Havana, Cuba - Far from the qualifying area to Cuban baseball playoffs with nine days left, the monarch Pinar del Río visits today the solid team of Matanzas, only squad which already reached its ticket to the decisive stage of the championship.

Not even the psychological advantage of playing at home was a catalyst for those coached by Alfonso Urquiola, who in the two recent subseries have been defeated twice by Holguin and Granma respectively.

Havana - Blaise Louembe, Minister of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Gabon, described as very positive his working visit to Cuba and thanked the cooperation offered to his country.

He said: We are here to renew the contract with Cubadeportes Company for us to keep the assistance of Cuban coaches.

He also stressed that to strengthen this cooperation, he toured institutions and centers linked to sports, such as the Anti-Doping Control Laboratory and the Manuel Fajardo University of Science of Physical Culture and Sports, among others.

Beijing - China Dragons today defeated (4-1) the British Lion Hearts in the eighth week of competence of the World Series of Boxing.

In the city of Sanya, visitors could only win once thanks to their super complete Joseph Joyce, who beat by Technical Knock Out in the first assault Serbian Vladan Babic.

Meanwhile, Yong Chang (52 kg) won by split decision (2-1) in a fight against Spanish Jose Kelvin de la Nieve, but the other three Asian victories were by unanimous vote (3-0).

Kingston - Jamica Usain Bolt express his happinesss to be back on the tracks according to an interview done today by The Gleaner.

In the finals of the sprint relays at the London Olympics in 2012 and again at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last year, Usain Bolt got the baton almost even with the anchors for the United States' Ryan Bailey and England's Danny Talbot, respectively.

In both instances, the sprint champion pulled away from the respective anchormen to win convincingly.

Havana, Cuba - In a new opportunity to keep alive the legacy of Terry Fox, the 17th edition of the Marathon of Hope in honor of the young Canadian cancer victim will be held on next March 14th throughout Cuba.

Yves Gagnon, Canadian Ambassador to the Caribbean nation, expressed in the International Press Center in this city proud to share with Cubans -for a second time for him, the experience of an event full of love and solidarity.

The second phase of the 54th National Baseball Series heads to its end. Slightly more than 20 games remain for the qualifying stage to come to an end, a very short tour, which will last very few. And it is not yet clear what teams will be the animators of the playoffs. Matanzas and Granma seem already having got their tickets (although they have nothing guaranteed mathematically) but the other two seats to the playoffs are still in dispute.

After the impasse by the Caribbean Series, the tournament has entered a kind of acute hipocondritis. Suffering day after day, that beyond the strong contention of the sides to qualify, have affected and caused several malfunctions to the event.