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Team Guyana ended day one of the Goodwill Games Swimming Championships, currently underway in Suriname, with a gold medal and three silver medals yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Briton Andy Murray cleared a  major hurdle in his Toronto Masters title defence brushing aside world number one Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-4 yesterday to storm into the final.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard has been sent to hospital for scans after being struck in the face while playing for Somerset in the Friends Provident Twenty20 final against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl yesterday.

KOHLER, Wisconsin, (Reuters) – American Nick Watney  broke free of the chasing pack to open up a three-stroke lead  after the third round of the U.S.

Former three-time national men’s singles table tennis champion Colin France will be in the thick of things when the Guyana Darts Association in partnership with Granny’s Hangout Bar of Better Hope stages an Open tournament.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – The inaugural Youth Olympic Games officially opened in Singapore yesterday with a ceremony  on the world’s largest floating stage and an extravagant firework display.

By Sham Samaroo Everything seems to be coming up roses for United States of America’s Lennox Cush in 2010.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is investigating the  shooting of a Hong Kong player during a game at the women’s  Baseball World Cup and will issue a revised schedule yesterday for the 11 international teams taking part.

The third annual Berbice Football Association (BFA) organised Cheddi and Janet Jagan Memorial knockout football tournament gets underway today with a double header at the Number Five Village Playfield (Zeelust) at 2pm.

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, (Reuters) – Power forward Karl Malone and small forward Scottie Pippen were among 10 inductees into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.

The final of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super Eight knockout competition will wrap up tonight with the final and third place showdown set to be contested at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground from 6pm.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Allyson Felix, dripping with world championship gold but  twice a runner-up in the Olympics, looks set to double her options at the 2012 Games after completing a the 400m/200m Diamond League double yesterday.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Former world number one Andy  Roddick said a virus was to blame for his recent fitness  problems but expects to be back in good shape for the U.S.

WORCESTER, England, (Reuters) – Zulqarnain Haider,  one of Pakistan’s few successes in the test defeat to England  last week, has a chipped finger and will see a specialist on Tuesday to see if he can play again in the series.

– Mayor Green tells ISKF founder and chief instructor By Marlon Munroe Founder and chief instructor of the International Shotakan Karate Federation (ISKF) Teruyuki Okazaki yesterday received the ‘key to the city’ of Georgetown  in the Promenade Gardens.

By Tamica Garnett Jevina Sampson who was nominated for the Singapore Youth Olympic Scholarship has been accepted for the prestigious scholarship offered by the Organizing Committee of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) scheduled to begin today in Singapore.

By Tamica Garnett President of the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA), Christopher Ram yesterday delivered words of inspiration to the remaining six tennis players prior to their departure for St Vincent and the Grenadines where they are scheduled to participate in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior Championships.

By Tamica Garnett National cyclists Christopher Holder and Marica Dick with a bronze medal apiece, ensured the Guyana contingent did not come back empty handed from the Fifth Annual Youth Caribbean Cycling Championships held in Aruba on August 7-8.

Following his second place finish in the just-concluded Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) trials on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, young racquet wielder Edinho Lewis has been named on the men’s team for this year’s Commonwealth Games in India.

Guyana recorded their second win of the men’s indoor Pan American hockey championships in Venezuela when they defeated Peru 4-2 in a thrilling encounter in the first game of day four of the championships in Barquisimeto.