Cuba Archive

  • Cuba comes through on opening round of Montreux Volley Masters

    Cuba comes through on opening round of Montreux Volley Masters

    China, U.S., Cuba win with surprises at Montreux Volley Masters Cuba created a nice surprise, defeating the Netherlands 3-1 in the opening game of Montreux Volley Masters on Tuesday, while the United States and China both well started. China beat Poland and the Americans defeated...

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  • The Caribbean shines at Laussane, Switzerland track meet

    The Caribbean shines at Laussane, Switzerland track meet

    Usain Bolt ran the fourth-fastest 200 meters in history, finishing in 19.59 seconds at the Athletissima meet Tuesday despite chilly weather and a track slowed by a downpour. His time was 0.01 seconds slower than what Tyson Gay ran in May in fair weather and...

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  • Robles on form

    Robles on form

    Dayron Robles showed that his recent world record run was no fluke by posting 12.96s in the recently concluded 110m hurdles event at the Lille Metropole yesterday. This was Robles second race since his world record run in Ostrava. In the race Petr Svoboda of...

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  • Cuba on target after win over Antigua

    Cuba on target after win over Antigua

    Close though the score may be, Cuba is still 3 points the richer after a win over Antigua in St. Johns on June 17. The hosts seemed intent on upsetting the apple cart with two strikes from Kerry Skepple but Jaine Valencia and Yoel Colome...

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  • Robles sets World Record in Ostrava

    Robles sets World Record in Ostrava

    Liu Xiang has been replaced at the top of the 110M hurdles standings. Cuba’s Dayron Robles set a world record in the 110M hurdles when he shaved 0.01s from the current record to finish in a time of 12.87s. He lead the rest of the...

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  • Cuban women volleyballers take home the crown

    Cuban women volleyballers take home the crown

    Cuba’s women volleyballers have done their country proud by winning the Abu Dhabi International Women’s Volleyball championship. They came from behind to top Holland 3-1 (23-25, 25-16, 25,20, 25-22) at the Al Jazira indoor stadium. Though Holland jumped out to the early lead, Cuba exhibited...

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  • Cuba beat Bahamas

    Cuba beat Bahamas

    In the opening rounds of the CONCACAF U-20 campaign, Cuba sought to assert their dominance early with a 5-0 thrashing of the Bahamas in Havana. With goals from Barbaro Adrila, Marcel Hernandez, Alberto Palmero, Lazaro Garcia and Hebiel Cordoves, Cuba opened the floodgates at the...

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  • Cuban women volleyballers take home the crown

    Cuban women volleyballers take home the crown

    Cuba’s women volleyballers have done their country proud by winning the Abu Dhabi International Women’s Volleyball championship. They came from behind to top Holland 3-1 (23-25, 25-16, 25,20, 25-22) at the Al Jazira indoor stadium. Though Holland jumped out to the early lead, Cuba exhibited...

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  • CONCACAF women make run for gold

    CONCACAF women make run for gold

    The Olympic qualifiers are now on for Women’s soccer in the region. The qualifiers thus far have yielded some rather interesting results, the most astounding ones being the Cuban victory over the British Virgin Islands – 21:0 and the Trinidad and Tobago win over St....

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  • Dayron Robles pulls stunner to win 110M hurdle

    Dayron Robles pulls stunner to win 110M hurdle

    World and Olympic champion Xiang Liu got a shocker as he was beaten in front of his home crowd by Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles. Robles clocked 13.01s, a top meet time, to beat Anwar Moore and Liu.

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