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It was a day of changing fortunes  until Barbados gained the edge on the first day over the Windward Islands in the WICB three-day tournament

The Guyana cricketers who finished third in the regional under-15 tournament in Trinidad, which concluded last Friday,  performed satisfactorily, according to squad manager Elroy Stephney.

PADOVA, Italy, CMC – Nesta Carter grabbed a reassuring victory on Sunday at the Atletica Mondiale meet, leading a tiny group of Jamaican competitors that continued to fine tune for this year’s World Championships.

MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, CMC – A final day that featured victories for sprint hurdlers Vonette Dixon and Eric Keddo, as well as distance runner Korene Hinds, and the women’s mile relay squad propelled Jamaica to the top of the medal standings at the end of the Central American & Caribbean Senior Championships on Sunday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The battle to keep drugs out of  the London Olympics has started long before the opening ceremony  next July.

Reuters) – Factbox on some of the main substances  and methods used for doping in sport:     ERYTHROPOIETIN (EPO)   * EPO is a peptide hormone that is produced naturally by the  human body.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters – Apart from motorcycles,  Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s obsession is firearms and the India  captain would be thoroughly justified in believing he has enough  ammunition to foil any bid to topple his team from the top of  the test rankings.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Andrew Strauss delivers a  spirited defence of his preference for a four-man attack in his  latest book, asserting that research shows England win more  matches with an extra batsman than they do with a fifth bowler.

(Reuters) – England-India factbox before the first  of a four-test series starting at Lord’s in London on Thursday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Brazil will be strong when  they stage the World Cup in 2014, coach Mano Menezes said today after his team’s shock Copa America quarter-final  elimination.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Named after a frilly pink flower,  Japan’s World Cup-winning women’s soccer team embodied the  iron-willed spirit of a nation united in its battle to recover  from disaster.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The legal team for cycling  superstar Lance Armstrong, who is under federal investigation  for doping, has asked a U.S.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Stuart Law needs to form a stable  relationship with the senior figures in Bangladesh cricket in  order to push the team up the world rankings, the new coach said  yesterday.

By Colin Benjamin A tournament whose journey began on the 15th of July, with more than 100 teams across the 10 regions of Guyana concluded last night with the Government Technical Institute triumphing in the inaugural Digicel Schools football championships.

After months of preparation and weeks of intense training, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation yesterday named a squad of 12 players to represent Guyana at the 21st CBC Championships which will bounce off on July 23 – 29 in Nassau, The Bahamas.

LA PLATA, Argentina, (Reuters) – Paraguay, who did  not have a single shot on target in 120 minutes of a goalless  Copa America quarter-final, sent holders Brazil crashing out 2-0  on penalties yesterday.

SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Venezuela reached the  semi-finals of the Copa America for the first time yesterday by  beating Chile 2-1 in yet another quarter-final upset.

FRANKFURT,  (Reuters) – Japan won the women’s World  Cup for the first time after beating the United States 3-1 on  penalties following a 2-2 draw yesterday.

SANDWICH, England,  (Reuters) – Darren Clarke’s long  wait for a first major title ended when he fought off a pack of  Americans to claim a magnificent three-shot victory at a  windswept British Open yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan  were given the nod ahead of fellow paceman Steve Finn in  England’s 12-man squad for Thursday’s opening test of the  four-match series against India at Lord’s.