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Former national chess champion Kriskal Persaud makes a move against Anthony Drayton during Sunday’s fifth round of the inaugural Red Cherry tournament at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.
Former national chess champion Kriskal Persaud makes a move against Anthony Drayton during Sunday’s fifth round of the inaugural Red Cherry tournament at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club.

Persaud wins fifth round despite loss to Khan

Despite losing to national chess champion Taffin Khan; former national champion Kriskal Persaud was declared the winner of the penultimate round of the inaugural Red Cherry ladder tournament on Sunday at the Kei-Shar’s Sports Club, Hadfield Street.

Usain Bolt celebrates his 100m win yesterday with one of his trademark poses.

Usain, again!

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt fired up a cool evening at London’s Olympic Stadium as only he can when he retained his 100 metres title with a thrilling reassertion of his status as the world’s supreme sprinter yesterday.

Winners and runners up of this year’s eight annual Reagan Rodrigues cycle road race pose with their winning spoils with National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed and members of the Rodrigues’ family. (Orlando Charles photo)

Persaud makes it two in a row

By Emmerson Campbell Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club rider Robin Persaud made it two in a row yesterday by speeding off with the winner’s trophy of the eighth annual Reagan Rodrigues Memorial 50-mile cycle road race.

Jamaicans celebrate ‘sheer brilliance’ as Bolt sprints to gold

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of Jamaicans who braved the wind and heavy rain to watch outdoor screenings of the Olympic 100 meters final  yesterday, erupted in wild celebration, blowing horns, banging pots and pans and waving flags, as their star sprinter Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt retained his title.

James moves closer to winning Olympic gold

LONDON,  CMC – Grenadian Kirani James came one step closer to adding an Olympic gold medal to his World title when he clocked a season-best time to win his semi-final and surge into the final of the men’s 400 metres at the 30th Olympiad here yesterday.

J/ca put the choke on B/dos

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Lanky pacer Christopher Powell grabbed a five-wicket haul as defending champion Jamaica put the choke on Barbados on the first day of the third series of matches in the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship here yesterday.

Man arrested for throwing bottle at Bolt

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A man was arrested for throwing a plastic bottle at Usain Bolt and the seven other competitors just before the start of the 100 metres final at the Olympics yesterday, London’s Metropolitan Police said.

West Indies Celebrate Their Digicel Series Win vs New Zealand West Indies v New Zealand courtesy DigicelCricket.com/Brooks LaTouche

Windies sweep test series

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Typically stoic batting from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and a career-best knock from Kemar Roach allowed West Indies to formalise a five-wicket victory over New Zealand in the second Test yesterday here.

England toil for wickets as storms intervene

LEEDS, England,  (Reuters) – England failed to make a breakthrough before rain forced the abandonment of play at 1715 (1615 GMT) on the fourth day of the second test at Headingley yesterday as South Africa reached 39 without loss in their second innings.

Solozano slams unbeaten ton against Guyana

PINE BASIN, Barbados,  CMC – Opening batsman Jeremy Solozano slammed an unbeaten century to lead a Trinidad and Tobago assault on Guyana’s bowling on the first day of their Regional Under-19 three-day Champion third round match here  yesterday.

Aliann Pompey

Pompey flames out!

From Orin Gordon in London Aliann Pompey was apologetic. “I got your message,” she told me as she came off the track in her last race for Guyana at an Olympic Games.

Narsingh Deonarine appeals successfully for Brendan  McCullum’s wicket on yesterday’s third day of the second Digicel test match between the West Indies and New Zealand at Sabina Park, Jamaica. Photo courtesy DigicelCricket.com/Brooks LaTouche

Deonarine 4-37 bowls Windies into winning position

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Marlon Samuels defied a dropped chance and the “distraction” of the women’s Olympic 100 metres final being shown in the ground to score a pivotal 52 that fortified West Indies’ bid for a series-clinching victory over New Zealand in the second Test here yesterday.

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce wins the women’s 100m final at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium yesterday. REUTERS/DAVID GRAY

Golden day for hosts; Jamaican Fraser wins 100

LONDON, (Reuters) – Three athletics golds crowned host nation Britain’s best Olympic day for over a century after the greatest swimmer of all time bowed out on a high by winning yesterday’s last pool race of the Games.

Marlon Samuels acknowledges his fourth Test century and his first in the Caribbean West on Day Two of the second Test between West Indies and New Zealand. Photo courtesy DigicelCricket.com/Brooks LaTouche

Marlon’s masterclass

With West Indian attention firmly set on London and our special stars at the Olympics on track and in pool, a breathtaking individual performance in the team discipline that first established the region’s sporting excellence passed on Friday at a hallowed Caribbean cricket venue without the acclaim it truly deserved.

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