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Anthony Downes retained his men’s singles title while Carol Humphrey was crowned women’s champ as the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) lawn tennis tournament ended Sunday at the GBTI Recreational Centre courts.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – China are guaranteed to win their seventh successive women’s table tennis gold medal after their top two players shrugged off the pressure of expectation back home to win their semi-finals, before warning the world this is the start of a new generation.

In a return friendly encounter between Guyana and Suriname, a Suriname junior draughts team is set to arrive  tomorrow while their senior team arrives Saturday for a Goodwill series against their local counterparts.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Michael Phelps won the right to call himself the greatest Olympian of all time when the U.S.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is promising to invest more in the Sagicor High Performance Centre (SHPC) after one of its first graduates performed impressively during the just ended first test match between West Indies and New Zealand in Antigua.

LONDON, CMC – Olympic silver medallist Kerron Stewart has been nowhere close to her best for the last two years but the determined Jamaican says she will not let that discourage her from going for gold when the track and field segment opens later this week.

PANAMA CITY, Panama, CMC-England and Liverpool legend, John Barnes, says the number of Caribbean footballers playing on the world stage is increasing.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Former Prime Minister Dr.Keith Mitchell is calling on the West Indies Cricket Board to introduce a multiple captain system for the various formats of the game.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Barbados wrapped up the Regional Under-15 title in anticlimactic circumstances after the final day of the Championship was washed out without a ball bowled here yesterday.

BASSETERRE,  St. Kitts,  CMC -No play was possible on the opening day of two of the three fifth round matches in the WICB under 15 competition in St.

Following judoka Raul Lall’s second round exit from the individual competition of the Summer Olympics as the 2012 London Olympic Games are called another Guyanese,

Guyana’s lone participant at the just-concluded North American Powerlifting Federation (NAPF) Regional Championships in the Cayman Islands, Anis Ade-Thomas, smashed his Commonwealth record whilst copping a silver and a bronze medal.

By Iva Wharton There seems to be some controversy surrounding the selection of Guyana’s female team to contest the Regional tournament which starts on August 5.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Women’s top seed Victoria Azarenka made hard work of her first-round win yesterday, while Roger Federer moved closer to a first singles medal after breezing into the last 16 on a packed Wimbledon Centre Court.

LONDON, (Reuters) – All eyes will be on the swimming pool later  today when Michael Phelps could make history by becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time and the first man to win the same event on three occasions.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – At just 15, schoolgirl Ruta Meilutyte showed nerves of steel as she withstood a delayed start that rattled experienced Olympians to claim Lithuania’s first ever swimming medal and become the one of the youngest women to win the Olympic title.

The Everest Cricket Club ground will come alive tonight with two feature softball encounters involving the country’s top male and female teams.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies Cricket Coach Ottis Gibson says an all-round team effort was responsible for his side’s nine-wicket win in the first Test against New Zealand at the Sir Vivian Richards playing Field in Antigua Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Top seed Zhang Jike came within a handful of points of turning the table tennis world on its axis but he held his nerve with the weight of a nation on his shoulders to move into the quarter-finals yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – An almost robotically focused United States women’s team proved revenge is a dish best served cold when they got their own back on 2008 champions Brazil with an emphatic Olympic volleyball pool victory yesterday.