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GUYANA CHRONICLE Monday November 30, 2015
GKC completes successful grading THE Guyana Karate College (GKC) yesterday successfully completed another grading ceremony for its Karatekas at the Carifesta Sport s Complex on Carifesta Avenue. Forty-four students underwent grading exercises under the watchful eye of International Karate Diagaku’s founder and current leader Sensei Frank Woon-
A-Tai. Moving from to Nidan (second Kyu black belt) were Britteny Bettencourt and Aaliyah Seeram while the Shodan (first kyu Black belt) movers were Motilall Mattadin, William Jean Paul Grant and Jonathan Ramlal. Meanwhile, Aditya Seeram moved from second kyu brown belt to first kyu brown belt while
Alyssa Ramotar, Jonathan Robinson and Jessica Callender all moved from third kyu to first kyu. Bruce young, Kellisha Jupiter and Aaron Hendricks each moved from third kyu (brown belt) to second kyu. Danielle Denny, Josiah Dyall and Rudy Austin each moved from Purple belt to first Kyu brown belt while Ray Samaroo
Sensei Frank Woon-A-Tai (fourth from left in the back row,) stands with GKC Vice President and senior Instructor Sensei Jeffrey Wong (third from left in the back row) as well and his graduates of the recent IKD Grading.
jumped one belt from Blue to brown; skipping purple. Persons who moved from blue to purple belts included Zaine Bispay, Daniel Denny, Jonathan Ng-a-Fook and Taissa and Diego DeNobrega while those who moved from Green belt to blue belt were Joshua Dyall, Jayden Jettoo and Nathaniel Archer. Those orange belt karatetas who skipped the green belt and went straight to blue were Nadia Ramlal, Nalini Rampersaud and Paula Louis Grant while Tristian Richards went from yellow belt to orange belt. Moving from white belt to yellow and white were Jonathan Mohan, Laurence Baptiste, Shamar Duguid, Joshua Gibbs, Lemuel Wilson, Micaiah De Peazer, Jerome Blyde, Justin Peters, Randy Austin, Nicholas Parasaram, Omar Shariff, Jared Bird, Jadon Lee, Aaron Joshua and Angelina Champayne. (Stephan Sookram)
Windies spinner Sunil Narine suspended for illegal action (REUTERS)-The West Indian spinner Sunil Narine, the world’s top-ranked bowler in both forms of limited-overs cricket, has been suspended from bowling in internationals after his action was ruled to be illegal. The International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement yesterday that an independent assessment found his bowling action was illegal
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because his elbow extended beyond the maximum limit of 15 degrees. The ICC said the suspension would take place with immediate effect but Narine could reapply for a re-assessment after modifying his action. The 27-year-old Narine is currently rated as the number one bowler in the ICC’s rankings for 50-over
One-Day Internationals and Twenty20s. His action was reported to the ICC earlier this month during the ODI series against Sri Lanka, a series marking his return to international cricket after more than a year when he was first reported during the 2014 Champions League Twenty20 tournament.
Hamburg drops 2024 Games bid after referendum defeat By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN, (Reuters)-The citizens of Hamburg yesterday rejected a bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics with more than half voting against the project, killing off the candidacy and leaving bid officials in shock. “We expected a different result,” bid CEO Nikolas Hill said. “The result nevertheless is clear for us, we have to accept it. There will be no discussion or rethinking it. That is it. That is what they wanted.” Close to 52 percent of the 650,000 votes cast went against the 7.4 billion euro (£5.2 billion) project that was bidding along with Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, and Budapest to host the world’s biggest multi-sports event. Hill said a string of unrelated events, including the Paris attacks earlier this month and global sports scandals in football and athletics, affected voters. “The attacks in Paris, the (German World Cup 2006) affair, the refugee situation, the doping scandals. They did not have anything to do with this but it has been irritating and disturbing people,” Hill told a conference call. Germany must accept a second referendum defeat in two years after Munich’s plans for the 2022 winter Games were thwarted by a 2013 local vote. Hill said the latest result was “not going to make it easier in the future (for Germany) to get into the Olympics.” The rejection is also a blow to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) whose wide-ranging reforms voted in last year were aimed at making the Games more attractive to host cities. Hamburg’s concept involved the Games being held in the Kleiner Grasbrook area, technically an island but only a 10-minute walk from the city centre, that would have become the Olympic park and offered athletes and spectators short distances to travel to the competition venues. “The people of Hamburg took a decision and Hamburg will not be bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,” Mayor Olaf Scholz told reporters. “The senate and myself would have wished a different result but it is clear. It is a binding decision,” he said. Germans never showed widespread support for Hamburg, picked over Berlin earlier this year, and even a narrow victory in the referendum would not have won it any bonus points with the IOC, eager to see strong local support in potential or host cities of the Olympics. “We have to accept the vote of the citizens,” said German Olympic Sports Confederation chief Alfons Hoermann. “Olympics and Germany are not a good match at the moment.” The IOC will elect the hosts for the 2024 Games in 2017.