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KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt headlines Jamaica’s squad for the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month.

COUVA, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados made light work of South Windwards as they strolled to their second win of the Regional Women’s Super50 at the National Cricket Centre here yesterday.

CALIFORNIA, Trinidad, CMC – Title-holders Jamaica crushed North Windwards to post their first win while hosts Trinidad and Tobago carved out a steady victory over Guyana, in the third round of the Regional Women’s Super50 here yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The coach of Brazil’s national swimming team says China’s Olympic champion Sun Yang tried to elbow and kick a female swimmer at the world championships on Sunday and that he has also caused problems for other teams.

Despite persistent showers at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday, the GMR&SC’s Race of Champions Meet saw some scorching performances.

Ravens and Colts will compete in the Open Divisional finale of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Qualifying Knockout Tournament, defeating Plaisance Guardians and Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters respectively in their semi-final matchups on Saturday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s Joe Root has moved to the top of the world test batting rankings after scoring two centuries and two fifties in the first four Ashes tests against Australia.

KAZAN, Russia, (Reuters) – China’s Sun Yang was a shock late withdrawal from the final of the men’s 1,500 metres freestyle at the world championships yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Retiring Australia captain Michael Clarke has rubbished local media reports that internal divisions within the squad were responsible for the Ashes debacle.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) wants to create a commercial entity to increase the board’s revenue intake.

PHILLIPSBURG, St Maarten, CMC – The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Inaugural Under-15 Football Tournament opened with the Dominican Republic defeating Grenada 3-0 at the Raoul Illidge Sports Complex on Saturday.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago have won the clash of the Caribbean on Day three with the world number 10 side overcoming the ninth ranked Barbados at Allphones Arena in Sydney yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket board has promised a review of the Ashes debacle after the dead rubber test at The Oval and will seek answers to the team’s continued flops on foreign pitches.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Thirty-two medal winners at the world’s six top city marathons were among the hundreds of long distance runners with suspicious blood test results revealed in a leak, a newspaper reported yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – George Worker compiled a brisk 62 off just 38 balls on his international debut to enable New Zealand to complete their brief limited overs tour of Zimbabwe with an easy 80-run win in their only Twenty20 international yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England paceman James Anderson has been named in the 14-man squad for the final Ashes test against Australia at the Oval, the England and Wales Cricket Board said yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s cricket board has promised a review of the Ashes debacle after the dead rubber test at The Oval and will seek answers to the team’s continued flops on foreign pitches.

Ten of Guyana’s top bodybuilders including three-time Mr Guyana Kerwin Clarke, Mr Guyana Men’s Physique Champion Emmerson Campbell, former Mr Guyana Devon Davis and Alisha Fortune

Alonzo Ambrose’s sprinting prowess was on full display yesterday at the National Park as he sped past his rivals to take the Seven Seas cycling winner’s trophy.

By Tony Cozier   The astonishing fluctuations in the on-going Ashes series have defied even the most qualified observers to explain the inexplicable.