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Guyana’s Gairy `Superman’ St Clair lost a unanimous decision to Lovemore `Black Panther’ Ndou Friday night in Queensland, Australia for the vacant World Boxing Foundation (WBF) welterweight title.

(Reuters) – Usain Bolt could repackage himself as a big-hitting cricketer in Australia’s Big Bash League after defending his sprint double at the London Olympics, local media reported yesterday.

Guyana’s top junior lawn tennis player Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round of the First Citizens Investment Services sponsored 2012 International Junior Tennis Tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines and is into the main draw of the competition.

LONDON,  CMC – Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell-Brown says she is eyeing a fifth consecutive Olympic Games despite her disappointing outing at the 30th Olympiad in London.

Despite the fact that the Hits and Jams Spartans team possess a quartet of the most explosive Twenty20 players in the world cricket, its captain Tyrell Tull is downplaying his team’s chances of winning this weekend’s  Jamzone Masters Cup competition which commences Friday at the Providence National Stadium.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic women’s shot put champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC – Opener Sunil Ambris smashed a stunning half-century as West Indies Under-19s crushed Papua New Guinea Under-19s by nine wickets here yesterday to put one foot in the quarter-finals of the ICC Youth World Cup.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, (Reuters) – The superlatives are once again being heaped upon Rory McIlroy after the Northern Irishman, for the second time in 15 months, blew away the world’s best to win his second major crown.

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was previously postponed will now be held this Saturday at the Guyana Olympic Association building.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – South Africa team manager Dr Mohammed Moosajee has issued an official statement in response to the continuing fallout from the Kevin Pietersen text-messaging affair.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities are frustrated that foreign athletes who train in the country turned the tables on the east African nation, whose disappointing track and field performance at the London Olympics has kicked off a storm of protest back home.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – London bade farewell to the Olympic Games  yesterday with a high-octane romp through British pop music, bringing the curtain down on more than two weeks of action at the end of which the United States topped the sporting world with 46 gold medals.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago were undone by Shai Hope’s third century of the tournament as Barbados snatched first innings points on the final day of their top-of-the-table fourth round clash in the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Bud Winter, the American sprint coach who mentored a generation of world record-holders including Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held a series of seminars in Jamaica in 1966.

(Reuters) – Controversial batsman Kevin Pietersen said he was “gutted” after being dropped yesterday from the England squad for the third and final test against South Africa amid speculation of dressing room tensions with his team mates.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Guyana’s spinners triggered a late order Windward Islands batting collapse to force a 53-run victory on the final day of their fourth round match in the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship here yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Gail Seetahal helped Trinidad & Tobago clinch a nailbiting, one-wicket victory, ending Jamaica’s unbeaten streak in the Regional Women’s Twenty20 Tournament  yesterday here.

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC – West Indies Under-19s twice recovered from critical setbacks to complete a nervy run chase and beat two-time former champions India Under-19s by four wickets in their opening match of the Youth World Cup here  yesterday.

Chatterpaul Deo was triumphant in the Tony’s Auto Sales Medal Play golf tournament under tough conditions at the Lusignan Golf Course Saturday.

Twenty20 superstar Chris Gayle will definitely play in this weekend’s Jamzone T20 four team playoffs at the Providence National Stadium the organizers have announced.