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(Reuters) – English county club Essex have been charged over alleged racism at the club that went on for nearly a decade, following an investigation.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France are among the favourites to win Euro 2024 but their track record in the competition, a series of injuries and some players’ poor form mean Les Bleus will head into the competition without any certainties.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic produced another superhuman effort to subdue Argentine Francisco Cerundolo 6-1 5-7 3-6 7-5 6-3 yesterday and reach the quarter-finals of the French Open, as the top seed shrugged off a knee issue for a milestone win.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – World Athletics has unveiled a new biennial global championship meant to serve as a grand conclusion to the 2026 season, with a record $10 million prize pot on offer and Budapest as the inaugural host city.

-leads rankings after four rounds Reigning National Champion, Candidate Master (CM) Taffin Khan, has had a superb start in defence of his Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) title over the past weekend.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The time for hard-luck stories and excuses is over for England as they head into Euro 2024 with expectations of a first major men’s trophy since 1966 justifiably sky high.

The return of the world class athletics event, the Aliann Pompey Invitational to Guyana’s shores will make for an exciting spectacle come June 22 at the National Track & Field Centre (NTFC) at Edinburgh, West Coast Demerara with several big names in the Caribbean slated to take to the track.

-in T20 World Cup BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – A Player-of-the-Match performance from David Wiese enabled Namibia to hold their nerve in a low-scoring contest and clinch a Super Over win against Oman in the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday in Barbados.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, , CMC – Women’s world 200 metres champion, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica bounced back from defeat in her previous outing to run a season’s best time in one of the highlights of the Swedish athletics gala, the seventh leg of the World Athletics Diamond League series, on Sunday.

EAST MEADOW, New York,  (Reuters) – New York officials are preparing for the “Super Bowl on steroids” as thousands descend upon Nassau County for the clash of arch-rivals India and Pakistan in the group stage of the T20 World Cup on Sunday.

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup By Michelangelo Jacobus The West Indies got their 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaign underway yesterday with a five-wicket win over minnows Papua New Guinea with an over to spare, albeit not without the usual bumpy ride that fans have grown accustomed to.

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden edition Traditional giant Silver Bullets secured a record-tying third title in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship after riddling Hardball Management 5-0 on Saturday evening at the Retrieve Hard-court.

The Guyana Police Force arrested Santos 2-0 when the KFC Elite League resumed on Saturday evening at the National Training Centre, Providence.

The teams of Adam Alves and Fiaz Yamin, as well as Kalycia Fraser and Ricky Romascindo, recorded comfortable wins when the Guyana Tennis Association Doubles Championship commenced on Saturday evening at the National Racquet Centre on Camp Street and Woolford Avenue.

Eagles clawed past Sonics by a 70-65 score-line when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) U-23 Championship continued on Saturday evening at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Defending divisional champions Waramuri and Bartica recorded convincing wins when the 5th edition of the ExxonMobil Boy’s and Girl’s Schools U-14 Football Championship continued at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Nicholas Verwey, Safirah Sumner, and Justin Goberdhan clinched respective divisional titles when the Kraft Mac and Cheese Junior Squash Championship concluded yesterday at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts on Camp Street.

(ESPN) It was far from the confident start to the tournament that West Indies, co-hosts of the T20 World Cup 2024, would have hoped to make, but in the end they avoided adding to an ignominious list of upsets in a format they once dominated.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (ESPN Cricinfo) – USA announced their arrival in the T20 World Cup with a demolition of their rivals Canada in Dallas.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup On a rainy day, which put paid to the West Indies scheduled training session at the Providence National Stadium yesterday, skipper of the two-time ICC Men’s T20 World Cup winner, Rovman Powell, said that his side is confident heading into their world cup campaign on home soil.