GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – Former Olympic champion Liu Xiang raised a collective sigh of relief across China yesterday when he coasted to victory in his opening heat of the 110m hurdles to remain on track for his third straight Asian Games title.
National swimmer Ronaldo Rodrigues lost his 50m backstroke race to Travis Henry to miss out on a clean sweep of all 10 of the events that he participated in at the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) National Championships that ended last Sunday at the Castellani Swimming Pool.
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will hold a press conference this morning at its headquarters, to update the media on the participation of the Golden Jaguars in the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals in Martinique later this week.
Defending men’s champion Guyanese Avinash Persaud was in a devastating mood in retaining his title while Christine Sukhram secured the lion share of prizes in the ladies category at the rain-affected two-day R1 Vodka sponsored Guyana Open Golf championships played at Lusignan golf Course over the week-end.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Colin Borde has quit as manager of the Trinidad and Tobago team.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Full itinerary of the 2011 Caribbean Twenty20 Championship scheduled for January 10-23 in Antigua and Barbados next year.
Junior swimmers Britany van Lange and Ronaldo Rodrigues have been selected by the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) to compete at the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Short Course World Championships which will be held from December 15 – 19 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
NAGPUR, India (Reuters) – Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni batted with supreme authority yesterday to steer India into a huge lead as New Zealand were left with an uphill task of batting out two days to save the deciding test.
LONDON (Reuters) – A courtside entourage including former Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona watched Novak Djokovic open Group A at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Czech Tomas Berdych.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is to compete in a triathlon event in New Zealand after he finishes his competitive cycling career at January’s Tour Down Under in Australia, organisers have said.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Azhar Ali fell 10 runs short of a maiden test century as Pakistan reached 317 for six at the close on the third day of the second test against South Africa at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium yesterday.
Suriname was the overall winners of the second leg of the Inter-Guiana Games which came to an official close last night
Persaud, Sukhram retain Guyana Open titles
Guyana’s junior national basketball team once again suffered a heart wrenching defeat to Suriname in the championship basketball game of the second leg of the Inter Guiana Games at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last evening.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Constant criticism leading up to the Ashes may actually work in Australia’s favour, galvanising an under-pressure team against a more settled England side, former Australian opener Matthew Hayden believes.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – In the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province of Pakistan, young women is expected to settle down to married life and raising a family.
The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation yesterday issued a press statement in response to allegations of exploitation of clubs and players by president of Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba.
Guyana’s male and female cyclists were in dominant form yesterday morning taking the first and second spots in the female 40km road race and first and third places in the male 60km road race
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Shane Shillingford being reported for a suspected illegal bowling action has overshadowed Sulieman Benn’s return, and has conspired to distract West Indies ahead of the pivotal second Test against Sri Lanka, starting tomorrow (midnight Monday Guyana time) at the Premadasa Stadium.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Kirk Edwards fell just short of his second first-class hundred, but Khurram Manzoor succeeded in scoring his 13th, as West Indies-A drew with Pakistan-A in their badly rain-affected, opening four-day “Test” yesterday.
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