The much anticipated Intercontinental Baseball Series, set to take place in Barranquilla, Colombia from January 26th to February 1st, 2024, has been abruptly cancelled due to pressure from the Cuban government and its allies in Colombia. Background on the Intercontinental Baseball Series The series was organized by Edgar Renteria’s Team Renteria USA and was to…
At the remarkable age of 64, Diana Nyad achieved a monumental feat of endurance and strength: swimming 111 miles from Cuba to Florida without the safety of a shark cage. Now, ten years following her awe-inspiring accomplishment, her story has been transformed into a Netflix film aptly titled ‘Nyad’, with powerhouse actors Annette Bening and…
Legendary Cuban volleyball player Regla Torres, who clinched three consecutive Olympic gold medals, shared her deep disappointment and shame over the treatment meted out by the Cuban Volleyball Federation to its former players. This approach, according to Torres, directly affects the growth and success of the sport in Cuba. Torres, who was crowned the best…
Cuba, once a regional sporting powerhouse, is predicting its worst ever medal count at the upcoming 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. A confluence of factors including economic crisis, athlete defections, reduced delegation size and key absences have severely diminished Cuba’s medal ambitions. Cuba has historically performed very well at the Pan American Games,…
On Thursday, amidst a controversy over athletes defecting, the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation (Inder), announced the termination of the contentious repatriation requirement for Cuban athletes living abroad. This requirement had represented a barrier for those who chose to emigrate and wished to compete in an event on the Island. The official…
Three Cuban hockey players left the national team while participating in a training camp in Barcelona, Spain, according to a Facebook post by sports journalist Francys Romero. Romero reported that Yadira Miclin, Marianela López, and Daylin Suárez Pérez left the training camp in Barcelona in the last few hours. He noted that the team is…
On Monday, the players of Team Asere, the Cuban team that failed to defeat the United States in the V World Baseball Classic, returned to the island without the tournament trophy but with numerous purchases. Before boarding their flight to Havana, the athletes were seen with flat screen TVs, split air conditioners, tires and a…
The president of the Cuban Baseball Federation, Juan Reinaldo Perez, said Saturday, in a statement, that the organizers of the World Baseball Classic, scheduled for March 2023, have received a license that would allow Cubans currently playing in Major League Baseball or residing in the United States to join Team Cuba. The head of the…
Hilarión Ronaldo Veitía Valdivié, the Cuban women’s judo coach recognized as one of the best in the world, died this Monday in Havana at the age of 75, after several weeks of hospitalization between Cuba and Spain. The news was confirmed by several media outlets and represents the loss of a Cuban coach who trained…
Ismael Borrero, Olympic champion in the discipline of Greco-Roman wrestling in Rio de Janeiro 2016, abandoned the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Pan American Championship of the discipline, to be held in Acapulco, Mexico. Borrero, 30, made the trip with the entire Cuban team but, after arriving in Mexico, he left the concentration…
Cuban baseball player Aroldis Chapman, pitcher for the New York Yankees, asked baseball fans around the world to support the Cuban Professional Ballplayers Association, recently created in Miami. “To all baseball fans and followers, I ask on behalf of myself and free Cubans, to support the Cuban Professional Ballplayers Association, so we can take a…
Cuban boxer Kevin Brown left this week the Cuban delegation that will participate in the Elite Men’s and Women’s Continental Boxing Championship, to be held in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Brown, 28 years old and a native of the municipality of Nuevitas, Camagüey, took advantage of a stopover at the airport of Tocumen, Panama,…