Emmerson Campbell

Daredevils from Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados will push their start buttons today as their high velocity machines line up for the final leg of the 2013 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota Circuit.

District Four’s Jason Yaw, smashed the boys’ under-18 400m record en route to recording a sprint treble but the category’s champion boy’s historic performances was not enough to prevent North Georgetown (District 11) from lifting the coveted Champion-of-Champions trophy.

-Abbensetts, Caesar, Sampson, Griffith also blaze to wins One of the fastest men in Schools Track and Field history, Kevin Abbensetts claimed his second gold medal of this year’s 53rd Championships yesterday with an emphatic victory in the Boys 200m under-20 final.

The hot, humid conditions at the Providence National Stadium was ideal for breaking records and the high school stars of Track and Field did not disappoint.

Let the games begin. Following the exhortation of the athletes to aim for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil from President of the Guyana Teacher’s Union, Colin Bynoe, the 53rd Guyana Teacher’s Union/Ministry of Education (MOE) National School’s Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships was officially declared open by acting president, Samuel Hinds at the Providence National Stadium.

Minister of Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony has pledged his ministry’s support for the continuity of the ‘Ride For Life’ five-stage cycle road race.

Team United’s Orville Hinds brought the curtain down of the ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage road race with a victory but Team Coco’s Raynauth Jeffrey took the overall spoils of the seventh annual event which concluded yesterday on Homestretch Avenue.

Vijai Rahim continues his record breaking tear and is showing no signs of slowing down.

Raynauth Jeffrey did it again yesterday. The Team Coco’s standout followed up Thursday’s first stage win by out pedaling 35 rival wheelsmen in yesterday’s penultimate stage in Essequibo to cement his place as race leader heading into today’s fifth and final stage.

Robin Persaud prevailed over 37 other skilled wheelsmen to win yesterday’s third stage edging Team Coco’s Darren Matthews in a thrilling two-man sprint finish.

After covering 106 miles and outpedalling their rivals in the first two stages, Team Coco is destined to again ride away with the spoils of the annual ‘Ride For Life’ five-stage event.

“Let us be disciplined, ride well and break some records”. Some of the words mentioned by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr.

Mohamed’s Enterprise yesterday continued its 20-plus year tradition of supporting the Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) year- end football tournament.

Boxing superstars are not born into the role; they earn that title by paying their dues usually in the amateur ranks then onwards and upwards to the pay-per view arenas that holds the sport’s true riches.

Last year’s most successful cyclist Robin Persaud returned to his triumphant ways yesterday at the National Park by blowing away 24 rival wheelsmen in the feature 35-lap event of the inaugural C.

Minister of Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony saiud yesterday that he was pleased with the pace that the rubberized surface is being laid on the synthetic track at Leonora.

In windy conditions at the Seawall Bandstand yesterday, national rider, Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams returned to his triumphant ways by blowing away a star studded field to emphatically win the feature category 1-4, 30-lap event of the 16th annual Troy Humphrey Memorial event.

This year’s 24th annual Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Football Tournament will see 24 of the nation’s secondary school teams vying for top honours instead of the traditional senior ball clubs.

With the backing of the government and other stakeholders, Guyana’s football could one day be a permanent fixture on the world stage.

In sweltering conditions yesterday, Team Coco’s, Raynauth Jeffrey scorched a star studded field of rival wheelsmen to emphatically win the second annual Digicel Breast Cancer Awareness road race.