Alfredo Despaigne heads Cuban team to Premier12 tournament
Havana - Outfielder and slugger Alfredo Despaigne is heading a total of 37 baseball players forming the Cuban pre-selection roster to determine the national team that will represent the island at the upcoming Premier12 baseball tournament to be held from November 2 to 17.
Cuban Despaigne sets a personal best in homers in NPB
Havana - Cuba's Alfredo Depaigne hit a solo homer in the Pacific League (PL), though he couldn't prevent the 2-4 loss of his team -- the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks-- to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Number of foreign runners increases for Marabana 2019
Havana - Carlos Gattorno Correa, Director of the Marabana/Maracuba Project, reported that a total of 902 runner from 59 different countries have signed up for competing in the biggest marathon event in Cuba, 300 more than last year.
Cuba’s long jumper qualifies top for final at Doha 2019
Doha - Cuban long jumper Juan Miguel Echevarria qualified top for the final in the Men's Long Jump tournament at the World Athletics Championshig which began Friday in Dona, Qatar.
IAAF will be rewarding athletes at World Campionship
Monaco - The International Athletic Federation (IAAF) anounced that every athlete who breaks a world record in the unpcoming Doha 2019 World Championship will recieve a reward of $100 thousand.
Culture
The Cuban Art University (ISA) opened an honorary department dedicated to Fidel Castro’s cultural thinking on Monday as a tribute to the Cuban Revolution’s historical leader, three years after his passing.
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Havana - The 11th International Linguistic Conference 2019, taking place at the Jose Antonio Portuondo Valdor Institute of Literature and Linguistics, began on Monday with the presence of experts from several countries.
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The Los Cuenteros Puppet Theater Company celebrated its 50th anniversary this November 19 at the Museum of Humor, located in San Antonio de los Baños, with the exhibition ''Fifty years telling stories''. The exhibition shows photographs, puppets and costumes used by Los Cuenteros in various performances since 1969.
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