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BEIJING, China,  CMC – Reigning World champion Danielle Williams of Jamaica and compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown and Danielle Williams both stormed to victories at the IAAF World Challenge Meet here Wednesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – So rapid has been American teenager Taylor Fritz’s rise up the ATP rankings that setting targets has become futile exercise.

(Reuters) – Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt said the finding of 31 positive doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics marked a rough point for athletics, but backed the World Anti-Doping Agency in its effort to crackdown on drug use in the sport.

(Reuters) – Stephen Curry shrugged off a hard fall during Golden State’s Western Conference finals Game Two encounter against Oklahoma City on Wednesday and proceeded to dismantle the Thunder with another trademark scoring burst.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Challengers to Serena Williams’ throne have proved as fickle as a Paris spring and as the year’s second grand slam starts the veteran American is again seemingly in a league of her own.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The concept of day-night test found a new taker in England with board chairman Colin Graves confirming the country will host a twilight test.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippine boxing star Manny Pacquiao, WBO world welterweight champion, scored a big political victory yesterday when the elections commission declared he was among 12 new members of the upper house of Congress.

The Guyana Men’s u-19 Hockey Team suffered their first loss in preparation for the Junior Pan American Championships in Canada, going down 3-2 to an Ontario u-23 select unit on Wednesday in a practice match in Toronto.

Larissa Wiltshire, Taylor Fernandes and Alex Melville secured opening day wins when the  Guyana Squash Association (GSA)-sanctioned Woodpecker Products Ltd Junior National Squash Championships commenced on Wednesday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Under-19 World Cup stars Shimron Hetmyer and Alzarri Joseph have been included in a 13-man WICB President’s XI squad to face South Africa in day/night one-day game at Queen’s Park Oval later this month.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s 19-month exile from West Indies’ one-day side ended yesterday when he was named in a 14-man squad for next month’s Tri-Nations Series, but there was no room for Twenty20 World Cup heroes Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy as the West Indies Cricket Board held fast to its contentious eligibility rule.

(Reuters) – England captain Alastair Cook said it took him three years to feel comfortable with the responsibility of the job as he prepares to lead his team into a three-test series against Sri Lanka.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Australia’s George Bailey felt like he was “hit on the face with a truck” when a Nathan Coulter-Nile bouncer knocked his helmet off in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – West Indies Twenty20 star Kieron Pollard will be heading back to Adelaide Strikers for the Big Bash League next December, and the south Australian franchise is anxiously awaiting his arrival.

Khemraj Pooranmanll confirmed his status as the country’s top draughts player by winning the Open and the 100-squares competition last weekend at the National Gymnasium, a press release from the Guyana Draughts Association stated.

(The Sports Xchange) – As 3-pointers fell at historic rates through the first two rounds of the postseason, LeBron James’ message never changed: The Cleveland Cavaliers are not just a team of jump-shooters.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Change is unfolding at Shanghai’s No.1 Children’s Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has churned out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades.

West Indies Under-19 Captain Shimron Hetmyer said he wants to make the most of his opportunity after his selection to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s XI team to face the touring South Africa on May 29.

The DC Jammers Basketball Team of the United States of America will arrive on local shores today for their four-game exhibition tour.

With the inclement forcing constant rescheduling, the 22nd edition of the Mayor’s Cup Football Championship is now set to officially commence tomorrow at the Victoria Community ground.