Havana.- Cuban cyclist Marlies Mejías won the first stage of the Women's International Cycling Tour to Uruguay, which will conclude next Sunday after covering 271.2 kilometers.

Rio de Janeiro.- Several Cubans make up the body of delegates, international officials and referees called to guarantee the 31st Olympic Games, which opening ceremony will be tomorrow in this city.

The National Umpires and Referees Commission said that in the first of these functions the Caribbean island will be present through the president of its cycling federation, José Peláez, and Eugenio Martínez (water polo).

Havana.- Cuban Arlenis Sierra, bronze medalist in the points race event of this year´s track world championship and member of the UCI World Cycling Centre in Switzerland, won the 27th edition of the Women´s Tour de Bretagne, in France.

Arlenis, 23 and only Cuban cyclist that will compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, continued to prove her progress and practically swept through the competition, by winning the final general classification, points classification and youth (U-23) ranking.

Ciego de Ávila.- Yan Carlos Arias, from Las Tunas, wears for the third time the leader's jersey in the third edition of the Guantánamo-Pinar- Havana cycling tour, which runs today its seventh stage.

This is the third stage Arias wins and now he appears escorted in the general classification by Vicente Sanabria, at 20 seconds, and Pedro Mojica (42) in that order.