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NEW YORK, CMC – American Ted Howard will return to the post of CONCACAF’s deputy general secretary, following the appointment of Colombian Enrique Sanz as general secretary.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – A dispute between the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) and the state-operated Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) could threaten the country’s participation in London 2012, the head of the POA said yesterday.

FOIX, France,  (Reuters) – Luis Leon Sanchez broke away on his own to clinch the fourth Tour de France victory of his career in the 191.5-km 14th stage  yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Defiant West Indies withstood a brilliant Ross Taylor hundred to beat New Zealand by 24 runs in the fourth One-Day International and clinch a series win over a top eight ICC side for the first time in four years here  yesterday.

The worry was that it was too good to be true.

Leading junior swimmer Britany van Lange swam 1:03.68 in the 100m freestyle to achieve a Goodwill “A” qualifying time in that event as the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association  trials continued yesterday at the The multiple Goodwill gold medalist, also swam a Goodwill Games “B”

Failure to develop female football in the Rupununi will eventually lead to young women losing interest in the sport, according to senior footballer Lorian Toney.

LONDON, CMC – Olympic legend Carl Lewis has cast doubt on sprint sensation Usain Bolt repeating as 100 metres champion at the London Olympics starting later this month.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday defeated the USA-based Friends and Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) team in a memorial match for the late DCC player Andrew Lyght.

Trophy Stall has joined the list of supporters of the Inter-Market/Municipality Futsal tournament which commences later this month at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan stroked a fantastic even hundred to propel Leicestershire to a dramatic four-wicket win over Worcestershire in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Championship here  yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell This year’s sixth Annual ‘Ride for Life’ 226-mile five-stage cycle road race which is set to  pedal off in the first week of October is gearing up to be better than last year’s event, according to Director of Sport Neil Kumar and National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed.

Junior player Khalif Gobin will next come up against the defending men’s singles champion Anthony Downes after he held his own against veteran player Harry Panday in a men’s singles match of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Open competition last Friday at the GBTI Recreational Centre, Bel Air.

LE CAP D’AGDE, France, (Reuters) – German Andre Greipel snatched his third Tour de France win this year when he outsprinted Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan to claim the 13th stage yesterday.

Caribbean Under-15 silver medallist Chelsea Edghill has failed to advance to the last 16 of the Latin America junior championship in Mexico after placing third in her group.

When the two teams met last year in the semi-finals of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition Wismar/Christianburg showed their superiority on the way to winning the match and advancing to the finals.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies have fallen to one from bottom of the pack in the International Cricket Council Test rankings.

LONDON, CMC – World champion Kirani James warmed up for his first-ever assault on an Olympic medal with a victory in the men’s 400 metres but Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce tasted defeat on the final day of the London Grand Prix here  yesterday.

NEW YORK, CMC – CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, has appointed Colombian Enrique Sanz as its new general secretary.

The ‘Closer’ has done it again. With an unprecedented silver medal run, Guyanese sprint phenom Kadecia Baird lived up to her uncanny nickname and shut the  curtains on her country’s foray  at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships with aplomb.