West Palm Beach, May 29 (RHC)-- The Cuban baseball team that will take part in the pre-Olympic Baseball Tournament of the Americas beginning Monday began training on Friday with their motivation boosted by a victory over the Dominican Republic in a preparatory match.... More
Tokyo, May 28 (RHC)-- The head of the Japan Doctors Union, Dr. Naoto Ueyama, has warned that holding the Summer Games in Tokyo as planned could create an ‘Olympic’ strain of COVID-19, as the Asian nation battles a fourth wave of the virus.... More
Miami, May 28 (RHC)-- The Cuban baseball team defeated the Dominican Republic 9-4 in a warm-up game played in Florida ahead of the Pre-Olympic Games of the Americas, which will begin next Monday in the cities of West Palm Beache and Port St Lucie.... More
Tokyo, May 27 (RHC)-- Cuban Dayan Viciedo was the protagonist in the duel between Chunichi Dragons and Softbank Falcons, the two Japanese professional baseball organizations with more players from the Caribbean island in their ranks.... More
Lagos, May 27 (RHC)-- Lee Evans, an African American sprinter who helped found the Olympic Project for Human Rights after leading protests against racism in the United States, has died in Nigeria at the age of 74. Lee Evans won two gold medals while setting world records in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.... More
Washington, May 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of State has issued a ‘Do Not Travel’ order for Japan amid a high rate of COVID-19 infection in the country, just two months before the capital Tokyo is set to host the Olympic Games.... More
Havana, May 24 (RHC)-- Luis Daniel Del Risco, head of Rules and Arbitration and treasurer of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) reported Monday afternoon that the Cuban team that is slated to participate in the Florida Pre-Olympic tournament is subject to the decisions made at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, which has not yet resolved the visas.... More
Tokyo, May 24 (RHC)-- Japan has opened mass inoculation centers in Tokyo, Osaka and other cities as it races to vaccinate most of its elderly population before the start of the Olympic Games in July. The centers, opened on Monday, will vaccinate thousands of people every day, giving a boost to Japan’s sluggish vaccination drive as officials battle a fourth wave of coronavirus infections.... More
Havana, May 24 (RHC)-- Cuba's top heptathletes, Yorgelis Rodriguez and Adriana Rodriguez, travel to Europe on Monday to compete in the famed combined events meeting in Gotzis, Austria.... More
Havana, May 21 (RHC)-- Cuba announced Friday the selection of 26 players for the Florida Pre-Olympic Baseball Tournament, ten days before the start of the tournament, which will give a direct ticket to Tokyo-2020.... More
London, May 20 (RHC)-- Football superstar Paul Pogba and his Manchester United team-mate Amad Diallo have held up a Palestinian flag following the English football team’s final home game of the season.... More
Havana, May 19 (RHC)-- Members of the Cuban baseball delegation to the Pre-Olympic Baseball Tournament in Florida began going to the U.S. embassy in Havana on Wednesday to continue with visa procedures for the tournament, which gets underway on May 31st.... More
HAVANA (AP) — Just over a week before the start of the Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Florida, the Cuban team does not have visas to travel to the United States, athletes and officials said Tuesday.... More
Matanzas, May 17 (RHC)-- The Dominican Republic and Nicaragua have been announced as Cuba's opponents for the pre-Olympic baseball tournament of the Americas, to be played from May 31 in the U.S. state of Florida.... More
Havana, May 14 (RHC)-- Floral offerings from President Miguel Diaz-Canel and the Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) accompanied Thursday the funeral of the head of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) Higinio Velez, who died in Havana this week of COVID-19.... More
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