LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Politicians and athletes should keep politics out of this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games to protect the event’s neutrality and its status as a peaceful meeting place, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said yesterday.
Former national youth player Keshram Seyhodan was named the Most Valuable Player for 2019 while Sudesh Persaud was deemed Cricketer of the Year at the McGill Super Stars Sports Club annual awards ceremony on Wednesday.
Santos U20 stormed into the quarterfinals of the Turbo Energy Drink Knockout Football Championship, dismantling Black Pearl by an 8-0 scoreline on Wednesday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
High on the agenda of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) this year are plans to send a junior boys team to the 2020 Pan Am games.
JEDDAH (Reuters) – Atletico Madrid pulled off a stunning turnaround to beat Barcelona 3-2 in an enthralling Spanish Super Cup tie in Saudi Arabia yesterday and book their place in the final of the revamped competition.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowlers Oshane Thomas and Obed McCoy have been added to the West Indies squad for the Ireland series to undergo “supervised fitness and technical work” with head coach Phil Simmons.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler has been fined 15% of his match fee and handed one demerit point after a foul-mouthed verbal volley aimed at South Africa batsman Vernon Philander during the second test at Newlands on Tuesday.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Captain Darren Bravo was one of three batsmen with half-centuries to extend his purple patch as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force flourished on the opening day of their first round match against Jamaica Scorpions here yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Olympic champion Mo Farah said yesterday he would have been “the first one out” had he known that his former coach Alberto Salazar faced a ban from athletics for doping violations.
SYDNEY 10 (Reuters) – Australia’s Shane Warne’s prized “baggy green” cap raised more than A$1 million on Friday for bushfire relief efforts across the states of Victoria and New South Wales after the former leg-spinner donated it for auction.
LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane will undergo surgery on his hamstring and is expected to be out of action until April, the Premier League club said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) formally asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) yesterday to rule on Russia’s four-year ban for doping, after the agency handed down the punishment for manipulating laboratory data.
May The Guyana Football Federation [GFF], in collaboration with Government of Guyana through the Department of Tourism and the Tourism Hospitality Association of Guyana [THAG], officially launched the FIFA Conference on Development at the Marriott Hotel, Kingston.
The West Indies management team might just be missing a trick by not giving young all-rounder Romario Shepherd a run against Ireland in the absence of the rested Jason Holder.
For the first time Guyana will host the Carifta junior chess championship from April 10-13 at the Ramada Princess Hotel, Providence East Bank Demerara.
Albion Permaul’s Trading and Distribution Sunday book their spot in the final of the Berbice Cricket Board/Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 final with a 276-run win over Achievers.
A Leeward Islands Hurricanes side, minus the burly Rahkeem Cornwall seem less destructive despite their reputation of being a spoke in the five-time defending Professional Cricket League (PCL) champions, Guyana Jaguars’ wheel.
Carmelo Anthony made a tiebreaking shot with 4.1 seconds remaining, and the visiting Portland Trail Blazers rallied to defeat the Toronto Raptors 101-99 on Tuesday night.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Ben Stokes dedicated his match-winning performance in the second test at Newlands to father Ged as he now seeks to help the tourists claim the series in South Africa.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – World number one Rafael Nadal won a battle of attrition against fellow left-hander Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan 7-6(4) 6-4 to seal Spain’s spot in the final eight of the inaugural ATP Cup in Perth yesterday.
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