As yet without medals, Cuba's presence is being felt in the Río Summer Games, with the men's beach volleyball duo of Nivaldo Díaz and Sergio González defeating Brazil.

During a ceremony held yesterday evening, August 2, Cuba's single-starred flag was raised in Río de Janeiro's Olympic Village, with the national anthem playing and athletes who will compete in the 31st Summer Games in attendance.

With a community parade and colorful commemoration ceremony, Cubans and Venezuelans celebrated the 12 anniversary of socialist mission Ba­rrio Adentro Deportivo, created by Coman­dante Hugo Chávez in 2004.

Four years ago shooter Leuris Pupo departed for the London 2012 Olympic Games in the hope of fulfilling a dream.

The World Antidoping Agency (WAA) proposed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to consider the total exclusion of Russia from competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a meeting of the WAA Executive Committee, the antidoping agency considered the revelations presented in a brief by experts led by Canadian Richard McLaren, on an extended doping system, that has spread over Russia, thanks to support from other sources, even governmental ones, starting in the competitons of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.