With the presence of the main authorities of the province, the new Villa Clara Baseball Team was appointed for the upcoming national baseball series.
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As part of the preventive measures to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba changed on Monday its sports strategy, by postponing the entry of its athletes to the main training centers.
Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), who was a defender of the right of people to practice sports and who also was the main inspirer of the Cuban sporting triumphs in the last 50 years, left an indelible mark on the athletic movement of this Caribbean nation.
The Ballon d'Or will not be awarded this year for the first time in its 64-year history after the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the football calendar, organizers France Football magazine said.
A few days after the 40th anniversary of that July 25, 1980, when María Caridad Colón became the first Latin American woman to receive an Olympic gold medal, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elected her this Friday as one of its new members.
Villa Clara's players, Leonys Martín and Dayán Viciedo, shine with their own light these days in the Japanese Baseball League (NPB), although, given their proven quality, they are expected to continue doing so in the rest of the 2020 season.
Real Madrid did not fail this Thursday and is already the champion of the Spanish football league, after his victory at home by two goals to one over the dangerous Villarreal, during date 37 of the tournament.
Real Madrid is going this Thursday for its number 34 in Spanish football, when it receives the dangerous eleven of Villarreal, at the Alfredo di Stéfano stadium, in the Iberian capital.
Cubans Ariel Martínez and Leonys Martín shone with their bats to the point that they hit home runs for their respective teams, this Tuesday in the Japanese Baseball League (NPB).
Dr. C. Félix Julio Alfonso López*
Starting from the debate on social networks about Villa Clara's name and mascot for the next baseball season, several readers asked us for the story of a team that was considered by many to be the best of the first half of the last century.
Brilliant reliever from Pinar del Rio, Liván Moinelo, is simply untouchable in the Japanese Baseball League (NPB), to the point that hitters have had virtually no options against him in 2020.
Cuba wants to compete with at least 80 athletes in the 32nd Tokyo Olympic Games, now scheduled for the summer of 2021, confirmed Ariel Sainz, vice-president of the Cuban Institute of Sports.
The province of Villa Clara will be very well represented at the nearby World Online Chess Olympiad, which begins on July 22 and ends on August 30, by including a trio of chess players on the Cuba team roster for the singular tournament.