Sport News Roundup May 16

Cuba remained unbeaten by winning, on Thursday, the fourth game of the Maximo Gomez Men's Volleyball Cup, held throughout the week and continuing in different cities in the Dominican Republic.... More


Sports News Roundup May 15

Cuban Leinier Dominguez defeated Russian Dmitry Jakovenko on Friday in the second round of the Chess Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Dominguez won in 36 moves with a semi-Slavic defense and earned 1,5 points and comes first after two matches.... More


Sports News Roundup May 14

In September 2014, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund coordinated a trip to Cuba with Ernest Hemingway's grandsons John and Patrick to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Hemingway's Nobel Prize in Literature, which he donated to the people of Cuba, with celebrations in the fishing town of Cojimar and Hemingway's estate, Finca Vigia.... More


Sports News Roundup My 13

Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez will participate beginning Thursday in the 4th and final phase of World Chess Grand Prix from May 14th to 26th in the Russian city of Khanty Mansik.... More


Sports News Roundup May 12

The Cuban player Yulieski Gourriel denied today having being disrespected with the contract linking him to the Yokohama Bay Stars DeNA club from the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).... More


Sports News Roundup May 11

Cuban cyclist Marlies Mejias edged up-and-coming American rider Coryn Rivera in a bunch sprint to win the Pan-Am Continental Road Race Championship on Saturday.... More


Sports News Roundup May 09

Current Pan-American Men’s Singles champion, Cuban Osleni Guerrero, will headline a packed cast of international players who will visit Trinidad and Tobago for this nation's first-ever International Badminton Tournament which serves off at the Eastern Regional Indoor Sporting Arena, Tacarigua, from May 20th-24th.... More


Sports News Roundup May 08

Boxing announced its retirement from the competitive program of the World Combat Sports Games through disputes between organizers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).... More


Sports News Roundup May 07

Wrestlers from the U.S. and Cuba will compete in a dual meet in Times Square later this month --a preview of top contenders for the 2016 Olympic Games and the first time since the longtime rivals will be on the mat against each other since the thawing in political relations began late last year.... More


Sports News Roundup May 06

Chinese 100 meters hurdler Liu Xiang -gold medalist in 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece- will say farewell to active competition during the event of the Diamond League on May 17 in Shanghai, said organizers of the event on Tuesday.... More


Sports News Roundup May 05

The Sports Club of Prado in Cienfuegos city, the oldest in the country, celebrates its 75th anniversary of its foundation today full of local fans and supporters of the national passion --baseball. Alfredo Rodríguez Yera, president of the association, said to Prensa Latina News Agency that the club was originally created by a group of local baseball players who worked for and represented a small local shop called Estany House. ... More


Sports News Roundup May 04

The Cuban quartet of women's 4x800 meters relay ranked 4th in the 2015 IAAF World Indoor Championships, IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas-2015 to set the best performance of the delegation of Cuba.... More


May 2 - The International Boxing Association (AIBA) says Cuba earned five places in the 2016 Olympics men’s draw through its World Series of Boxing.... More


May 2 - The Wyoming Seminary wrestling team, the Blue Knights, are coming to Havana this weekend to participate in the Junior Pan American Games, the Times Leader reports.... More


May 1 - Cuba now has 389 athletes who are classified in 30 sports for the next Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada, between July 10th and 26th, said official sources in Havana.... More


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