Emmerson Campbell

Four days before Guyanese speedsters depart for the first leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) in Jamaica, speed demon; Kevin Jeffrey is in the mindset of a winner.

“Age is just a number, I’m fit, I’m flexible and I could do a lot of things some young fighters can’t do.”

When it was announced that Berbician bodybuilder, Dwayne Mars had posed and flexed his way to this year’s overall National Novices title on Sunday night the expression on his face was priceless and memorable.

There were no surprises when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) yesterday selected its 26-man squad ahead of Saturday’s NACRA senior men’s 15s Caribbean championships home game against Barbados.

When the calendar flips to May, the nation’s best cyclists as well as foreign riders gear up to compete in one of Guyana’s premier cycling events, the annual three-stage road race which will pedal off on Saturday.

“And the winner is Alonzo Greaves,” seems to be the recurring theme at the completion of local cycling events this season.

Renowned for theatre in Guyana for over four decades, the Theatre Guild will tonight be transformed into a serious battleground for chiseled physiques when the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding Fitness Federation (GABBFF) stages its annual Novice and Intermediate Bodybuilding Championships.

On a cool, breezy day at the National Park yesterday, veteran riders Paul Choo-Wee-Nam and Stephen Fernandes blew away a star studded field in the feature 35-lap event of the Powerade 11-race cycle programme.

National cycling coach Hassan Mohamed is of the opinion that this year’s 31st annual three-stage road race which will pedal off next Saturday in Berbice will be more competitive than ever.

After a five-year hiatus, Guyana’s first world boxing champion Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis will be in the ring in the not too distant future.

Following yesterday’s meeting with Minister of Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, Honorary President of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA), Cecil Kennard is optimistic of positive change in the ‘Sport of Kings’.

Guyana’s hopes of winning the Caribbean motor racing championships for the first time since 2010 suffered a blow yesterday when three members of the nine member team were forced to pull out of  the Jamaica leg of the championships set for May 26.

The 28th edition of the Guyana Fight Night ProAm card which was scheduled to box off at the Sophia Exhibition Centre on May 31 has been postponed.

The 47-man national rugby squad continues to prepare assiduously for the NACRA senior men’s 15s Caribbean championships home game against Barbados on May 18.

In excess of 30 chiseled physiques will invade the Theatre Guild stage when the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) hold its annual Novices Championships dubbed ‘Muscle Invasion’ on May 12.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is scheduled to send a team of eight amateur boxers and two officials to Cuba for a month long training and competition stint on June 2.

The first monthly disbursement of the $25,000 stipends was distributed to six elite amateur boxers yesterday.

Eight teams kept their five alive while their opponents were sent packing when the third annual Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ knockout football competition kicked off Wednesday night at California Square, East Ruimveldt.

Despite the recent inclement weather, the spirit of the national rugby squad is far from dampened as the ruggers continue to prepare assiduously for the NACRA senior men’s 15s Caribbean championships home game against Barbados on May 18.

-Almost halfway through their one month training stint in the high altitude country of Colombia, junior national riders Paul De Nobrega, Raynauth Jeffrey, Raul Leal and Christopher Holder say that apart, from bleeding through their noses, they have begun to notice improvements At the midpoint of their 30-day training stint in Colombia, Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year, Paul DeNobrega, along with fellow junior national riders of the Coco’s Cycling Club, Raynauth Jeffrey, Raul Leal and Christopher Holder riders have begun to notice improvement.’