Havana, Cuba - Cuba has already reached 20 tickets, figure it expects to increase up to 170, to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

René Romero, methodologist of the high performance department of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER by its Spanish acronym), told reporters that the berths are distributed so far in shooting, with seven, boxing (5), rowing (3), wrestling (2), pentathlon ( 2) and canoeing ( 1).

Havana - An office for monitoring and analysis of domestic and foreign Baseball matches was created in Cuba to develop the national sport in this country.

Heriberto Suarez, the highest authority of baseball in Cuba, told the Jit weekly review that this sort of observatory is a long-range strategic weapon whose fruits will be palpable soon.

Havana - Besides being High Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis is an unconditional fan of Argentinean soccer club San Lorenzo de Almagro, who now brings his sermon to Cuba, land of syncretism and baseball.

That's right, previous Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a "crow", emblem of the San Lorenzo's followers, seeing since he was a kid the blue-red cyclone in the old Gasometer of the Almagro neighborhood and never hid his love for soccer.

Havana, Cuba - The minister of Sports and Youth of the Republic of Mali, Housseini Amion Guindo, is paying an official visit to Cuba at the invitation of the National Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute.

The African official was welcomed at Havana´s Jose Marti International Airport by the Cuban Sports minister Antonio Eduardo Becali.

Havana, Cuba - Cuba was invited to participate with six athletes in the World Junior Judo Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as well as to assist with two others to a training base in Brazil.

Rafael Manso, national commissioner of this martial art, told Jit sports publication that the Asian contest, from October 23 to 27, will be attended by three women and three men, coached by trainers Driulis Gonzalez and Julio Alderete, respectively.

Baku - The Chess World Cup 2015 Baku starts today in this capital with the initial matches in the first 64 bilateral duels determined by the location of each chess player in the world list.

The list of foreign competitors does not have the first two in the world's ranking, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Indian Viswanathan Anand, the only ones from the Top Ten who are absent to the event.