Tag: sports costa rica
Costa Rica Works to Have Its First Olympic Skate Delegation in Paris
Tico skateboarding is growing in popularity and despite its short time as a federated sport, it already places its bar at the top for...
Costa Rican Athletes Example of Perseverance in Tokyo 2020
After the 2020 Olympic Games have come to a close, and where athletes from all over the world have given their best, happy to...
Costa Rica Has a Boxing Champion: David “Medallita” Jiménez
Costa Rican boxer David “Medallita” Jiménez knocked out Mexican Edwin “Canito” Cano, thus claiming the World Gold title from the World Boxing Association (WBA)....
How to Go Trekking Safely In Costa Rica’s Mountains
Unfortunately, getting lost during walks or hikes in the mountains or volcanoes of Costa Rica is not uncommon. In 2020, the Red Cross made...
The Success of The Costa Rican Indoor Soccer Team Is Forged With The Sacrifice...
During the weekend, Costa Rica celebrated the classification of the Indoor Soccer (Futsal) National Team to the Lithuanian World Cup and also the three-time...
Costa Rica is Crowned Three-time Indoor-Soccer Champion at Concacaf
The Costa Rican Futsal (indoor-soccer) team became the three-time Concacaf (Central and Northamerica region) champion this past Sunday. The Ticos team faced the United...
Tico Gamer Lab Vibrated with the Final of FIFA eNations 2021
The young “gamers” Danny Carvajal and Marco Sibaja will be the representatives of Costa Rica in the regional stage of the FIFA eNations Series...
Plogging, the New Fitness Trend that Takes Care of the Environment
Plogging is derived from the Swedish term "ploka", which means to pick up trash while jogging. This idea was born in 2016 in Sweden...
COVID-19 and Soccer Trials Stand Out as the Main News this Past Week in...
Strong criticism of the slow process of vaccination against COVID-19 that forced the Government to speed up immunization and the demand trial of three...
Yokasta Valle Knows What the Key is to Achieve Equal Pay in Costa Rican...
Despite giving a greater performance or obtaining more achievements than men, women have a constant struggle in search of pay equity. The world champion,...
Live Taekwondo Sporting Events Return To Costa Rica
With strict sanitary protocol, constant disinfection, only elite athletes, controlled entry and no public, the Costa Rican Federation of Taekwondo resumed the face-to-face events...
Costa Rica “Autocross Sports Association in Action” Will Carry Out Its National Championship
After a year without activity due to the Pandemic, the Costa Rica Autocross Sports Association in Action (ADDA) refines the details to carry out...
Sexual Harassment in Sports Will Convey Strong Sanctions in Costa Rica
Sexual harassment practices in sports activities must be investigated by each sport organization and, if proven, will result in punishments ranging from written reprimands...
Trans Costa Rica Coastal Nosara, Stage Competition Scheduled for Next May
The organization of the Trans Costa Rica Nosara bicycle race continues to provide good news despite the cancellation of the traditional format for this...
Costa Rica will have its first Special Olympics Gym
Costa Rica will have the first National Sports and Recreational Gymnasium of Special Olympics Costa Rica for the Bicentennial, which will be built in...
Tico Kenneth Tencio Achieved Third Place in the FISE BMX Freestyle World Championship
The national BMX athlete, Kenneth Tencio, won third place in the FISE BMX Freestyle World Championship, one of the events on the main world...
46 Sports Now Have their Health Protocols in Costa Rica
A total of 46 sports disciplines now have complete health guides for the return of athletes to their training sessions, of which four can...
Cabécares Families Will Donate Two Tons of Their Crops to the National Women’s Soccer...
Some 700 bags with plantains, beans, cassava, bananas, lemons, and avocados, among other farm products, will be donated to the players of the national...
Costa Rica Commemorates National Sport and Physical Activity Day
Every March 30th, Costa Rica celebrates the “National Sport and Physical Activity Day”, established by law on October 10th, 1969. This commemoration is intended...
Costa Rica And Its Infinity Of Sports To Practice
Costa Rica has a wide variety of sports is practiced, thus covering a large number of disciplines since the country is suitable for each...
Keylor Navas, a Notable Costa Rican Football Player
Keylor Antonio Navas Gamboa, better known as Keylor Navas, is a soccer player born in San Isidro, Pérez Zeledón, San José, Costa Rica, on...
The National Stadium: Costa Rica's Most Modern Sports Venue
The National Stadium of Costa Rica is an enclosure for multiple sports and administrative uses, being the main one for the practice of Football (soccer) by the National Selection and athletics competitions
Get to Know about the Details of La Vuelta a Costa Rica 2019
From December 16 to 25, the 55th edition of the most important cycling competition that the country performs throughout the year will be held in Costa Rica
The Vargas Sisters and Dixiana Mena Marshals Of The Festival of Lights
The 100-meter hurdles Pan American champion, Andrea Vargas, her sister Noelia and her mother Dixiana Mena, were appointed Marshals of the 2019 Costa Rican...
Costa Rica Will Host the First Surf & Outdoor Expo
The Surf & Outdoor Expo will be held for the first time in Latin America and Costa Rica will be the host of this important event
Costa Rica Is the Ideal Destination for Adventure Sports Tourism
Undoubtedly Costa Rica has become an ideal destination for foreign visitors who want adventure sports tourism at any time of the year. This is...
Andrea Vargas Makes 5th Place at World Athletics Championships Doha ’19
For the first time in the history of Costa Rican athletics, a female athlete comes in fifth place at a world athletics final in...
Kayaking: Find out What’s All About This Extreme Sport
The kayak is a variety of canoe for one to four crew members. In its origin as a single-seater was used for fishing and...
Realistic Winning Percentages and why Sports Gambling can be an Effective Investment Tool!
by Steve ¨Cubby¨ Drumm
The NFL preseason begins this week. Speaking of the NFL, I'm sure that most of you have seen ads over the years...
Ernesto Lobito Fonseca, a Tico With an Indomitable Champion Spirit
In the prime of his motocross career, an accident hindered his life but couldn’t stop him from achieving his goals.
In 2006, newspapers reported that...
