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After his recent success wearing the colours of the Trinidad and Tobago national side Daren Ganga wants to don the colours of the West Indies senior team once more.

By Lloyd Conway Former national cyclist Aubrey Gordon won the gold medal at this month’s 60 kilometres UCI World Masters Criterium Road Race in the men’s 50-54 years age category in Sydney, Australia.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, (Reuters) – The Olympic  flame arrived in Canada yesterday, beginning a 45,000-km  (28,000-mile) trek that will see it crisscross the country  before it arrives at next year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

LONDON, England,  CMC –Marlon King’s agent has blasted Wigan’s decision to hastily sack the embattled Jamaican striker who was slapped with an 18-month jail sentence on Thursday for sexual assault and causing bodily harm.

LONDON, England, CMC – The Jamaica international footballer Marlon King is to be sacked by Wigan Athletic after being sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for sexual assault and causing bodily harm.

LYON, France,(Reuters) – Second seed Gilles Simon  kept alive his chances of reaching the World Tour Finals by  beating fellow Frenchman Julien Benneteau 7-6 6-3 in yesterday’s  Lyon Grand Prix quarter-finals.

(BBC) England batsman Kevin Pietersen is likely to be fit for the one-day series and Test matches against South Africa as he recovers from an Achilles injury.

— President’s Cup Regional One Dayers… Hosts Guyana benefited from the largesse of their own fickle weather pattern as only one of three scheduled second round matches of the West Indies Cricket Board sponsored President’s Cup limited overs competition was played yesterday.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic crushed  leg-weary Caroline Wozniacki to reach the semi-finals of the WTA  Championships while American holder Venus Williams reached the  last four yesterday without hitting a ball.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World record holder Paula Radcliffe says she could break the course record in tomorrow’s New York City Marathon.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Olympic and world sprint  champion Usain Bolt plans to move up to the 400 metres after  setting world records in the 100 and 200.

-EU ambassador Heikens and wife in line-up European Union (EU)  ambassador  to Guyana, Geert Heikens,  is expected to be among a large field of golfers billed to compete in today’s European Union sponsored Medal Play handicap golf tournament at the Lusignan  course on the East Coast of Demerara.

Smiley Faces Table Tennis Club kept on smiling last Saturday as the Kenneth De Abreu league team competition continued at the Malteenoes Sports Club.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – David Summerbell leads a small two-man team for Jamaica to the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) series in Guyana next weekend.

PORTLAND, Oregon, (Reuters) – Carmelo Anthony scored  41 points and 19 in the decisive fourth quarter to propel the  Denver Nuggets past the Portland Trail Blazers 97-94 on  Thursday.

(BBC) Fast bowler Brett Lee has become Australia’s latest injury casualty after he was ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series against India.

-Coach Seeram warns players ahead of B/dos encounterBy Marlon MunroeNot satisfied with his team’s three-wicket win over the Leeward Islands in the opening game of the West Indies Cricket Board-sponsored President’s Cup limited overs tournament, national coach Rabindranauth Seeram has issued a stern warning to his charges as they prepare to take on Barbados in a second round encounter today.

LONDON, England, CMC – Wigan Athletic’s troubled Jamaican striker Marlon King has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old student and causing her actual bodily harm last December.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies selectors will sit down this weekend to pick the 15-man squad and a captain for the much anticipated three-Test tour of Australia.

The third annual Fruta Conquerors organized NAMILCO Football Festival recommences today after the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) lifted their suspension of the tournament following a stabbing incident on the opening night.