Admiring a person from a distance leaves something to be desired in terms of fairly evaluating their value and determination to face life’s challenges. I experienced this first hand with the runner Omara Durand, although I have always seen in her a reflection of the invincible Cuban woman.
september 10, 2020@ 10:09:17 | Alfonso Nacianceno
OMARA DURAND
"The important thing is that I love this people and the sport," Omara Durand told me in September 2021, when after eight consecutive years training for various events, the Cuban sprinting jewel crowned her successful career in Tokyo-2020, and was about to enjoy an active rest.
august 12, 2022@ 11:08:11 | Alfonso Nacianceno
Ever since the early years of the Revolution, Fidel Castro made concerted efforts to give sport the importance it deserved and transform it into a strong mass movement
november 23, 2017@ 15:11:07 | Alfonso Nacianceno
The Cuban team advances to the sixth stop of the Beach Volleyball World Tour in China, after triumphing in Malaysia
april 19, 2017@ 18:04:15 | Alfonso Nacianceno
2018 Volleyball Men’s World Championship
Puerto Rico and Cuba are the last of the 24 qualifying teams set to participate in the Volleyball Men’s World Championship, which will take place for the first time in two locations: Bulgaria and Italy, in September 2018
november 16, 2017@ 14:11:46 | Alfonso Nacianceno
Fidel and the first Cuban sports delegation to enter the United States, 16 years after the triumph of the Revolution
november 29, 2016@ 15:11:08 | Alfonso Nacianceno
Tears of joy, hugs, handshakes, and kisses join the sweat that floods the body and the mind of a winner, even before the awareness that a champion has been born, who will be honored with gratitude for so much effort
august 12, 2019@ 09:08:39 | Alfonso Nacianceno
THE 23RD CENTRAL AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN GAMES
Training underway since September 28 by Cuba’s pre-selection handball team in the Dominican Republic, will put them in good stead for the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia, next year
october 3, 2017@ 15:10:12 | Alfonso Nacianceno
Santiago chess player Yaniela Forgas won this year’s National Championship, in a tight battle against several of Cuba’s leading female masters
march 2, 2022@ 12:03:46 | Alfonso Nacianceno
Antonio Becali, president ofCuba’s National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation, offered a press conference on the island’s participation in the Barranquilla Central American and Caribbean Games
july 16, 2018@ 14:07:05 | Alfonso Nacianceno y Aliet Arzola Lima