RIO 2016

With a harvest of five gold, two silver and four bronze medals Cuba ranked 18th in the overall standings of the 31st Olympic Games Rio 2016 that concluded last Sunday in that Brazilian city»

Two days before turning 30, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will come out to race what he anticipated will be his last final in Olympic Games, the relay 4×100 meters»

Julio Cesar La Cruz (81 kg) gave Cuba its fourth gold medal when beating Kazakh Adilbek Niyasymbetov at Rio Olympic Games»

Yosbany Veitía (52 kg) beat 3-0 Moroccan Achraf Kharroubi in their first fight in Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games»

Cuban Mijain Lopez (130 kg) achieved the triple Olympic crown by beating 6-0 Turkish Riza Kayaalp in the final of the Greco-Roman wrestling tournament of Rio 2016 Olympic Games»

Greco-Roman wrestler Ismael Borrero (59kg) won Cuba’s first gold medal of this year’s Río Olympic Games, after defeating Shinobu Ota of Japan, by technical superiority in the final»

49kg World Champion Johannys Argilagos defeated Kenya’s Peter Warui by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27 and 30-26), to secure Cuba its first medal (bronze) of the 2016 Río Olympic Games»

Antonio Becali, president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), said that the Cuban delegation is ready to compete in the 31st Olympic Games that will be inaugurated today. The head of the delegation recalled 70 of the 124 Cubans qualified to »

They are marathoners, judokas, orphans, lost, stateless. They are described as “displaced,” their countries of origin “war-torn,” full of “horrors” and “heartbreak.”»

Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel handed the Cuban banner to two-time Olympic champion in wrestling Mijain Lopez, who will be the flag bearer in Rio»