Sports

LONDON, CMC – Olympic legend Carl Lewis has cast doubt on sprint sensation Usain Bolt repeating as 100 metres champion at the London Olympics starting later this month.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday defeated the USA-based Friends and Former Guyana Cricketers (FFGC) team in a memorial match for the late DCC player Andrew Lyght.

Trophy Stall has joined the list of supporters of the Inter-Market/Municipality Futsal tournament which commences later this month at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan stroked a fantastic even hundred to propel Leicestershire to a dramatic four-wicket win over Worcestershire in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Championship here  yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell This year’s sixth Annual ‘Ride for Life’ 226-mile five-stage cycle road race which is set to  pedal off in the first week of October is gearing up to be better than last year’s event, according to Director of Sport Neil Kumar and National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed.

Junior player Khalif Gobin will next come up against the defending men’s singles champion Anthony Downes after he held his own against veteran player Harry Panday in a men’s singles match of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Open competition last Friday at the GBTI Recreational Centre, Bel Air.

LE CAP D’AGDE, France, (Reuters) – German Andre Greipel snatched his third Tour de France win this year when he outsprinted Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan to claim the 13th stage yesterday.

Caribbean Under-15 silver medallist Chelsea Edghill has failed to advance to the last 16 of the Latin America junior championship in Mexico after placing third in her group.

When the two teams met last year in the semi-finals of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition Wismar/Christianburg showed their superiority on the way to winning the match and advancing to the finals.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies have fallen to one from bottom of the pack in the International Cricket Council Test rankings.

LONDON, CMC – World champion Kirani James warmed up for his first-ever assault on an Olympic medal with a victory in the men’s 400 metres but Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce tasted defeat on the final day of the London Grand Prix here  yesterday.

NEW YORK, CMC – CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, has appointed Colombian Enrique Sanz as its new general secretary.

The ‘Closer’ has done it again. With an unprecedented silver medal run, Guyanese sprint phenom Kadecia Baird lived up to her uncanny nickname and shut the  curtains on her country’s foray  at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships with aplomb.

It might not be gold but overseas-based sprinter’s Kadecia Baird silver medal run at the World Junior Championships yesterday in Barcelona, Spain was the next best thing.

After weeks of competition from 154 teams, Waramadong Secondary, Region Seven Champions and Wismar-Christianburg are through to the final of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – For the second time in four days, West Indies will try to steady their nerves as they chase a series-clinching lead in the fourth game of the five-match One-Day International series against New Zealand here today.

Andre Lopes was among the winners on Thusrday’s opening night of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Open lawn tennis tournament Thursday evening at the GBTI Recreational Centre Bel Air.

The year was 1984, the ground –  Albion Sports Complex and the Guyana opening batting pair ended up pulverizing the Leeward Islands bowling attack for a mammoth 202-run first innings partnership.

By Iva Wharton Guyana’s netball team left yesterday for Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the Americas Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) tournament with Coach Lavern Fraser–Thomas stating that she was not satisfied with their preparation.

Jumbo Jets Auto Sales sixth annual Guyana Horse Race Meet is set for August 26th at the Port Mourant Race track, Corentyne, Berbice and over 30 horses are set to compete for the first prize of $3 million.