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RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall will help cover the deficit of the local Olympic organizing committee if necessary, Mayor Eduardo Paes said in an interview yesterday, going back on assurances that the committee would be entirely privately funded.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Premier League West Bromwich Albion and Watford were knocked out in the League Cup second round by lower-league opponents yesterday as a strong Liverpool side crushed championship Burton Albion 5-0.

The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda will prove the setting of the Mayor’s Cup Football Championship when the quarterfinal rounds commence on Sunday with a tripleheader.

Guyana’s four-member badminton team of Narayan Ramdhani, Jonathan Mangra, Priyanna Ramdhani and Ambika Ramraj topped their group after playing unbeaten in yesterday’s round robin group fixtures of the Caribbean Badminton Championships in Aruba to set up a clash against Suriname in the knockout round.

(Reuters) – Pakistan have long been regarded as a talented yet inconsistent side, but through a combination of sheer hard work, application and a little help from some inclement Caribbean weather, the South Asian side sit atop the test rankings for a first time.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Head coach of Jamaica’s national football team, Winfried Schaefer, says the Reggae Boyz are aiming to surprise their critics when their bid to qualify for the next FIFA World Cup enters a critical stage next week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England could play three spinners in the first game of their five-match series against Pakistan in Southampton on Wednesday, said one-day captain Eoin Morgan.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – The first test between South Africa and New Zealand ended in a damp draw yesterday without a ball bowled over the final three-and-a-half days due to a sodden outfield at Kingsmead.

Guyana’s national Pre cadet team began their quest for regional honours at the 2106 Caribbean Pre-Cadet table tennis championships yesterday at the National Arena, Kingston, Jamaica.

Guyana’s three-member team of Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani and Jonathan Mangra ended with four silver medals and two bronze medals after four days battling players from the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba and Suriname at the Caribbean Badminton International Open Under-19 championships(CAREBACO) which ended Sunday at the Centro Deportivo Sports Hall, Aruba.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – Triathlete Flora Duffy shrugged off the disappointment of failing to end Bermuda’s 40-year wait for a second Olympic medal and vowed to try again in Japan in four years’ time when she will be 32.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, has hailed Kershorn Walcott’s bronze medal in the men’s javelin at the Rio Olympics and said he believes the country will have a bigger impact at the next Olympiad in Tokyo.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – As the Olympic hoardings are taken down in Rio de Janeiro and the Carnival atmosphere subsides, there is relief that cash-strapped Brazil avoided making a mess of the Games but also a nagging suspicion it did not make the most of them either.

Colts secured the Open division title while Ravens claimed the U23 accolade when the round two of the Turbo Hard-Court Basketball Championships concluded at the Plaisance Community Court Sunday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Until now, people in Brazil had something to look forward to.

(Reuters) – U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte lost the last of his four major sponsors, Japanese mattress maker Airweave, days after he admitted to exaggerating his story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio during the Olympics.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – There were more questions than answers left hanging after the fourth and final Test between West Indies and India finished in a farcical draw here on the final day yesterday.

(Reuters) – The final test between West Indies and India was abandoned as a draw yesterday as the soggy outfield remained unplayable in Trinidad.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – A wet outfield again prevented play on the fourth day of the first test between South Africa and New Zealand in what is becoming an increasing embarrassment for the hosts.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies Women’s Team captain Stafanie Taylor struck a cameo but her efforts were in vain as Western Storm went down by seven wickets to Southern Vipers in the final of the Women’s Super League here Sunday.