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The Guyana Cycling Federation is gearing up to send  their top riders as part of male and female teams to participate in competitions in Suriname and Jamaica in September.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies will do battle in Group B of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier 2011 as they compete among 10 teams for four spots at the 2013 Cricket World Cup.

The under-21 category spelt some success for Guyana as national player Nigel Bryan along with his female counterpart Trenace Lowe picked up a bronze and silver medal respectively when the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last Tuesday.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will host its  Inter-Guiana Games trials on August 28 at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary from 10:00hrs.

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United is threatening legal action against the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation after they failed to deliver on their promise of the $5M Plus One kit, eight months after the completion of the tournament.

Guyana’s Desiree Lancaster turned it up a notch to win the female veteran title while the Dominican Republic proved their superiority yet again when they claimed both the male and female double titles as the 53rd edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Young West Indies stroke-maker Darren Bravo failed but Nottinghamshire still did enough to beat Somerset by three wickets with a ball to spare in the Clydesdale Bank 40 Championship here yesterday.

Work has restarted at the site for the FIFA Goal Project at Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo, according to acting president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Franklin Wilson yesterday.

HAMBANTOTA, (Reuters) – A brilliant 13th one-day  international century from opener Upul Tharanga took Sri Lanka  to a 78-run win over Australia in the third one-day  international at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium yesterday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Arsenal’s hopes of qualifying for  the Champions League for the 14th time in a row were in the  balance after a 1-0 win at home to Udinese in the first leg of  the playoffs yesterday.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – An angry and frustrated Andy  Roddick lost his cool as he crashed out of the Cincinnati Open  in the first round on Monday, suffering a three-set loss to  47th-ranked German Philipp Kohlschreiber.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – World sprint champion Usain Bolt leads an array of stars in a Jamaica 50-member contingent named Monday for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea starting month end.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Guatemalan giant-killer Kevin  Cordon marched into the third round of the badminton world  championships yesterday with an impressive 21-19 21-17  victory over Sweden’s Henri Hurskainen.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Ethiopian  Olympic and world champion Kenenisa Bekele will defend his  10,000 metres world title later this month despite not having  raced since early 2010, his manager said yesterday.

Patrick Prashad continues to show top form as play intensified in the local golfing calendar leading up to the prestigious Guyana Open later this year.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Fifteen-year-old Barbadian Shaquana Quintyne has been named in a 14-member West Indies women’s squad to face Pakistan on the upcoming tour of the Caribbean.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) hosted a press conference yesterday to brief the media about Guyana’s participation in upcoming matches in the 2011 Women’s Under-17 CONCACAF  tournament that kicks off here today.

In Greek mythology the Titans, were a race of powerful Gods and in the famous Tintanomachy “War of the Gods,” The elder Gods were overthrown by a group of younger Gods known as Olympians.

Sport Minister Dr. Frank Anthony labelled the De Sinco Trading Limited hard court cricket facility a step in the right direction for cricket development when it was commissioned at the Gandhi Youth Organisation (GYO) ground, Woolford Avenue, last evening.

Trinidad and Tobago walked away with an easy mixed doubles title when the 2011 Caribbean Table Tennis Championships continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall (CASH).