-2016 Olympic Games
By Tomado de Prensa Latina
Rio de Janeiro, (Prensa Latina).- Five thousand samples for anti-doping tests will be collected and processed by the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCB) during the Olympic Games in Rio-2016, as confirmed by sources from the Ministry of Sport.
Cuban fencer to Pan American Championships in Panama
By ACN / Photo: Archive
Havana, Cuba.- (acn) 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.
Pinar del Rio takes playoff to sixth game
By ACN / Photo: Archive
Cuba, (acn).- 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.
Camagüey, champion for countries
By Félix Anazco Ramos / Adelante
Camagüey.- It is not a joke, friends, the accumulated booty by the boxers of this province was enough to place our country in the highest place of the medal table of the XXth World Cup of Boxing Qatar 2015.