Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, sport was for Fidel Castro Ruz one of the main courses of the process, as a right and priority for the human being and benefit of the quality of life.

For the Cuban leader, the practice of physical activity was a constant from an early age and made Cuba a world reference, with multiple prizes achieved in both the Olympic Games and World Championships.

The passion for sport, led Fidel to venture from his student stage in disciplines such as baseball, football and basketball, the latter being one of his favorites.

He was the architect of the sports movement with the creation of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), as well as the mass use of sport, linked to education and other spheres of society.

Now the scenario is other and others are the conditions of this small nation blocked and besieged. The feats of Teófilo Stevenson, Alberto Juantorena, Javier Sotomayor, Ana Fidelia Quirot, Iván Pedroso, Felix Savón, Filiberto Ascuy, Mireya Luis, Driulis González, Mijain López and many others who honored the flag in different stages, are the result of a project, unique in this continent.

More than 40 thousand talented children between 12 and 16 years remain concentrated in specialized schools as a guarantee of the future. In them and in the present generation of athletes rests the guarantee of continuing to reap success in the international arena.

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