A baseball match for the visually impaired will be held between teams from Cuba and Italy during the second half of November, which will be the first international event of this type involving Cuban athletes. Cuban blind people first practiced this sport in 2000 with Italian teachers Alfredo Mellit and Patricia Bombardieris, twelve years before the Italian Baseball League for »
The traditional Cuban marathon, Marabana, will have a record number of participants this year, according to the list updated five days before it is held in the Cuban capital»
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt appears again among the three finalists in the men’s category Athlete of the Year of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF)»
The 1-1 draw with Saint Lucia in their last match for Group B denied Cubans the possibility to earn one of the five berths to the CONCACAF finals, which grants tickets to the South Korea 2017 World Cup»
The acquisition of sports equipment and uniforms for athletes at high prices in third countries is among the damages suffered by Cuban sport because of the US blockade»
Daviel Gómez will be the only athlete of Sancti Spiritus to play in the All-Star Game of baseball to take place next October 29th, in the Cuban city of Matanzas»
The Cuban soccer team will play this Friday its first friendly with the United States, in the history of the two countries. The last official game at this level was recorded in Havana in 2008»
Cuban Sulian Matienzo and Heidy Margarita Rodriguez will play with the VK Agel Prostejov team of the Czech Republic, after signing a contract on Tuesday at the Sports City Coliseum in Havana»
Sancti Spiritus broke Guantanamo’s string of five straight wins when defeating them 8-0 in the continuation of the Cuban baseball championship in its 56th edition»
Five Cuban volleyball players received jail sentences in Finland as the result of a close doors hearing that took place last August 31 for the crime of aggravated rape against a Finnish woman»
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