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A large batch of enthusiastic youngsters, ages ranging from ages six to 16-years-old emerged yesterday from a two-week cricket camp at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda, equipped with new-found cricket knowledge and in some cases, improved cricketing skills.

CONCACAF U15 Women’s Qualifiers After back-to-back wins in the CONCACAF Women’s U15 qualifiers, the Junior Lady Jags could not make it three wins in a row, falling to a 2-1 loss at the hands of host nation Aruba.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Algeria’s Imane Khelif, the female boxer thrust into the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Games, made a statement on her womanhood after beating China’s Yang Liu to take the welterweight Olympic gold medal, sending her newfound devotees into delirium on Friday.

Of the 32 teams that initially started the Kares One Guyana T10 Tapeball competition, only eight remain and this will be further whittled down to four semi-finalists by the end of tomorrow when the quarter-finals are played at the Enmore Community Centre Ground.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino surged to victory in the 400 metres to add Olympic gold to her world title on a rainy night at the Stade de France yesterday and said she hoped her achievement would inspire youngsters in her country.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Arshad Nadeem’s home village erupted into rapturous celebrations after he clinched Pakistan’s first Olympic medal in athletics, winning gold in the men’s Javelin and knocking defending champion Neeraj Chopra of arch-rival India into second place.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Spain secured the gold medal in the Olympic men’s football tournament after substitute Sergio Camello scored twice in extra time to earn a dramatic 5-3 win over hosts France in a nail-biting final at Parc des Princes yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rai Benjamin finally got the better of great rival Karsten Warholm to win the Olympic 400 metres hurdles title yesterday, continuing the United States’ athletics gold rush and foiling the Norwegian’s bid to be the second man to retain the title.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Canada won the men’s Olympic 4x100m relay for the second time yesterday after hot favourites the United States messed up a changeover yet again and were disqualified.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam won her third successive Olympic women’s heptathlon gold medal on Friday, all but securing victory with a big javelin throw to deny Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson who battled to the silver.

(Reuters) – Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the men’s Olympic 200 metres title yesterday when he powered clear of American duo Kenny Bednarek and a COVID-hit Noah Lyles to claim Botswana’s first Olympic gold medal.

CMC – West Indies’ left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican struck late to leave the first Test against South Africa evenly poised at the end of yesterday’s second day at the Queen’s Park Oval.

CONCACAF Girl’s U-15 Football Guyana recorded their second consecutive win in League C of the CONCACAF Girl’s U-15 Championship following a 1-0 win over Guadeloupe yesterday at the Guillermo Prospero Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad, Aruba.

(Reuters) – American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 metres hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title yesterday.

(Reuters) – American Grant Holloway finally added Olympic 110 metres hurdles gold to his sizeable trophy cabinet yesterday, exploding out of the blocks as usual before cruising to victory.

Approximately 100 entrants have been confirmed from the 16th edition of the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee-organised Guyana Cup Horse Racing Championship, which is slated for Sunday at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice.

KFC Elite League Santos pursuit of a top-four finish in the KFC Elite League suffered a minor setback as they were held to a scoreless draw by Monedderlust last evening at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Victory Valley Royals will oppose Block 22 Flames in the final of the Kevin Joseph/Team 13 U-23 Basketball Championship tomorrow evening at the Amelia’s Ward Hard Court, Linden, following semifinal wins.

(Reuters) – Chang Yuan became the first woman boxer to win Olympic gold for China by beating Turkey’s Hatice Akbas by unanimous decision in the women’s bantamweight final at the Olympics yesterday.

Ricardo Narine reclaimed the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) National Junior Championship, besting the challenge of a talented field in the nine-round event at the David Rose Special School.