Category: Sports

Karate history was made on Sunday, May 2, when the Guyana Karate College participated in the biggest-ever Dan level examinations held under the watchful eyes of Master Frank Woon-a-Tai; and, for the first time under the auspices of the International Karate Daigaku (IKD), the newest worldwide karate organisation based out of Toronto, Ontario, dedicated to the teachings of Masters Funakoshi and Nakayama, where all aspects of karate are being studied and analysed. These include philosophy, physical education and fitness, self defence and sport. Leading the Dan rankings for the GKC…

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National long distance champion Alika Morgan and former national champion Lionel D’Andrade completed emphatic victories in record time in their debut in Suriname’s TELESUR 10km road race, last Sunday, May 1. D’Andrade was the first of close to 200 starters to complete the course, and he established a new course record of 33 minutes, 50 seconds (33:50s). Morgan, who won the women’s category, finished 20th overall with a new female record of 41:01s. Placing second overall was Surinamese teen Syveryo Simison, who clocked 34:02 to win the junior category; while…

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Chennai Super Kings continued their dominance at home and eased to a fourth successive win in conditions where power play took a backseat to opportunistic strokemaking, and stamina and steady consolidation was in greater supply than short outbursts of runs. The sweltering Chennai heat and a slow pitch made for a tiring ordeal for batsmen, and it seemed at one stage that Rajasthan Royals, at the back of Rahul Dravid’s fluent half-century, would have the better of the contest. But an inspired recovery from Chennai’s faltering bowlers and a controlled…

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South Basketball Guyana (YBG) successfully held its first-ever Girls Basketball Development Jamboree last weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall; and YBG President Chris Bowman was pleasantly surprised by the level of talent that was on show. Bowman told Guyana Times International Sport that the exercise created a unique opportunity for his organisation to assess the level of talent and interest of girls in basketball at the school level. Prior to last weekend, Bowman said, the only conclusions that could have been made would have been assumptions, since there had…

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– Jessica Stephenson bags second and third gold medals at CARIFTA this year The first time she competed at CARIFTA, she captured just one gold medal in the 200m breaststroke. In her second year she doubled up, winning both the 100m and 200m breaststroke events. This year, she made her intentions clear from the start. She was aiming for a sweep of the breaststroke events and although it was her first year in the age group, she delivered. Jessica Stephenson wrapped up an emphatic clean sweep of the sprint breaststroke…

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– Pompey passes up IAAF Rio Grand Prix to run in Guyana at the President’s/Jefford Classic Guyana’s track and field ambassador Aliann Pompey passed up competing at the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Rio Grand Prix in Brazil to run in Guyana at the President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic next month. The 33-year-old national 400m record holder said that it was her intention to run at the inaugural edition of the competition last year, but her competition schedule was conflicting. This time around, however, Pompey told Guyana Times International…

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Cool and composed in the face of the most brutal bowling attacks, cricket’s master blaster Sachin Tendulkar broke down and wept like a child on Monday, April 25th, while paying homage to Sai Baba at the Sai Kulwant Hall. Sachin flew in on a chartered flight along with wife Anjali for a last glimpse of the godman, and sat for half an hour close to the glass coffin in which the body was kept. The batsman, who cancelled his birthday celebrations on Sunday and confined himself to the hotel room…

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– the discarded left-hander is being blamed for slow batting, yet Bravo and Samuels seem like mere pedestrians against Pakistan’s spin   So Chris Gayle is having a ball in the Indian Premier League, Shivnarine Chanderpaul is working tirelessly to further enhance his skills at the Unity ground every afternoon, and Ramnaresh Sarwan is using the time off to crash a few parties here and there. And while the omission of the senior trio for the lone T20 and first two ODIs for the West Indies home series against Pakistan has…

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If you needed a punctuation mark to describe this game, you would reach out for a big bold exclamation mark and colour it a deep crimson red. The Kochi Tuskers Kerala scorecard was stunningly woeful at the end of four sensational overs: 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, were the scores of the batsmen who were sucker-punched by Ishant Sharma, he harassed them with seam and bounce. Kochi never recovered from his soul-crushing spell, his length was nearly always full. Ishant entered the scene after Dale Steyn took out Brendon…

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Chris Gayle says he had written off IPL 2011 and was getting ready to resume international duties before being dropped from the West Indies team for the series against Pakistan. Gayle spoke to ESPN cricinfo on the eve of his second IPL game for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Delhi Daredevils on Tuesday. “It was to be international cricket for me. Had I been picked, that would have been what I would have done,” Gayle said. “I didn’t have any thoughts about IPL4; I had written off IPL4. Rather, I was…

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