4th IKD World Cup -T&T emerge as overall champion Although surrendering the overall title to Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana ended the 4th International Karate Daigaku (IKD) World Cup with gold medal performances in the teams Kata, Bunkai, Kumite, and Enbu, respectively, at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.
The mining town of Linden (Region 10) once again showed their prowess in athletics by capturing the overall title at the ExxonMobil Guyana Youth Relay Festival, which was hosted by A Record Chance Inc.
West Demerara powerhouse Pouderoyen Football Club was the recipient of two sets of complete playing kits from overseas-based Guyanese Amabel Clement, who is a former resident of the community.
Three Guyanese are participating in an ongoing Pan Am Junior Badminton Training Camp in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
(Reuters) – Poland’s high jumper Norbert Kobielski has been suspended for the presence or use of a prohibited substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced yesterday, days before the Paris Olympic Games get underway.
(Reuters) – Sri Lanka named all-rounder Charith Asalanka as captain of their Twenty20 side yesterday ahead of a three-match series against world champions India starting this weekend.
(Reuters) – Briton Andy Murray, the first male tennis player to claim two Olympic singles gold medals, said yesterday that he will play the final event of his glittering career at the Paris Games before heading into retirement.
It also announced an expansion in the number of teams in the Women’s T20 World Cup to 16 from 2030 (ESPN) The ICC has confirmed that a review into the conduct of T20 World Cup 2024 will be carried out after the global body set up a panel with three of its board directors – Roger Twose, Lawson Naidoo and Imran Khawaja – to oversee the review and submit findings later in the year.
– Van Lange named captain of Guyana U17 squad In a match shortened by rain, Afraz Budhoo’s XI won the second Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) U17 Trial Match yesterday at the Meten-Meer-Zorg Community Ground, West Coast Demerara.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles S. Ramson, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) , Brigadier Omar Khan and the Colonel Administration and Quartering, Captain Coast Guard Vernon Burnett, MSM, on July 21, 2024, held engagements with the management, coaches and players of Guyana Defence Force Football Club (GDF FC).
-Enoe captures Rapid title FIDE Master (FM) Anthony Drayton emerged victorious, capturing the Open Blitz title at the recently held Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Rapid and Blitz tournament at School of the Nations.
-fielded ineligible player By Michaelangelo Jacobus In a twist ahead of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West/East Bank Demerara Championship final, set for Friday, Jetty Gunners have been disqualified from the championship match after an investigation found that they fielded an ineligible player during their semifinal against Showstoppers.
(Reuters) – Reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is hopeful the knee injury he suffered at Wimbledon will not impact his chances of gold in Paris but says it is not yet healed.
(ESPN) The ball that got Shoaib Bashir going was not even a wicket-taking delivery.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Barbados won the West Indies Under-19 Championship here Sunday after the two-day final against Jamaica ended in a tame stalemate at the Arnos Vale Stadium.
DALLAS, Texas, CMC – Former West Indies white-ball captains, Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran, produced contrasting knocks as MI New York notched their first win in six outings with a four-wicket verdict over LA Knight Riders in the Major League Cricket tournament here Sunday.
NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite on Sunday tried to hastily turn the page on a yet another dismal West Indies batting performance, urging his side to stay “mentally tough”, as he switched his attention to next week’s final Test at Edgbaston.
The duo’s joint statement called Lara’s ‘claim’ of Richards making Hooper cry categorically false (ESPN) Viv Richards and Carl Hooper have strongly hit back at former West Indies team-mate Brian Lara for “gross misrepresentations” in his book – Lara: The England Chronicles.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Australia would not pick a convicted rapist for the Olympics, team chief Anna Meares said on Monday after the Netherlands selected a beach volleyball player convicted of that offence.
(Reuters) – India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir believes veteran batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can both continue playing until the 2027 World Cup if they remain fit but said yesterday that the decision was entirely up to them.
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