Guyana’s Goodwill Games gold medalist, Britany van Lange, and team mate Ronaldo Rodrigues won their respective heats of the women’s 50m freestyle and men’s 50m breaststroke events yesterday at the FINA (World Swimming Federation) World Championships (25m) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Four national women cricketers who have been selected to tour India with the West Indies women’s team early next year recently received a large monetary donation from the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA).
The `A’ and `B’ chess teams from St. Stanislaus College are in the lead after three completed rounds of the national Schools Chess Champion-shsips which commenced yesterday at the Carifesta Avenue Sports Complex on Carifesta Avenue.
They went and they conquered. Fruta Conquerors last evening went to the Enmore Community Centre ground and emerged with a 4-3 win on penalty kicks against Victoria Kings in the second game of the 21st annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament .
Guyanese swimmers participating at the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swim Meet carved out a number of new personal best (PB) times on Thursday.
Guyana’s junior swimmer Ronaldo Rodrigues recorded two more personal best times when he participated in the men’s 50m butterfly and 200m breaststroke events yesterday at the FINA (World Swimming Federation) World Championships (25m) in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai.
The Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) of Guyana will get the ball rolling early in the New Year when they bowl off their Inter-Jamaat Tapeball round robin cricket competition.
TORONTO, Canada, CMC – Ashish Bagai has returned to lead a Canada 15-man squad announced for next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship in Antigua and Barbados.
PERTH, (Reuters) – Mercurial paceman Mitchell Johnson rediscovered his lost form to help Australia skittle England for 187 and wrest back the initiative on a pulsating second day of the third Ashes test yesterday.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Unbeaten centuries by Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla put South Africa totally in control against the inconsistent India attack on the second day of the first test yesterday.
A punch has not yet been thrown but the tension is at fever pitch for the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Champion of Champions tournament which begins tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) from 19:00 hours.
President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K. Juman-Yassin has urged cricketers to elevate their standards on as well as off the field and to project their life after cricket.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr was arrested at a Las Vegas casino on a misdemeanor battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his gated community, authorities said yesterday.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s newest batting recruit Runako Morton has dismissed any idea of acrimony when he faces his old team the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Windward Islands selectors have retained the bulk of their one-day squad for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship campaign next month.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics extended their season-high winning streak to 12 games with a 102-90 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday.
(Cricinfo) Brad Hodge has been given some hope of playing for Australia again, after being named in the preliminary 30-man squad for next year’s World Cup.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – A spectator was ejected from the ground yesterday after India pace bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth complained to the umpires about verbal abuse on the second day of the first test against South Africa.
Sport Minister Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday described the signing of the contract for ‘phase one’ of the construction of Guyana’s first synthetic track as “something quite historic” when the deal was inked at the construction site, Leonora, West Coast Demerara.
It was a terrific start to the 21st edition of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament when two teams progressed to the quarterfinal round and two others exited the tournament on Wednesday night at the Georgetown Football Club ground.
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