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Yunidis:
another gold in the 200m
September 18.08
FOR the second time in under 24 hours, sprinter
Yunidis Castillo overwhelmed the Bird’s Nest stadium
when she set a new world record and picked up the
gold medal in the Women’s 200-meter event (T-46
category) at the 13th Paralympics.
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Cuba clobbers
U.S. baseball team; will fight for Olympic gold
August
21.08
BEIJING.- Cuba beat the United States
10-2 this Friday, and will face South Korea for the
gold medal in baseball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Solid pitching by opener Norge Luis Vera and an
effective closing by Pedro Luis Lazo allowed just
two runs, guaranteeing Cuba a place in an Olympic
baseball final for the fifth time in a row.
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Cuba: eight
bronze medals in boxing guaranteed
August
21.08
BEIJING.—The assurance of eight slots in Friday’s
boxing semifinals delighted Pedro Roque, head coach
of the Cuban boxing fleet that is participating in
the 29th Olympic Games here.
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Dayron Robles:
Cuba’s second gold
August
21.08
BEIJING (AP).- Cuban Dayron
Robles easily won the gold medal in the 100-meter
hurdles this Thursday, with a time of 12.93 seconds.
Robles’ time was just six-hundredths of a second
below his own world record, but even so, he came in
quite far ahead of David Payne and David Oliver of
the United States, who came in second and third,
clocking in at 13.17 and 13.18 seconds,
respectively.
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Recognition for
Cuba’s athletes
August
20.08
BEIJING.— José Ramón Fernández, vice president of
the Council of Ministers, met with athletes and
coaches to bring messages of encouragement, and
praised their determination to give their all for
their commitment to the people.
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Yipsi
Moreno wins Cuba’s sixth silver
August
20.08
CUBAN Yipsi Moreno has just won the silver medal in
the women’s Olympic hammer-throw event, with a mark
of 74.7 meters. The gold was won by Byelorussian
Aksana Miankova. With this victory, Yipsi won Cuba
its sixth silver medal in Beijing.
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Cuba’s
women’s volleyball among the greats again
August
19.08
FOR the fifth consecutive time, the
women’s volleyball team is among the four greats in
an Olympic Games. It achieved that by beating the
Serbian team with a final score of 3-0 (26-24, 25-19
and 26-24).
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Cuba’s Yoanka
González opens the door to Olympic glory
August
18.08
YOANKA González has written one of the most glorious
pages in the history of the Cuban sporting movement.
At dawn on August 18, Cuba time, afternoon in China,
she regaled the island with its first Olympic medal
in cycling by coming in second in the women’s points
race at the 29th Olympics.
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Cuba beats
United States in Olympic baseball
August
15.08
THE Cuban baseball
team won its third game in the Beijing Olympics,
beating the United States in 11 innings with a final
score of 5-3 in a game that included the
implementation of a new extra-inning rule.
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Cuban
Mijaín López: first gold for Latin America in
Beijing
August
14.08
BEIJING.—On a rainy
day in this capital, Cuban wrestler Mijaín López
brought the sun out for Latin America by winning the
region’s first title in the Beijing Olympics 2008.
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From an
almost-setback to a colossal victory
August
13.08
There is no better
birthday gift for Fidel than this triumph by the
Cuba’s women volleyball team against China, not just
in remaining undefeated, but in the way they did it,
turning a setback into a victory. In other words,
showing the same determination with which he has
always guided the destiny of our country
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Cuba wins second silver medal in Olympic judo
August
13.08
BEIJING.— Judoka
Anaisy Hernández won Cuba its second silver medal on
Wednesday at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, after
defending Olympic champion Masae Ueno beat her in
the women’s 70-kilogram division final for the gold.
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Cuba undefeated in boxing
August
12.08
BEIJING.— After three
days of Olympic boxing competitions, Cuba remains
undefeated, with victories by featherweight Idel
Torriente and lightweight Yordenis Ugás, and Russia’s
first defeat.
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Dayron Robles
Very happy to be here
August
8.08
BEIJING.—“I’m very happy to be in
China, a country that has advanced a lot in every
aspect and worked hard to merit and organize these
Olympic Games,” affirmed Dayron Robles, world record
holder in the 110-meter hurdles.
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24TH SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Chinese dream a reality from today
August
8.08
BEIJING.—From today and for the next
two weeks, the world will be speaking Chinese.
That’s just a saying. What is predicted to be the
best Olympic Games in history began today at 8.08pm
(12 hours earlier in Cuba) with the participation of
10,600 athletes representing 205 national Olympic
committees in the spectacular Bird’s Nest stadium...
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Some 160,000 people to attend the
inauguration of the Olympic Games
August
4.08
BEIJING.— Some 160,000 people – including several
heads of state, are to attend the opening ceremony
of the 24th Olympic Games this Friday evening,
reported a government official from the capital this
Monday.
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Robles:
family warmth prior to Olympic challenge
August
1.08
CUBAN Dayron Robles is bringing his training
program to an end on the island in the heart of his
family, prior to facing the Olympic challenge in
Beijing, where his rivalry with Chinese Liu Xiang in
the men’s 110m-hurdles event is arousing much
expectation.
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WINS STOCKHOLM WITH
12.91
Dayron Robles, one-of-a kind record
setter
July
23.08
DAYRON
Robles — the "Flying Robles" — as some are now
calling the world record-holder (12.87 seconds) in
the 110-meter hurdles — has triumphed again, this
time in Stockholm on Tuesday, where he left behind
four U.S. rivals to win the DN Galan meet with a
time of 12.91.
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Raúl
presents national flag to baseball team for the
Olympic Games
June
6.08
President Raúl Castro arrived at
Havana’s Latin American stadium to meet the Cuban
baseball pre-selection team which will compete in
the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Cheaters will continue to be up against the ropes
June
6.08
NOBODY knows
for sure who invented it, much less whether or not
the person who created it survived to see the
results among the international sports community.
But for elementary school students and astronauts
alike, the word "doping" is a synonym for bad
conduct.
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Cuba’s Olympic women’s judo team selected
June
6.08
COACH Ronaldo
Veitía has decided to move Yagnelis Castillo up from
the 70-kilo division to the 78 kilos and Anais
Hernández from the 63 to the 70 kilos for the
Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Santiago de Cuba, Champions of Cuban baseball
April
22.08
SANTIAGO de Cuba beat Pinar del Rio
last night 2-1, and captured the National Series
title for the second consecutive year.
In order to hold on to the
championship, the team led by manager Antonio
Pacheco dispatched in four games the Pinar del Rio
greens, swept in the finals for the second time by
the players from Santiago.
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The United
States is the instigator of the anti-China campaign
April
15.08
JOSÉ Ramón Fernández, president of the Cuban Olympic
Committee, has confirmed that the United States is
leading the campaign against China and attempting to
hinder the organization of the forthcoming Olympic
Games.
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Russia opposes
boycott of Beijing Olympics
April
9.08
MOSCOW.— Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Alexander Zhukov, speaking to reporters in
Beijing on Wednesday, reaffirmed his country’s
opposition to the boycott of the 2008 Olympic Games,
a measure called for by a number of countries and
organizations.
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Mexican swimmers with Olympic dreams training in
Cuba
March
28. 2008
MEXICAN swimmers
Amaury Rodríguez and Miguel Robles are currently in
Cuba in search of practice and more intensive
training with a view to winning the minimum mark for
classifying for the Beijing Olympics.
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Chocolate: much more than a boxer
March
27. 2008
ALTHOUGH in some official documents, January 6,
1907 appears as the date of birth of Eligio Sardiñas
Montalvo - Kid Chocolate for Cuba and the world of
boxing – the true story is that the Kid first saw
the light of day on October 28, 1910 in the
dilapidated rooming house 6 Santa Catalina St,
between Piñera and Lombillo Streets, in the busy
Havana neighborhood of Cerro.
• PEDRO LUIS LAZO
Best
pitcher in the history of Cuban baseball
March
27. 2008
RIGHT-handed pitcher Pedro Luis Lazo has notched
up 235 victories throughout his career and has
subsequently become the top-scoring pitcher in the
history of Cuban baseball.
•
Cuba condemns campaign to undermine
Beijing Olympics
March
24. 2008
EVER since the International Olympic Committee
agreed in 2001 to make Beijing the host of the 2008
Olympic Games, the government and people of the
People’s Republic of China have assumed the event’s
organization with an unsurpassed sporting spirit and
great responsibility, sparing no resources or
efforts.
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PRE-OLYMPIC SOCCER
Cuba demonstrates
its level
March
20. 2008
The island’s
team that competed for Olympic classification
informed Granma International that for the
first time they were sure that they were going to
classify, given the level the players had reached.
• CUBA TAKES 5TH AT
WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Yargelis
Savigne, queen of the triple jump
March
18. 2008
WITH her most recent jump for the gold, Yargelis
Savigne was crowned World Indoor champion in the
women’s triple jump at the IAAF Athletics World
Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain.
•
Iván Pedroso
speaks from the heart
March
7. 2008
IVAN Pedroso, five-time World champion in the
indoor long jump, has yet to include the word "retirement"
in his vocabulary, although he knows the name of his
successor, Panamanian Irving Saladino, for whom he
predicted great success.
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