Sports

Sport and Science Team Up

By Alfredo Boada / Photos: Calixto Llanes

At the beginning of this year, sports authorities inaugurated the Cuban Sports Information Resource Centre, an institution that will enhance scientific sports development on the Island.

Omara Durand: focused on another golden season

By: Alejandro Martínez Martínez

After several seasons marked with world titles and records, limits seem nonexistent for the Cuban paralympic athlete Omara Durand, formerly in the T13 category and now in the T12 (severely visually impaired).

Cuban Gymnasts Aspire to Greatness

By Alfredo Boada / Photos: Roberto Morejón and Prensa Latina

Cuba hopes to have a complete and competitive world class gymnastics team, following Manrique Larduet’s impressive international results and the presence of three Cubans in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. Cuban gymnasts had last participated in the Athens 2004 Games.

The Dolphin of Football

By Alfredo Boada / Photos: Roberto Morejón and Prensa Latina

He started as a water polo player and today holds a very unique record: mastery of the ball in the water. Jhoen Lefont Rodríguez (Matanzas, 1987), contrary to other athletes, had better control of the ball with his head than with his feet, ever since he began training at the age of 13.

The Jewels of Latin American Sport

By Yasiel Cancio Vilar

The fastest man on the planet did it again. For the third consecutive time, Usain Bolt won the sprinting Olympic gold medals - 100, 200 and 4x100 meter relay, standing out in Prensa Latina’s Sports survey, ‘Encuesta’.

Cuba in Rio-2016 With Boxing as the Flagship Sport

Photos: Roberto Morejón, Jit INDER

In the recent olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Cuban boxing, having won five gold and three bronze medals, surpassed its performance of London-2012 and fulfilled the commitment that the team had previously set.

The Olympic Awakening...

By: Charly Morales Valido

If we drop any chauvinist opinions and see the Olympics as they should be, an ecumenical celebration, then we can say that Rio 2016 was a great event on all counts.

Billfishing Sixty-sixth International Ernest Hemingway Tournament

By: Roberto F. Campos, Photos: Abel Padrón Padilla, A.C. N.

Cuba is celebrating recreational boating, which was obvious this June at the Sixty-Sixth International Ernest Hemingway Billfishing Tournament.

Great Tournament and Great Sailing in Cuba

Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism (Mintur), involved in the promotion of recreational sailing on the island, reported that the 66th Ernest Hemingway Billfishing Tournament will take place from June 13 to 28 and that large numbers of American fishermen are expected.

Ronaldo Veitía without Ippons

By Lemay Padrón Oliveros, Photos: Tito Meriño

The city of Havana has its symbols: the Morro fortress, the Giraldilla, the Revolution Square and many more. If we talk about coaches, Cuba also has its own and Eugenio George, Alcides Sagarra and Ronaldo Veitía make up the golden trio of sports trainers.

Show Jumping Horses in Cuba

By Roberto F. Campos, Photos: Manuel Muñoa and José Tito Meriño

As part of the drive to draw more visitors to Cuba, Havana’s elite show jumping horse auction has grown in popularity over the past seven years, mostly among Latin American equestrian experts.

The Cuban Wushu School

The Cuban Wushu School was founded in 1995 by Master Roberto Vargas Lee, after he returned from studying Wushu at the Beijing Sports University. Currently, the School has more than 7 thousand practitioners in 15 provinces of Cuba, and students in more than 15 countries abroad.

Cuba Goes Soccer Crazy

By: Anubis Galardy / Photos by Prensa Latina

In a country renowned for its baseball excellence a love of soccer is growing, played with homemade balls whose quality reflects the dreams and the realities of the young people who kick them about.

Soccer, Cuba - New York Cosmos, an Unforgettable Game

Photos by: José Tito Meriño

Giovanni Savarese, coach for the New York Cosmos soccer team, described his visit to Cuba and the amicable game against the Cuban national team as unforgettable. “It was without a doubt an extraordinary experience, beyond what we imagined”, said Savarese.

Cuba-Canada, Working With Love

By: Rafael Arzuaga / Photos: José Luis Anaya

It is said that “everything is possible with love” and this is precisely the basis on which the Canada Cuba Sports and Cultural Festivals organization bases its work, which has been praiseworthy over the last 25 years, working on making people aware of Cuban culture, sports, science and traditions. In an interview granted to Cubaplus magazine, Jonathan Watts, president of Canada Cuba Sports and Cultural Festivals said that the entity he heads has one main objective, which is create on authentic set of experiences that project a true image of Cuban reality.