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SILVERSTONE, England,  (Reuters) – Rain put a dampener  on practice for the British Grand Prix on Friday with Red Bull’s  Mark Webber fastest in the morning and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on  top of largely meaningless timesheets after lunch.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – The use of needles  and medical equipment at the London 2012 Olympics will be  tightly controlled by the International Olympic Committee after  it adopted a ‘no needles’ policy yesterday to battle doping.

CHATEAUROUX, France,  (Reuters) – Mark Cavendish  powered to his second stage victory in the Tour de France in a  crash-marred seventh stage from Le Mans which saw fellow Briton  Bradley Wiggins forced out of the race with a broken collarbone  yesterday.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A Turkish prosecutor requested  a court jail the chairman of league champions Fenerbahce pending  trial on charges of match-fixing on Friday, TV reports said, in  an investigation which could result in the club being stripped  of its title.

Guyana’s Dawn Barker ensured that her name is indelibly etched in powerlifting records when she captured a gold medal yesterday at the North American Regional Powerlifting Championships in Miami.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Illness to Ravi Rampaul almost undermined West Indies, but typically rainy weather was again kind to them, and offered a temporary reprieve in the third and final Test against India yesterday.

The Georgetown and East Bank women recorded victories during contrasting circumstances by 154 runs and 3 wickets respectively in the 3rd round matches of the ongoing 2011 Female Inter-Association 50-overs cricket tournament yesterday.

New Amsterdam Multilateral overpowered Brickdam Secondary when the National Schools Basketball Festival continued on Wednesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The track and field fraternity will have to wait a  while longer for their anticipated and overdue synthetic track to be constructed at Leonora on the West Bank of Demerara.

The newly-refurbished Colgrain Swimming Pool on Camp Street is to follow a stricter regime of rules since  its reopening in April in order to prevent overuse.

LISIEUX, France,  (Reuters) – Norway’s Edvald Boasson  Hagen won the sixth stage of the Tour de France, a 226.5-km ride  from Dinan yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A FIFA corruption investigation has concluded there is fresh evidence to support claims that former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and Mohamed bin Hammam colluded to offer bribes of up to US$1 million (£625,000) to Caribbean football officials, according to the London Telegraph newspaper.

RALEIGH, North Carolina,  (Reuters) – U.S. world 100  metres silver medallist Tyson Gay had an arthroscopic procedure  on his injured right hip and will not run again this year, his  manager said yesterday.

The Guyanese footballers currently campaigning in the United States are making the best of their opportunities so far.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Suspended Asian soccer chief  Mohamed bin Hammam is unhappy at the way information was leaked  during a bribery investigation but wants a fair trial when he  appears at a FIFA Ethics Committee meeting later this month.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh  will shrug off his indifferent form and will be a crucial bowler  for India during their tour of England, vice-captain Gautam  Gambhir said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s former two-weight world  champion Ricky Hatton called time on his 14-year professional  boxing career yesterday.

By Colin Benjamin Recently they were rival star players in the just- concluded traditional Berbice vs Demerara showdown in the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) under-19 competition.

Champtress of the Simple Royal stable on the Corentyne Coast captured the feature C class race when the Port Mourant Turf Club in collaboration with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic held a pre-CARICOM Day horse race meet at the turf club last Sunday.

(CMC) Roseau, Dominica – West Indies batting ace Shivnarine Chanderpaul has expressed delight at reaching the milestone of 133 Test matches – making him the most capped Test player in the history of West Indies cricket.