Treiston Joseph

The 2012 London Olympics is over and the Guyana team is back home following a sub-par showing at the 30th edition of the prestigious games.

The Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) men’s basketball team will be somewhat upgraded for the 2012 edition in French Guiana as star guards Dominic Vincente and Nikkoloi Smith left last Thursday for a High Performance Training Camp in Suriname.

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.

Bags were packed and the time finally came  for the 2012 Guyanese contingent for the London Olympics to depart  Olympic House for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at 11:00hrs on Wednesday.

Defending champions Headquarters captured yet another championship when the annual Track and Field Police Championships concluded yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Headquarters (HQ) with a commanding lead of  213,  trailed by  their closest rivals ‘A’ Division on 130 points, is set to be the top athletics division as the police athletics championships wind down today with a keenly anticipated contest in the men’s 1500 metres.

A Kwakwani basketball team returned home last Sunday after a successful week-long development basketball tournament in Antigua.

Headquarters were seemingly on their way to yet another title after increasing their lead over their opponents at the annual Track and Field  Athletics Championships at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary yesterday.

Headquarters sped out of the blocks to take a commanding lead over the other divisions when the Annual Guyana Police Force track and field championships commenced yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

With about three months remaining to the biggest track and field rivalry in Guyana, the annual Joint Services Sports, the Guyana Police Force (HPF) will begin its selection process to find their top athletes today with the commencement of their annual track and field championships at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.

The Guyanese team is set to leave here on the 25th of July for the London 2012 Summer Olympics which is scheduled to begin on the 27th  July and end on 12th August.

Power, size and speed trumped skill and technique yesterday evening when Wismar/Christianburg Secondary, led by five goals from Marmalique Davidson, hammered Waramadong Secondary to a 5-2 defeat in the final of the Digicel Schools Football Championships at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

It might not be gold but overseas-based sprinter’s Kadecia Baird silver medal run at the World Junior Championships yesterday in Barcelona, Spain was the next best thing.

Marian Academy lost the wrong game to end their undefeated streak in the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) when they fell to the much superior Kwakwani team last Sunday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) 46-66.

Guyana’s lone qualifier for the Latin American junior table tennis championships Chelsea Edghill along with her coach Idi Lewis will depart Guyana today for Mexico where Edghill will participate in the July 10-15 championships.

Holding the fastest junior female 400 metres time ever recorded on American soil by a high school runner, overseas-based sprinter Kadecia Baird will don Guyana colors in an attempt to capture this country’s first World Junior medal.

Marian Academy held on for dear life to reach the final of the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) by defeating Plaisance Academy 59-56 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Saturday evening.

Plaisance Academy and Marian Academy continued their dominant play last Friday evening to reach the semi-finals of the National School Basketball Festival (NSBF) at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The National School’s Basketball Festival (NSBF) got off to an exciting start last Sunday evening as Queen’s College notched their first win over the Government Technical Institute (GTI) at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

So close but yet so far was the unfortunate result for the Guyana national basketball team which lost to the Washington DC Jammers in a nail-biting encounter at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) Saturday evening when the National Community Basketball League (NCBL) tipped off its first International All-Star Weekend.