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BESANCON, France, (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins rode “”probably my best ever time trial” in the ninth stage of the Tour de France yesterday but said it was too early to consider the race as won.

KANDY, (Reuters) – Persistent rain washed out the second day’s play in the third and final test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Pallekele Stadium yesterday.

Marian Academy lost the wrong game to end their undefeated streak in the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) when they fell to the much superior Kwakwani team last Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) 46-66.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – The West Indies team has declared  tomorrow “Runako Morton Day”, as they pay tribute to the late West Indies batsman who died in a car accident last March.

By Emmerson Campbell After capturing the local featherweight title in destructive fashion last month, Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell will return to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to headline this month’s 25th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Fight Night Pro Am card.

Guyana’s lone qualifier for the Latin American junior table tennis championships Chelsea Edghill along with her coach Idi Lewis will depart Guyana today for Mexico where Edghill will participate in the July 10-15 championships.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – As expected, Test batsman Kraigg Brathwaite has been appointed captain of an experienced 15-man Under-19 West Indies squad for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup scheduled for Australia next month.

 By Emmerson Campbell     The 36th annual ‘Teach Them Young’ Cycling Summer Programme which is sponsored by the National Sports Commission (NSC) and conducted by National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed commenced yesterday at the National Park.

By Iva Wharton And then there were eight. From a whopping 154 four teams that entered this year’s Digicel Schools football  championships only eight teams are left standing and will be battling for the four coveted semi-final spots when the quarter-finals takes place tomorrow at various venues.

Holding the fastest junior female 400 metres time ever recorded on American soil by a high school runner, overseas-based sprinter Kadecia Baird will don Guyana colors in an attempt to capture this country’s first World Junior medal.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board said  yesterday it hoped to have a new chief executive in place before current CEO Ernest Hilaire vacated his post in September.

By Emmerson Campbell Local speed ace Mark Vieira powered his V power Mazda RX 8 to two Group 4 victories to reign over rival Andrew King at the GMRSC race meet yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Defending men’s champion Alexander Arjoon produced a sensational come-from-behind performance to defeat  world 76th ranked women’s player Nicolette Fernandes 11/7, 13/15, 9/11, 11/5, 11/2 in the grand finale of the Digicel Senior National Squash Championships at the Georgetown club yesterday.

By Yonalla Dalrymple It plans to be out of this world.

By Iva Wharton St. Ignatius has once again made the Rupununi area proud this time with their advancement to the quarter finals of the Digicel Schools Football tournament.

Dwight Holder, in a time of one hour, 58 minutes rode away from his opponents to capture the Guyana Beverage Company/Flying Ace Cycle Club inaugural Island Mist Water 40-mile road race Monday last.

Team Banks took a comfortable lead of the three-match aggregate Beverage companies Dominoes series against ANSA McAl and Demerara Distillers Limited (El Dorado Conquerors) at the end of the second round played at ANSA McAl head office at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara.

Marian Academy held on for dear life to reach the final of the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) by defeating Plaisance Academy 59-56 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Saturday evening.

The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) will kick start its summer activities today with the annual P&P Insurance Brokers Tennis Camp while the GBTI (Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry) Open will begin on Thursday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Desperate New Zealand have placed a large bounty on the head of in-form West Indies opener Chris Gayle.