The indomitable sprinter has collected 10 Paralympic records and four world records. After her retirement from the track, we talked about her career, from childhood to Paris 2024.
The sprinter, undisputed queen of track athletics at the Paralympic Games, this Tuesday added her ninth crown in competitions under the five rings.
After Yusneylis Guzmán’s silver, Cuban women’s wrestling won its second Olympic medal with Marín and thus closed the island’s medal count at the Games in the City of Light.
In his farewell to the mats, the Pinar del Río native defeated the Cuban-Chilean Yasmani Acosta and climbed to the top of the Olympus for the fifth consecutive time, more than any other athlete in the history of wrestling in the summer games.
The Prince of Heights reviews his career as he is about to celebrate four decades as the world’s record holder.
Although the island will not be able to repeat Barranquilla 2018’s second place by country nor will it reach one hundred titles, several athletes from the island have left good performances in San Salvador.
Raidel Arbelay was born in November 1970 in San Juan de los Yeras, a small town in Villa Clara; he has lived in Ukraine since 1996.
2021 left countless outstanding stories among Cuban Major League Baseball players. Players who reaffirmed themselves as undisputed stars, young people who irrupted with great force, individual awards, World Series champions... Cuba is retaking its privileged place in the best baseball in the world.
Orestes Miñoso was inducted into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame in 2021, six years after his death. Why did it take so long for voters to appreciate the legacy of the first black Latino in the Major Leagues?
Cuba is the foreign country with the most exponents in the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame: six players and eight representatives in total.
To achieve this new world record, Erick was unable to complete his training given that for several weeks he spent most of his time focused on the recovery and rehabilitation of his brother Douglas, who suffered a stroke.
The last out came with that fly to the center of Loidel Chapellí Jr., which closed the Caribbean performance in a chaotic, turbulent, tense and not very pleasant World Cup.
In the Japanese capital, Cuba surpassed its performance in the last three Olympic Games.
Greco-Roman wrestling has marked the golden opening of the Cuban table of medals in five of the last eight Games.
Rafael Alba, two-time world champion, came out of ostracism to win Cuba’s first medal in Tokyo, thanks to the repechage and a young Macedonian who swept him away on a triumphal tide.
The Tokyo Olympic Games are just around the corner and Cuba is already giving the finishing touches to its delegation, which for the first time since 1964 will be below 100 athletes.
Ana Fidelia’s life, marked by success and the traps of destiny, is an example of human betterment.
If certain things do not change, Cuba will continue to be condemned to bury its enormous baseball tradition in the depths.
The now historic number 45 of the Industriales team is leaving the diamonds, although not of his own free will. A controversial renewal decision has cut his 17-year career as a catcher for the capital’s teams.
The first baseman became the fifth Chicago White Sox player, and the sixth Cuban in history, with 200 home runs in MLB.
On March 12, 1960, Cuban scout Tony Pacheco, of the Cincinnati Reds, closed an agreement with a young player who played at a sugar mill on the island.
When Julita Osendi said that if she did not exist another woman would have come to do the same, it was not a display of modesty, but of the full conviction that women had and have all the right and aptitude to earn a prominent space in the complex universe of sports journalism. Life has proved Julita Osendi right. Women occupy an increasingly prominent place in the Cuban sports press, gradually breaking down the myths and prejudices that for decades limited or blocked the presence of women in the programs that the island’s media dedicated to the coverage of sports events. Today women narrate baseball games and boxing fights or follow the most important disciplines, a scenario unthinkable in the past century. Today we have women analysts of the highest caliber, whose criteria and accurate assessments mark states of opinion and influence decisions of the sports system itself, something that has not been achieved by condescension, but by their intelligence and ability to overcome. A further step in the recognition of the rights and work of women in this field has been taken with the recent creation of the Women’s Section of the Circle of Sports Reporters of the Union...
The last time a player led the American League in hits, extra-bases, RBIs, slugging and total bases, Pete Rose was more than 1,000 hits short of catching Ty Cobb in the all-time lead, Rickey Henderson hadn’t started his long-run career of 1,406 stolen bases, and Minnie Miñoso had another season to play in the Majors, although he was already 52 years old. By the way, the last time a player led the American League in hits, extra-bases, RBIs, slugging and total bases, neither José Abreu (Mal Tiempo, 1987) nor any of the Cubans who are in the Major Leagues today were born. Perhaps this should not surprise us, since we’re faced with an absolutely unusual event, within the reach of very few mortals. So much so that only four men have achieved it in the centennial history of the young circuit. Four players since 1901?! Well yes, only four, although wait, we’re making a mistake; that short list has grown only a few hours ago and now has a fifth member. We’re talking precisely about Cienfuegos-born José Abreu, one of the most consistent hitters in professional baseball in the United States and one of the most responsible for the return...
José Abreu, Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal and Luis Robert have achieved the feat. For the second time in MLB history, a group of four Cubans advance to the postseason with the same team, something that hadn’t happened in 55 years.
