By Iva Wharton Fresh from the London Olympics, Britany van Lange is one of 27 swimmers who will represent Guyana at the 2012 Goodwill Swimming Championship being held locally at the National Aquatic Centre from Friday, August 17 to 19.
LONDON, (Reuters) – London looked back on the Olympics yesterday with satisfaction and sorrow, confident it had hosted a successful Games yet aware that the 17-day party was over and it was back to the reality of economic recession and painful spending cuts.
By Iva Wharton Despite their last minute notification Western Tigers Football Club is ready to participate in the fourth annual Inter-Guiana Cup which starts today in Suriname.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Trinidad and Tobago, basking in the glory of its first Olympic gold medal for 36 years, has showered teenaged javelin champion Keshorn Walcott with a number of gifts including a million dollars in cash and TT$2.5 million (US$390 000) home in a high end residential area.
The successful Pre-cadet and Cadet table tennis team which took top honours at the recent championships in Jamaica has come in for praise from none other than former Caribbean men’s singles champion George `The Chief’ Braithwaite himself.
Former Caribbean men’s singles champion and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) certified Course Conductor Sydney Christophe is conducting an ITTF Level One Coaching Course at the Westchester Table Tennis Center in New York State.
Guyana’s Gairy `Superman’ St Clair lost a unanimous decision to Lovemore `Black Panther’ Ndou Friday night in Queensland, Australia for the vacant World Boxing Foundation (WBF) welterweight title.
(Reuters) – Usain Bolt could repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in Australia’s Big Bash League after defending his sprint double at the London Olympics, local media reported yesterday.
Guyana’s top junior lawn tennis player Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round of the First Citizens Investment Services sponsored 2012 International Junior Tennis Tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines and is into the main draw of the competition.
LONDON, CMC – Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown says she is eyeing a fifth consecutive Olympic Games despite her disappointing outing at the 30th Olympiad in London.
Despite the fact that the Hits and Jams Spartans team possess a quartet of the most explosive Twenty20 players in the world cricket, its captain Tyrell Tull is downplaying his team’s chances of winning this weekend’s Jamzone Masters Cup competition which commences Friday at the Providence National Stadium.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic women’s shot put champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC – Opener Sunil Ambris smashed a stunning half-century as West Indies Under-19s crushed Papua New Guinea Under-19s by nine wickets here yesterday to put one foot in the quarter-finals of the ICC Youth World Cup.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina, (Reuters) – The superlatives are once again being heaped upon Rory McIlroy after the Northern Irishman, for the second time in 15 months, blew away the world’s best to win his second major crown.
The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was previously postponed will now be held this Saturday at the Guyana Olympic Association building.
LONDON, (Reuters) – South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee has issued an official statement in response to the continuing fallout from the Kevin Pietersen text-messaging affair.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities are frustrated that foreign athletes who train in the country turned the tables on the east African nation, whose disappointing track and field performance at the London Olympics has kicked off a storm of protest back home.
LONDON, (Reuters) – London bade farewell to the Olympic Games yesterday with a high-octane romp through British pop music, bringing the curtain down on more than two weeks of action at the end of which the United States topped the sporting world with 46 gold medals.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were undone by Shai Hope’s third century of the tournament as Barbados snatched first innings points on the final day of their top-of-the-table fourth round clash in the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Bud Winter, the American sprint coach who mentored a generation of world record-holders including Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held a series of seminars in Jamaica in 1966.
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