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RIO DE JANEIRO — Watching Cuba’s national baseball team play can be a little like watching a supermodel walk down a runway: They’re both elegant, full of confidence, and though they never ...
Cuba has won its first Gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games.It sparked euphoria, but it is a bittersweet victory. Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López went up to the stage of the Champ de Mars ...
Cuba’s soccer team has called up a handful of players who developed outside the country’s sports system for its World Cup qualifying matches, a subtle but potentially significant shift in policy.
HAVANA — Aerial photographs of soccer fields in Cuba were once enough to sound the alarm. “Cubans play baseball,” warned a CIA consultant in 1970 after studying U.S. satellite images ...
Here’s a perspective from Baltimore Orioles owner John Angelos, who attempted to use baseball to liberalize relations between the two countries. A Cuban boy watches the national team train in ...
Cuba announced this week that its top fighters would join the professional boxing circuit following decades of shying away from the sport after former leader Fidel Castro banned sports for pay ...
Cuba won no gold medals at any Games from 1906 to 1968, but all of that changed beginning in 1972. In Munich, then in Montreal and then in Moscow -- Games the United States boycotted -- Cuba was ...
HAVANA (AP) — Ely Malik Reyes stepped onto the cordless platform and began delivering powerful punches and spectacular flying kicks against his combatant.
The arrangement will also cover academic exchange, anti-doping, sports medicine, community sports, equipment and training and development of coaches The most significant development in sports this ...
Transgender Cuban athlete Ely Malik Reyes, who practices mixed martial arts known as sanda, trains at a gym in Regla, across the bay from Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, June 11, 2024.