Guyana women’s hockey team made an impressive start in the Pan American Challenge Cup with a win and a draw in two matches after two days of competition at the Deodoro Hockey Complex in neighbouring Brazil.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s head swimming coach has warned the country’s elite swimmers they will win nothing at next year’s London Olympics unless they learn from their world championship flop.
ASTANA, (Reuters) – Amateur boxing organisation AIBA is to set up a professional programme to enhance its standing within the sport, AIBA President Wu Ching-Kuo said yesterday.
Mark Lewis sped away with the Bankers Trust Pre Emancipation Day Cycling event last Sunday in Linden.
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps is eagerly anticipating a showdown with Ian Thorpe at next year’s London Olympics, should the Australian choose to race the men’s 200 metres freestyle and set up another ‘Race of the Century’.
NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Tim Bresnan bowled England to a crushing 319-run victory over India in the second test yesterday with a test best of five for 48 as the world number one side capitulated for 158 with a day to spare.
As expected yesterday’s prestigious Group Four races were shared by the two main adversaries Andrew King and Mark Vieira who each won one race
Guyana’s leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo will have his sternest test yet when he comes up against Chris Gayle in the Jam Zone Masters’ Cup T20 cricket tournament later this month at the Providence National Stadium.
Overnight and early morning rain washed out all hopes of play on the first day of the fourth round of the West Indies Cricket Board Under-19 three day competition at the various venues in Georgetown yesterday.
The annual Banks DIH Sevens Rugby competition which was scheduled for yesterday in the National Park was postponed due to the heavy rainfall.
STANFORD, California, (Reuters) – Comeback queen Serena Williams won her first tournament in more than a year when she overpowered third seed Marion Bartoli of France 7-5 6-1 in the Stanford Classic final yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis survived a few anxious moments in the final set to upset top-seeded American Mardy Fish 5-7 6-4 6-4 and win the Los Angeles International yesterday.
(BBC) England centurion Ian Bell was reprieved and allowed to bat on in the second Test against India at Trent Bridge after initially being controversially run out yesterday.
Hikers Hockey Club junior players Jamarj Assanah and Travon Younge have been creating quite a stir inTrinidad over the past two weeks where they have been competing for the Queen’s Park Hockey Team in under 19 and Trinity leagues.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – Eight-time Caribbean champions Trinidad & Tobago have been placed in Group-B with long-standing sporting rivals Barbados, as well as Guyana and Bermuda in the second round of CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former Young Barbados captain Calvin Hope has stepped forward to challenge West Indies fast bowling legend Joel Garner for the post of president of the Barbados Cricket Association.
NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Ian Bell scored an immaculate if controversial 159 that helped put England in command against India at the close of the third day of the second test at Trent Bridge yesterday.
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China’s Sun Yang provided a record-breaking finale to the world swimming championships on Sunday, while Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps set up the potential of a mouth-watering showdown at next year’s London Olympics.
BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – McLaren’s Jenson Button celebrated his 200th Formula One start by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday after a thrilling race decided by tyre choices in the slippery, wet conditions.
Joel Mc Rae had his axe used against him when he fought Edmond De Clou while Orlon ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers snapped his eight-fight losing streak against Barbadian Selwyn Lett in the 17th edition of the Friday Night Fights at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday evening.
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