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,…

The city of Matanzas will host the All-Star Game of the 61st National Baseball Series (SNB) in Cuba, sports authorities announced on Monday, March 7. The event, which will take place on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20, will gather at the Victoria de Girón stadium the best-performing ballplayers in the first two months…

Cuban canoeist Fernando Dayán Jorge, Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020, abandoned the official delegation with which he was traveling to Mexico to have a preparation base, the official sports weekly Jit reported Sunday. The National Canoeing Commission (CNC), the newspaper said, criticized the athlete’s actions and stated that “this is a serious indiscipline that ruins…

Cuban immigration authorities denied this Saturday, January 29, entry to Cuba to baseball player Yulieski Gourriel, who left the Cuban team at the 2016 Caribbean Series held in the Dominican Republic. Gourriel’s relatives were left waiting for him in Varadero, where they were going to spend a few days of vacation together, as announced by…

Cuban diver Anisley Garcia is expected to arrive in the Russian city of Kazan in early February, after being invited to train at the international water sports center located there. The queen of ornamental diving at the recent I Pan American Youth Games Cali 2021 will spend a year in Russia, as announced by the…