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(Reuters) – Coco Gauff was denied the chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after testing positive for COVID and the American says winning a medal at the Paris Games would be on a par with Grand Slam success for her this year.

(CMC) – West Indies Twenty20 captain Rovman Powell says he will try to borrow the detailed planning involved in the Rajasthan Royals setup when he leads his side into next month’s T20 World Cup.

Western Tigers defeated Den Amstel 4-2 in their final match of round one in the KFC Elite League yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

– fixtures will decide roster berths for local players The Golden Jaguars senior men’s outfit will contest two international friendlies against arch-nemesis Trinidad and Tobago, which will be used to select the remaining roster spots for locally based players for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

Waramuri and Queen’s College recorded perfect 3-0 records in their Region #1 and #4 divisions, respectively, when the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Blue Water Shipping U-15 Girl’s National Championship commenced on Saturday.

CONCACAF Nations League The Golden Jaguars senior men’s programme has been drawn in Group A in League A of the CONCACAF Nations League following the official draw ceremony on Monday evening in Florida, USA.

Last week, Guyana’s FIDE Master Anthony Drayton finished tied for fourth place in the Challengers Section of the 2024 Heroes Day Chess Tournament in Barbados.

(CMC) – West Indies women’s captain Hayley Matthews fortified her hold on being the No.

(Reuters) – Borussia Dortmund showed great composure to reach their third Champions League final after Mats Hummels’ second-half goal earned the visitors a 1-0 victory against misfiring Paris St Germain for a deserved 2-0 aggregate win yesterday.

Vengy defeated Classic Ball Blasters (CBB) by a 3-2 score when the Demerara Volleyball Association’s (DVA) Senior Men’s League continued yesterday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Demerara Pitbulls defeated the Berbice Piranhas by eight runs when the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) T10 Championship continued yesterday at the Enmore Community Centre ground.

In the first ever ‘Guyana Media Games’ sponsored by the Office of the Prime Minister and organised by the National Sports Commission (NSC), the ‘Purple Heart Posse’ took top honours as Guyana’s media operatives downed cameras, pens and keyboards to take part in a day of sports at the Eve Leary Ground in Kingston.

After relegating their sister counties Berbice and Essequibo to defeats in the Guyana leg of the Caribbean Airlines sponsored T10 Village Cricket, Demerara flew the Golden Arrowhead high in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday to win the regional title with wins over South East (Trinidad) and St.

Linden came alive on Sunday night as the “One Guyana Kings and Queens Beach Football” came to an end in the compound of the PPP/C Office in Mackenzie, Linden with male outfit Young Gunners and the females of Speightland emerging champions of the competition.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United’s woes this season were laid bare again in their 4-0 Premier League hammering by Crystal Palace yesterday, but manager Erik Ten Hag believes he is the right man to fix a team that is limping to the end of the campaign.

(Field Level Nedia) San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama was voted NBA Rookie of the Year in a unanimous decision yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Batting sensation Jake Fraser-McGurk has shrugged off his omission from Australia’s T20 World Cup squad, saying he felt he had not earned a place yet despite his sparkling form in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

(Field Level Media) The Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks advanced out of the first round without stellar performances from their superstars.

(Field Level Media) The top-seeded Boston Celtics will open their Eastern Conference semifinal series on notice, as they face an opponent that already has expressed it has more to prove.

(ESPN) A sensational unbeaten 102 off 51 balls from Suryakumar Yadav on the back of Piyush Chawla and Hardik Pandya’s three-wicket hauls helped Mumbai Indians (MI) to their fourth win of the season as they got the better of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by seven wickets in Mumbai.