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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) vice president Dr Kishore Shallow has given the organisation’s administration a passing grade for its first year in office, pointing to improvements in just about all areas of the 10-point plan which the Ricky Skerritt-led team had used as a platform for election.

BERN (Reuters) – European football clubs have been told by their umbrella organisation that they face an “existential threat” over the standstill caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

PARIS (Reuters) – It is too soon to decide whether the Tour de France can go ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic, but if it does it may be without roadside spectators in order to minimise infection risk, the French sports minister said.

PARIS (Reuters) – Michel Hidalgo, who coached current world champions France to their first major soccer title at the 1984 European Championship, has died at the age of 87.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Despite Trinidad and Tobago Red Force not winning the four-day West Indies Championship, coach Mervyn Dillon says he achieved what he set out to by finishing in the top three of the six-franchise team tournament.

TOKYO (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is working with sports bodies to arrange a July-August window for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and hopes to confirm the schedule within a month, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper reported yesterday.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Staying home during the national lockdown to contain the coronavirus is like “nirvana” for Australian cricketers as they generally have to live out of a suitcase, head coach Justin Langer has said.

(Reuters) – Clubs playing in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana have been offered an advance of up to 60% of their prize money so they can stay solvent during the coronavirus crisis, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said yesterday.

MADRID (Reuters) – Barcelona are taking measures to cut the wages of their players and staff to reduce the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis, the La Liga club said yesterday.

(Reuters) – South Korea’s football association yesterday called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to raise the age limit for the Tokyo Games in 2021 to ensure those players who helped their teams qualify are still eligible to compete.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Current contracts for players and coaches should be extended until the end of the delayed domestic soccer seasons, according to an internal FIFA document presented to its Coronavirus Working Group.

The Aliann Pompey Invitational (API) will be suspended pending the announcement of the new date for the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

However, this time of year, it is traditional that the National Sports Commission (NSV) reward outstanding persons in the sports fraternity with their award ceremony for their respective achievements.

Guyana was once the epicentre for producing quality off-spinners and even those who occasionally rolled their arms over had measured success at both the first-class and international level. 

With the shutdown of global football due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Golden Jaguars captain Samuel Cox affirmed that the focus of everyone should be on remaining healthy during this unfortunate situation.

Minster of Sport Olivia Grange says that athletes will be given their stipends for March as part of the Athletes Assistance Programme (AAP) despite the Tokyo Olympics being postponed until 2021.

LONDON, (Reuters) – This year’s Wimbledon Championships have so far survived the cull of the world’s most prestigious sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it seems only a matter of time before they are postponed or cancelled.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reschedule the 2020 edition of the games but expressed concern about the athletes who have already qualified.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Kraigg Brathwaite has pointed to Barbados’ Pride’s pace battery as the main reason for their success in the first-class championship this season.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 24, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave says the governing body had gone to great lengths not to also scrap the junior and senior and women domestic championship, in light of the coronavirus outbreak in the region.