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The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) has named a 20-member team including three officials to participate in the upcoming 19th Goodwill Swimming Championships in Barbados this weekend.

Jamaican Dane Schwier defeated Jamal Callender in their men’s super plate fixture as action in the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships powered by POWERADE and SMALTA concluded at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts yesterday.

BK Western Tigers Football Club will hold its biannual general meeting on

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Move over Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stole your thunder.

The Guyana national U11 players are proving to be the success story of the eighth annual Pre-Cadet and Cadet table tennis championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Perennially cheerful American David Oliver finally had something to really smile about on Monday as a powerful run earned him the world 110 metres hurdles gold medal and the global title he so richly deserves.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Valerie Adams became the first woman to win four successive world titles when she secured shot put gold yesterday.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Frank Anthony Sunday night said that he was hoping that the new GFF dispensation would work together to develop the sport as the football fraternity for far too long had been divided.

Defending senior Caribbean Area Squash (CASA) champions Chris Binnie of Jamaica and Nicolette Fernandes of Guyana continued their smooth sailing as action in the men’s and women’s singles divisions of the Digicel, PowerAde and Smalta-sponsored tournament continued yesterday at the Georgetown Club courts.

CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, (Reuters) – Australia, with victory in sight, collapsed from 120 for one to 224 all out in a crazy post-tea spell as England won the fourth test by 74 runs to go 3-0 up in the five-match Ashes series yesterday.

Four of the six amateur boxers returned from Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday with trophies  following victories at last weekend’s Youth Invitational tournament at the Cosmic Gym in Marabella.

MOSCOW, Russia, CMC – Another Caribbean athlete has tested positive for a banned substance and will not participate in the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics underway here in Moscow.

Anand Ramchand notched his first win of the 2013 season when he drove his Mitsubishi Evolution to an E Class victory at Sunday’s drag race event at the South Dakota Circuit.

The development of motor sport and road safety, were the topics high on the agenda when the president of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Jean Todt concluded his pit stop visit to Guyana on Friday.

After a one-year absence from the ring, Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and local super middleweight champion, Lennox ‘2 Sharpe’ Allen will make his return under new management tomorrow night.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An impressive all-round performance from captain Dwayne Bravo steered the Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel to a thrilling one-run victory over the Antigua Hawksbills in their rain-affected CPL T20 match on Sunday night at Queens Park Oval.

Martin GuptilPORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad  CMC – Mohammad Hafeez and Steven Jacobs ripped through the middle order of the Barbados Tridents to help the Guyana Amazon Warriors register a crucial 27 run win over the front runners after match 13 of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League at the Queen’s park oval here yesterday.

Score’s Even looked like just another horse at the third annual Digicel Horse Race Classic yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Usain Bolt was made to look human by a combination of a Russian rainstorm and a fired-up Justin Gatlin  yesterday but the Jamaican superstar was still good enough to regain his world 100m title in a surging 9.77 seconds.

Former Caribbean Junior Champion Guyanese Ryan Farnum defeated OECS player Jules Snagg seeded 9/16 three games to one winning  7-11,11-9,14-12,11-4, to score the first upset of the Digicel 2013 Senior Caribbean Squash Championships powered by Powerade and Smalta which commenced yesterday at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts with the individual singles competition.