The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) awarded the prize for outstanding athlete performance to Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, who won his fourth Olympic crown in Tokyo 2020.
Music by the popular Failde Orchestra and a recognition to the iconic Sanchez family, from the municipality of Jovellanos, will be part of the ceremony to declare baseball as Cultural Heritage of the nation at the Palmar de Junco stadium, in this city (western Cuba).
Cuba maintains official figures of 177 tickets secured and intensifies today the preparation for the First Pan American Games of Cali-Valle, scheduled from November 25 to December 5.
With the smallest sports delegation in 61 years, since Rome 1960, Cuba achieved its best performance at the Tokyo 2020 Games, over what it accomplished in Rio 2016, London 2012 and Beijing 2008.