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The Ricks & Sari Agro Industries Ltd will collaborate with the Flying Ace Cycle Club (FACC) tomorrow to host the 20th edition of the Regan Rodrigues Memorial Cycling Road Race.

‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Bent Street, Back Circle, and Gold is Money secured respective quarterfinal berths following hard-fought wins in the round of 16 when the 10th edition of the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship continued on Wednesday night.

(Reuters) – If anyone needed any confirmation about Simone Biles’ standing in gymnastics, the sparkling GOAT necklace she slipped on and ecstatically showed off to the camera after she sealed the all-around title at the Paris Olympics yesterday confirmed her number one status.

The Vurlon Mills Football Academy (VMFA) departed local shores yesterday to compete in a U-12 championship in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Reuters) – Iga Swiatek must wait four more years to try and win an Olympic gold medal after the Polish top seed was shocked by China’s Zheng Qinwen in the semi-finals of the tennis tournament, but Novak Djokovic’s hopes are intact despite a scare yesterday.

(CMC) – Cricket West Indies president, Dr. Kishore Shallow, said yesterday it was important to confront the challenges facing the regional game with “honesty and resolve”, while using the current moment of difficulty as a time of “introspection and recalibration”.

Strike Force and 110 secured berths to the semifinal round following quarterfinal victories when the Plaisance Inter-Block 7-Aside Football Championship continued at the Community Centre ground.

(Reuters) – China’s number two seed Fan Zhendong held his ground in the last few minutes of the seventh game against Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto to secure his spot in the men’s singles semi-finals of the table tennis competition at the Paris Olympics.

(Reuters) – Katie Ledecky became the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time but the U.S.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka pacers Matheesha Pathirana and Dilshan Madushanka will miss August’s three-match One-Day International (ODI) series against India due to injuries, ESPNcricinfo reported yesterday.

Traditional giant Western Tigers hopes of a top four finish took a hit on Tuesday evening as they were held by Den Amstel 1-1 when the KFC Elite League continued last night at the National Training Centre, Providence.

North East La Penitence, Festival City, and Road Warriors advanced to the quarterfinal section following hard-fought wins in the round of 16 section when the 10th edition of the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship continued last night.

(Reuters) – Jamaica’s twice 200 metres world champion Shericka Jackson will not contest the sprint double at the Paris Olympics after dropping the 100 from her programme in a move she said was to protect her body.

(Reuters) – French poster boy Leon Marchand and U.S. distance dynamo Katie Ledecky made history while the Paris pool saw its first world record on one of the great nights of Olympic swimming yesterday.

(CMC) – Left-hander Jeremy Solozano forced himself into the selection frame for the upcoming Test series against South Africa with an impressive hundred on day one of the four-day tour match against the tourists yesterday.

(Reuters) – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz stayed on collision course for a golden showdown at the Paris Olympics as they surged through to the quarter-finals yesterday.

(Reuters) – Japan’s Shinnosuke Oka displayed nerves of steel as he capitalised on early errors by the top contenders and fended off a late challenge by China’s Zhang Boheng to win the men’s all-around gold medal at the Paris Olympics yesterday.

YBG All-Star Games Cordel Hoyte’s double-double led his side, Team Yellow, to a hard-fought 59-57 victory over Team Blue in the boy’s U-18 division when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) All Star Games concluded at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Guyana’s third athlete to jump into action at the Olympic Games currently being held in Paris, France, swimmer Aleka Persaud could not get past the Heats in her women’s 100m freestyle event.

(Reuters) – Simone Biles clinched her fifth Olympic gold medal as she made a triumphant return to the women’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Games yesterday, reinforcing her status as one of the world’s greatest athletes just three years after abruptly withdrawing from the same event at the Tokyo Games.