Track and Field

The final and third day of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) Inter-Unit Championships at Camp Ayanganna Ground was postponed yesterday due to heavy rainfall.

Guyana’s World Junior Championship representative Kadecia Baird will not be participating at the Pan American Junior Championships in Miami, Florida which started yesterday.

MONACO, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt does not expect to  lower his 100 metres world record of 9.58 seconds at the  upcoming world championships.

Leslain Baird continued his impressive form on the second day of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter-Unit Championships held at Camp Ayanganna ground yesterday.

Guyana’s 400 metres junior champion, Stephan James will depart today for Miami, Fl;orida, United States of America, to participate in the Pan American Junior Championships from July 22-24.

PADOVA, Italy, CMC – Nesta Carter grabbed a reassuring victory on Sunday at the Atletica Mondiale meet, leading a tiny group of Jamaican competitors that continued to fine tune for this year’s World Championships.

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, CMC – A final day that featured victories for sprint hurdlers Vonette Dixon and Eric Keddo, as well as distance runner Korene Hinds, and the women’s mile relay squad propelled Jamaica to the top of the medal standings at the end of the Central American & Caribbean Senior Championships on Sunday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The battle to keep drugs out of  the London Olympics has started long before the opening ceremony  next July.

Reuters) – Factbox on some of the main substances  and methods used for doping in sport:     ERYTHROPOIETIN (EPO)   * EPO is a peptide hormone that is produced naturally by the  human body.

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, CMC – Olympic sprint relay silver medallist Keston Bledman handed Trinidad and Tobago one of four gold medals on the opening day of the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Championships, when he snatched the men’s 100 metres here Friday.

HEUSDEN-ZOLDER, Belgium, CMC – Veteran Bahamian sprinter Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie took the women’s 100 metres at the KBC Night of Athletics here yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Asafa Powell led  home a Jamaican 1-2-3 in the 100 metres at the Diamond League event in Birmingham yesterday although the damp conditions meant  the former world record holder had to be content with a time of 9.91 seconds.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt comfortably won the 200  metres at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Friday despite  Christophe Lemaitre running a season’s best of 20.21 seconds.

RALEIGH, North Carolina,  (Reuters) – U.S. world 100  metres silver medallist Tyson Gay had an arthroscopic procedure  on his injured right hip and will not run again this year, his  manager said yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt knows he has been short  of his very best form since returning from injury and is keen to  be more like his true self when running the 200 metres at the  Paris Diamond League meeting tomorrow.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Three times  world 200 metres champion Allyson Felix could run in as many as  four events at August’s world championships, according to the  relay pools released by USA Track & Field (USATF) yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian sports ministry has  sacked a Ukrainian track and field coach and ordered a thorough  investigation into an embarrassing doping scandal after eight  athletes tested positive for banned anabolic steroids.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – World athletics has suffered from  a lack of high-profile rivalries due to the growing influence of  money on the sport, long jump world record holder Mike Powell  has told Reuters.

Sprinter, hurdler and triple jumper, Iana Amsterdam will join Kadecia Baird as part of the two-member team to represent Guyana in the 100 metres dash and hurdles events at the upcoming World Youth Championships to be held in Lille, France from July 6-10.

By Treiston Joseph New Silver City Secondary School, with 93 points, yesterday lifted the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) trophy at the annual World Athletic Day track meet held by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) at the Eve Leary Sports Club ground .