• MEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
Resurrecting Cuba’s chances
March 1,12
IF there is one test in Cuban athletics which demonstrates tradition, class and strength in world elites, it is the triple jump. For that reason, hopes are high that the country’s performance in this discipline will see a resurrection in the London Olympics, after its absence from the podium in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

• LONDON 2012
Illegal betting threatening Games
February 23,12
THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to continue its battle against the threat of mafia elements controlling illegal betting invading the London Games.

• Cuba’s La Cruz selected as best boxer in the Americas for 2011
February 16,12
HEAVYWEIGHT Julio César La Cruz was selected as best boxer in the Americas for 2011, according to the AIN news agency.

• LONDON ON THE HORIZON
Breaking the barrier
February 16,12
HIGH jumper Víctor Moya is training in Havana’s Pan American Stadium with other athletes on Cuba’s national team, with his sights set on the Indoor World Championship, to take place in Istanbul, Turkey, March 9-11.

• Cuban judokas dominate Arlon tournament
February 2,12
CUBA'S women's Judo team dominated the Open Tournament in Arlon, Belgium, winning four gold medals, one silver and one bronze, competing with 249 athletes from 19 countries.

• DAYRON & ANTÚNEZ
Cubans preparing to attack London hurdles
26.Enero.12
POLISHED technique, strength in attacking the hurdles and speed in the stretch characterize Cuba’s best two athletes who compete in the hurdles: Olympic champion and World record holder Dayron Robles (12.87), and 20-year-old Orlando Ortega.

• 50 YEARS AGO
A new baseball is born
19.Enero.12
CUBAN baseball wasn’t even called what we call it today: the National Series. The press of the era used the term National Amateur Baseball Tournament or simply the INDER Tournament, with four teams emerging from the regional elimination tournaments, in the six provinces existent in the country at the time.

• THE GENESIS OF CUBAN BASEBALL
Pedro Chávez: Baseball is a central part of my life
19.Enero.12
IT couldn’t be any other way for someone who devoted 60 years of his life to Cuba’s passion – baseball. Pedro Chávez González, 75 years of age, still emanates the commitment and assertiveness which defined him during his career as an active player.

• THE GENESIS OF CUBAN BASEBALL
A colossal player from the España sugar mill
19.Enero.12
AT 76 years of age, Edwin Walters’ bearing still recalls the strong physique of his youth. He is a tall man, trim, with long arms and big hands, ideal for playing baseball.

• 50 years of revolutionary baseball
January 12,12
BASEBALL is more than balls and strikes for Cubans; it represents something more: feeling, emotion, passion…

• THE GENESIS OF REVOLUTIONARY BASEBALL
Fidel instilled in us a passion for the sport - Andrés Telemaco
January 12,12
GUANTÁNAMO.— Not even his inclusion on the Cuban national team to play in the 1969 World Championship in Santo Domingo left a greater mark on Andrés Pilotaje Telemaco than January 14, 1962, the day Fidel inaugurated the first Cuban National Series in what is now the Latinoamericano Stadium, and put an end to baseball for profit in the country.

• Yarelis Barrios and the art of discus
January 5.12
CUBA’s best individual female athlete of 2011 has a special talent to make the discus soar. Those who don’t see it that way can ask her rivals in the Diamond League, the World Championship, the Olympics and any other competition in which Yarelis Barrios participates. This 28-year-old Pinar del Río native is, in my opinion, the most consistent athlete currently competing in this specialty.

• Best athletes of 2011
December 29.11
THE notable performance of the Cuban delegation at the Guadalajara Pan American Games, as well as outstanding results in world events made the selection of the country’s Best Athletes of the Year a huge problem.

• REGIONAL ATHLETICS
Cubans inducted into Hall of Fame
December 22.11
SAN JUAN.— Cubans Ioamnet Quintero, Yoel García and Aliecer Urrutia were inducted into the Central American and Caribbean Athletics Hall of Fame, December 18 in Havana, according to the regional federation.

• LORENZO PEREZ
The power of determination
December 22.11
AT times life throws us a curve ball and we are put to the test. The outcome depends on a person’s will power to struggle and overcome adversity. That is precisely what Granma native Lorenzo Pérez has been doing for the last five years and today is filled with pride having won a triple crown at the Gudalajara 4th Parapan American Games

• 100 YEARS LATER
Cuban football’s long history
December 15.11
ON December 11, Cuban football celebrated its centenary and much has been said recently about that first game played on Palatino field between Hatuey and the Rovers – the former winning with a single goal from team captain Jack Orr.

• New international competition plan for baseball
December 8.11
THE International Baseball Federation (IBAF) has announced a new system of international competitions beginning in 2012, designating the World Classic as its principal event.

• Doctor Sócrates dies
December 8.11
BRASILIA.— A moment of silence was observed in all of Brazil's soccer stadiums, accompanied by much applause, during the last day of the National Football Championship in memory of the former player and doctor Sócrates, who died during the dawn hours December 4, at 57 years of age, as a result of an intestinal infection.

• 51st National Series
A new look
December 1.11
PERHAPS never before has the word 'new' been so appropriate. Cuban Baseball's 51st National Series will see the debut of 11 new managers, one more team, an extra six games and two new measures meant to reduce the escalating dominance of the offense.