Sports

Eight-time Caribbean Squash Champions, team Guyana has returned with the Caribbean Girls championship title, overall championship title and third place title in the boys championship.

LONDON,  CMC – The much anticipated track and field segment of the London Olympics runs off today with the first round of the women’s 100m expected to be the highlight, but with most waiting with baited breaths for the showdown between Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake later in the weekend.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps became the first male swimmer to win the same event at three successive Olympics when he clinched the men’s 200 metres individual medley gold medal at the London Games yesterday.

The Inter-Ministries/Corporation seven-a-side football tournament which was scheduled to have its semi-finals and finals played last Sunday at the Banks DIH Thirst Park Ground has to be rescheduled  due to inclement weather.

FOURSQUARE, Barbados,  CMC – Jamaica’s batmen won an intriguing battle with Guyana’s spinners to eke out a narrow first innings lead of three runs on the second day of the second round match of the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship at Foursquare Oval here yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – An irresistible force met with a very moveable object on Thursday and the result was a record-breaking scoring spree for the U.S.

PINE BASIN, Barbados, CMC – Windward Islands managed to grab first innings points over Trinidad and Tobago as seventeen wickets tumbled for 193 runs on the penultimate day of their second round match in the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.

LONDON,  CMC – Trinidadian George Bovell, the only Caribbean athlete in action yesterday, produced a strong performance to qualify for Friday’s final of the men’s 50 metres freestyle here at the 30th Olympiad.

BAYFIELD, Barbados,  CMC – Captain Shai Hope led by example to strike his second century in as many matches as Barbados took full control of their encounter in their second round match of the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship against the Leeward Islands here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British middleweight Anthony Ogogo caused the first big boxing shock of the Olympics yesterday, upsetting gold medal favourite Evhen Khytrov in front of a vociferous crowd that included Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The 2012 Olympic velodrome proved itself more than just a pretty face yesterday as the Games’s most beautiful venue produced six world records and a gold medal for the hosts on a unforgettable first night of track cycling.

LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – Alviro Petersen punished England for dropping him early on by scoring his fourth test century as South Africa reached 262 for five at the close of the first day of the second test yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Teenager Kirani James’s biggest improvement has had to come off the track since a shock 400 metres world title last year propelled him into the limelight, his coach Harvey Glance said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Wimbledon champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams were on course for further success at the All-England Club after booking their places in the Olympic singles semi-finals yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Just 10 days after triumphing in the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins won the Olympic cycling time trial  yesterday on a golden day for hosts Britain, but a badminton match-throwing scandal left a sour taste on Day Five of the London Games.

From Orin Gordon in London Guyana’s 15-year-old swimmer Britany van Lange went out in the first round of the women’s 100M freestyle on Day 5 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Inspired by the dream of a series sweep, West Indies will be gunning for another win against New Zealand when they second and final Test bowls off at Sabina Park here today.

After two rounds of matches Team Rum leads the 2012 Sharpshooters Paintball competition which is being held at the Timehri Rifle ranges.

With Guyana failing to medal in both swimming and judo, two out of the three sporting disciplines they are participating in at the 2012 London Olympics, all eyes will now be on the track and field segment for a possible medal when the competition runs off tomorrow at the London Olympic Stadium.

By Neil Barry A group of former national badminton players and enthusiasts have embarked on a mission to expand and promote the sport of badminton throughout Guyana.