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Granma conquers its second crown in the history of the Cuban baseball

Prensa Latina

The Granma Chestnuts conquered their second consecutive crown in the Cuban Baseball Championship, when they win in seven games to Las Tunas team, four victories against three.

Cuba’s Best of 2017 Pole Vaulter Silva and Boxer La Cruz

By Silvia Mayra Gómez Fariñas

Pole Vaulter Yarisley Silva and boxer Julio César La Cruz were voted best Cuban athletes in 2017. They were chosen through votes cast by representatives of the National Sports Institute, sports media and the Young Communist League. Cuban sports awards 2017: Best Team: Tamers of Cuba (Boxing) - Won Hamburg World Championships and Pan American Tournament, and placed second in the World Boxing Cuba’s Best of 2017 Pole Vaulter Silva and Boxer La Cruz Series.

Non-Stop Despaigne

Charly Morales Valido

Despaigne will join his Cuban squad, Granma, to play the post-season and the Caribbean Series.

Cubaplus strikes back with PL's poll

Charly Morales Valido

Altuve, Yulimar and Brazil were the winners of this year's sports survey from Prensa Latina

Silva & La Cruz, Cuba's Best of 2017

Charly Morales Valido

Cuba announced the list of 2017's most oustanding athletes

Medal Sweep for Cuba’s Youngest Spells Bright Future

By Julio César Mejías Cárdenas, Photos: Prensa Latina

The Cuban delegation’s historic achievement at the recent World U18 Championships in the Kenyan capital Nairobi bodes well for further athletics success in the near future.

A Cuban Queen in Costa Rican road

Charly Morales Valido

Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra leads the 17th Female Tour to Costa Rica, after back-to-back winning the prologue and the second stage of this race.

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.

Cuba-Canada Baseball links: business on course…

Charly Morales Valido

Canadian officials are talking with Cuban authorities to negotiate the participation of a local squad in the independent Can-Am Baseball League, with the possible hiring of Cuban ballplayers.

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’.