Paris -The majority of French people supports the Paris bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A TNS Sofres poll showed that 65 percent of the 1,800 thousand people interviewed, supported the project.

Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez, best player of Latin America, will fight for the crown of the Cuban Men's National Chess Championship in addition to the also GM Yunieski Quesada, third seed of the tournament that started last Tuesday in this city.

Berlin-An exhibition devoted to the German former pilot Michael Schumacher was inaugurated today in the presence of his relatives in the German city of Marburg in West Germany.

Cuban baseball players and brothers Yuliesky and Lourdes Gurriel defected in the Dominican Republic in early hours Monday.

Havana -The Cuban National Antidoping Laboratory -which will reach 15 years of age on Febrary 13- will be in charge of the doping controls practiced by the Costa Rican sports authorities during 2016.

Tokyo - The president of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), Sebastian Coe, admitted today the process to recover public trust after the doping and corruption scandals that rocked the organization will be a long and difficult one.