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The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has named its junior team to represent Guyana at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Caribbean Junior Squash Championships which will be held in Jamaica July 20-26.

Motivational speaker and former National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Wali Jones will be gracing the shores of Guyana for the first time to conduct clinics as part of the National Community Basketball League (NCBL) International Allstar Weekend this Saturday.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake will offer the world a tantalizing taste of what may be in store at the London Olympics when the two speedsters go head-to-head at the Jamaica national athletics championships starting today.

EUGENE, Oregon,  CMC – Former Olympic sprint champion Maurice Greene has dismissed the notion that Jamaican Usain Bolt can rescale the lofty heights of 2008 when he established two mind-boggling World records in the 100 and 200 metres.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Briton Mo Farah retained his 5,000 metres title at the European athletics championships  yesterday while seven athletes were disqualified in the men’s 400 metres heats for running outside their lanes.

By Iva Wharton The Business School was all business yesterday as the eliminated Queen’s College from the Digicel Schools football competition with a 2-1 victory.

By Iva Wharton Organising Secretary of the Norman Singh Turf Club Compton Sancho said yesterday that the advent of Digicel into the horse racing industry was a fillip for the sport.

Three teams on Saturday booked quarter final places in the Kalden Organisation’s Inter Ministry/Corporations seven-a-side football competition following matches at the Banks DIH Limited Thirst Park ground.

An ailing basketball league suffering from a lack of fan support should spring back to life when the organizers stage their All Star weekend this weekend.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal needed a few games to adjust his sights for grasscourt combat at Wimbledon but Serena Williams quickly found her range as the two former champions moved safely into the second round  yesterday.

University of Guyana student/athlete Elton Bollers enhanced his growing reputation by winning the sprint double at the Morvand Jets/Mustang Games in Trinidad and Tobago last week-end.

Guyana’s Winston George produced a late surge in the final of the Invitational men’s 400m to finish second behind Grenadian Bralon Taplin at the Sagicor National Championships in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad last weekend.

The Ramdhani siblings, Narayan and Priyanna, dominated the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) sponsored, junior badminton tournament which ended on Monday at the Queen’s College courts.

Thirty-seven-year-old local sprint queen Alisha Fortune produced an exceptional effort to capture a bronze medal in the women’s `B’ class 200m final at the Sagicor National Championships at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad which ended on Sunday.

By Emmerson Campbell Guyana’s sporting teams’ lack of international experience continues to plague them at the highest level and has resulted in defeats for two of its national teams in recent international encounters.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – West Indies A have made six changes for their three-match one-day series against India A starting here today.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC – Embattled West Indies touched down here Monday to begin preparation for their two historic Twenty20 Internationals against New Zealand.

DONETSK,  (Reuters) – Hugo Almeida will start in attack for Portugal in today’s Euro 2012 semi-final clash with Spain in place of the injured Helder Postiga as coach Paulo Bento is forced into his first change of the tournament.

By Emmerson Campbell “It’s nothing but first round (knockout). He stepped in on the wrong day, wrong time.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Men’s champion Novak Djokovic arrived on court with a golf club, Roger Federer with his own unique brand of magic and Maria Sharapova basking in a Parisian glow as Wimbledon’s headline acts shone in the opening day sunshine  yesterday.