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LE LIORAN, France,  (Reuters) – Riders were in a  state of shock on the first rest day of the Tour de France after  Sunday’s chaotic and crash-strewn ninth stage.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turkish police detained 22  people including the chairman of Trabzonspor yesterday in a  widening match-fixing investigation which has already put 26  people in jail pending trial, broadcasters said.

BROWARD COUNTY, Florida, CMC – Aggressive Jamaican opener John Campbell hammered a scintillating century as West Indies Under-19s crushed the United States Under-19 by 268 runs in their second match of their tour here Sunday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s typically defiant 23rd Test hundred, and two crucial wickets for Ravi Rampaul helped West Indies escape with a draw in the third and final Test against India yesterday.

Ashley Khalil is in seemingly good form as she downed her Guyanese counterpart Mary Fung-A-Fat in the girl’s under-19 category on Saturday at the Georgetown Club Courts to advance to the final of the Digicel Caribbean Junior Squash Championships.

Defending Champions, Kwakwani Secondary held off McKenzie High School on Saturday to make it into the finals of the 2011 National Schools’ Basketball Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Asafa Powell led  home a Jamaican 1-2-3 in the 100 metres at the Diamond League event in Birmingham yesterday although the damp conditions meant  the former world record holder had to be content with a time of 9.91 seconds.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday opined that the existing problems within the Guyana Cricket Board have in some way contributed to the inefficient manner in which the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been managing regional cricket.

CORDOBA, (Reuters) – Substitute Fred struck in the  final minute as Brazil came from behind to draw 2-2 with  Paraguay in Group B at the Copa America on Saturday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Andre Agassi was inducted into  the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, almost five  years after he retired from the game.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – An Istanbul court jailed the  chairman of league champions Fenerbahce yesterday pending trial  on charges of match-fixing, in an investigation which could  result in the club being stripped of their title.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso  won the British Grand Prix yesterday for Ferrari’s first victory  of the season at the same circuit where 60 years ago they had  enjoyed their first success in Formula One.

CORDOBA, Argentina, (Reuters) – Lionel Messi’s  Argentina put their Copa America fortunes on the line today  (0045 GMT Tuesday) against a Costa Rica side assembled at the  last minute.

ST FLOUR, France,  (Reuters) – France’s Thomas  Voeckler seized the Tour de France reins in a crash-ridden ninth  stage yesterday with more favourites caught up in the carnage.

INVERNESS, Scotland, (Reuters) – Luke  Donald tightened his grip on the world number one position  going into the British Open when the Briton swept to a Scottish  Open victory yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Kirk Edwards joined an elite band of batsmen to score a century on Test debut but West Indies let their advantage and slip late on the penultimate day of the third and final Test against India yesterday.

Tagnarine Chanderpaul, the son of West Indies player Shivnarine Chanderpaul, top scored with 37 but could not find support from team member, as Jamaica took first innings points over Guyana at Honeymoon Park, in the opening day of the 4th round clash.

SILVERSTONE, England, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Australian Mark Webber roared back to form and denied world champion team mate Sebastian Vettel a third successive British Grand Prix pole position at a damp Silverstone yesterday.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes yesterday denied a request by Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) executive member Claude Raphael, to stop today’s Annual General Meeting and elections.

The Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) Elite Team crushed the National Schools Basketball Festival’s (NSBF) First Team when the all-star game concluded at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Friday.