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MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australian women’s basketballer Liz Cambage has protested at a lack of racial diversity in Olympic photo-shoots of the country’s athletes and suggested she might boycott the Tokyo Games if the situation did not change.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India have yet to win an Olympic medal in table tennis but the country’s leading paddler Sathiyan Gnanasekaran believes he can break that jinx in Tokyo this year.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s leading male cricketers across all three formats and the support staff have all been vaccinated against COVID-19, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Malaysia Open, scheduled for May 25-30, has been postponed due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in the Southeast Asian country, organisers said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board will explore all options to try to complete this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) but is yet to discuss offers from English counties to host the remaining matches, a senior official told Reuters yesterday.

Despite the surging local infection rate of the COVID-19 virus, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the local governing body, is scheduled to stage its Ordinary Congress on Saturday May 29.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and its players will now have full access to the Camptown ground in Campbellville.

Junior Hercules, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National 3×3 Coordinator, has confirmed that U23 Men’s team has been invited to participate in the Junior Pan American Championship, scheduled for Cali, Colombia from September 12-14.

(CMC) – Uncapped Kaysia Schultz is among three new West Indies Women players handed central retainer contracts, as Cricket West Indies yesterday increased the overall number to 18 for the coming year, with all 15 players retained from the previous year.

An infraction at the finish line on Wednesday proved costly to Briton John as breakaway mate, Christopher Griffith was awarded his first win of the season in a photo finish with the former.

(Reuters) – Spain’s Rafa Nadal was named the 2021 Laureus Sportsman of the year yesterday, while fellow tennis player Naomi Osaka won the top women’s honour.

(Reuters) – New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is on track to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics after meeting modified qualifying requirements for the Tokyo Games.

(Reuters) – The days of 140,000 fans cheering Fernando Alonso to a home victory in Spain are long gone but the double Formula One world champion returns this weekend firm in the belief he can drive better than ever.

(Reuters) – Villarreal held out for a 0-0 draw on a nerve-jangling night at Arsenal yesterday to reach the Europa League final 2-1 on aggregate as visiting manager Unai Emery returned to haunt the London club that sacked him in 2019.

(CMC) – Chief selector Roger Harper has admitted to being concerned about the future of Shimron Hetmyer, after the talented stroke-maker this week lost his Cricket West Indies central retainer contract.

(Reuters) – Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt’s induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame will be deferred by a year due to COVID-19 travel restrictions from Australia to the United States, the Hall of Fame said yesterday.

The Indiana Pacers suspended assistant coach Greg Foster for one game and fined center Goga Bitadze for their tense in-game argument during Wednesday’s 104-93 home loss to the Sacramento Kings.

(Reuters) – Manchester City will be crowned Premier League champions if they beat Chelsea tomorrow in a game which is now a dress rehearsal for the Champions League final.

(Reuters) – After staging a stunning revival to rein in leaders Atletico Madrid, Barcelona can finally go top of La Liga when they host Diego Simeone’s side on a mouthwatering weekend as the four teams in the title race come face to face.

(Reuters) – Trainer Bob Baffert, who won a record-setting seventh Kentucky Derby with Medina Spirit last week, said the dark bay colt had another light workout yesterday and is currently in peak form ahead of next week’s Preakness Stakes.