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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).

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel  appealed to kidnappers on Monday for the safe return of his  father after he was abducted in Nigeria last week.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Warwickshire  County Cricket Club, which hosted the England-India test that  ended on Saturday with the home side crowned the world’s best,  has incurred a 29 million pound debt to retain its international  status but has no regrets about the “risk”.

The annual one-week Summer Youth Camp organized by the Georgetown Football Club ggot underway yesterday at the club’s venue, North Road Bourda.

Champtress won her second of three feature events on Sunday when the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTC), Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne held its annual post-Emancipation horse race meet.

Guyana’s Nicola Ramdyhan breezed through the qualifying round to come out on top of the girls 14 round robin qualifiers, while teammates Aretta Dey and Daniel Lopes also made it into the main draw of the First Citizens Investment Services 2011 International Junior Tennis Tournament currently ongoing in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The boys from the Land of Flying Fish made it five wins out of five  en route to dethroning 2010 winners Trinidad and Tobago as the regional limited overs champions with a commanding nine-wicket win at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground, yesterday.

Guyana’s Under-19 cricket team ended its chequered campaign of the WICB limited overs tournament with a draw against the Windward Islands at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground, Bourda.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaica made light work of the Leewards Islands to end their WICB Regional Under-19 One-Day campaign on a high yesterday.

Team Guyana ended in fourth position after collecting 15 medals when the Goodwill Swim Meet came to a close yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Dominican Republic held off Trinidad and Tobago in the male team competition to become the 2011 Caribbean Table Tennis Champions at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last night.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Stafanie Taylor, as expected, played a pivotal role  and Jamaica became the new WICB Regional Women’s One-day champions yesterday when they completed a 30-run victory over two-time defending champions Trinidad & Tobago.