This Thursday Cuban Yarisley Silva jumped 4.78 meters in the 40th Stockholm Gala, Sweden, the last meeting of the winter indoor circuit of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), and registered the best mark of the season, and at the same she established a new Central American record for women pole vault. The first competitors began jumping over 4.00 and 4.25 meters, but in her first attempt, Yarisley flew over the bar at 4.45 meters, which is the 3rd highest mark reached in the Ericsson Globe Arena, the venue of this event.

With a last minute change, Las Tunas left-hander pitcher Darien Nunez for Granma´s lefty Leandro Martínez, the list of Cuban national team that will participate in the 3rd World Baseball Classic next March was made official.

With Yulieski Gourriel and Frederich Cepeda, veterans of the two previous editions, and the absence of Rusney Castillo, the 28-man strong baseball team that will represent Cuba in the III World Baseball Classic, scheduled to run on March 2-19, was announced today at noon. This Wednesday Higinio Velez, president of the Cuban Federation of Baseball, flanked by Victor Mesa, team manager, and Jorge Fuentes, Chief Technical Officer, announced the squad, from a group of 36 players that were training in the Latinoamericano Stadium in Havana.

Maybe because he is tired of racing, we won’t see him at the start anymore. Maybe fighting against the hurdles bored him to stop. The suspicions of his retirement came true. After his worst year in the sport, as he described it in 2012, Dayron Robles left the top level competitions and made a whole in Cuban track and field and in the chest of many Cubans. It is hard to believe, but it is true. And it is such strong blow…I don’t know!

All baseball fans were shaken when the roster of the national team to participate in the upcoming World Baseball Classic was released. In a country where everybody is an expert, even from early age, the debates heated the atmosphere, already warm in this “winter”.