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GUYANA CHRONICLE Monday August 25, 2014
Bolt’s season comes to an early end OLYMPIC 100m champion Usain Bolt has brought his 2014 season to a premature end, organisers of
the Diamond League have confirmed. The Jamaican world record holder - who ran 9.98
Russell added to Windies squad for final ODI starting here today. Russell’s addition pushes the squad to 14 and is the only change to the unit which contested the opening games in Grenada last week. The 26-year-old is a lively seamer and a powerful lower order batsman, and is also a brilliant outfielder. He has played 35 ODIs, the last of which was against New Zealand on the West Indies tour there last January. The Windies hold an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series after winning the first game by three wickets and the second by 177 runs. Today’s game will be a day/night contest, bowling off at 14:30hrs at Warner Park. Andre Russell
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – All-rounder Andre Russell has been called up to the West Indies squad for the third and final One-Day International against Bangladesh
SQUAD: Dwayne Bravo (captain), Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Nikita Miller, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons.
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(Monday August 25, 2014) Compliments of THE TROPHY STALLBourda Market &The City Mall (Tel: 225-9230) & CUMMINGS ELECTRICAL CO. LTD-83 Garnette Street, Campbellville (Tel: 225-6158; 223-6055) Answers to yesterday’s quiz: (1) 356 sixes (2)Ross Taylor & Andre Russell (9 catches each) Today’s Quiz: (1) How many ODIs the WI and Bangladesh have contested against each other in Bangladesh? (2)Who is the first player to captain the WI in an ODI game against Bangladesh? Answers in tomorrow’s issue
Usain Bolt
seconds indoors in Poland on Saturday - will not compete in Thursday’s final event in Zurich. The decision was made by the 28-year-old’s coach, Glen Mills. Bolt, who has run only three races this season, won gold with Jamaica’s 4x100m relay team at the Commonwealth Games. “Usain’s body has delivered tremendous performances over the last years,” said Diamond League Final meet director Patrick Magyar. “But it is a body and not
a machine. “If an athlete of that level and his coach feel more rest is needed, we are certainly not going to question this and fully support this decision.” Bolt only ran his first 100m of the year in an exhibition race on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on August 17. He posted a time of 10.6 seconds before turning out in Warsaw on Saturday. His last competitive individual appearance at the 100m came in Brussels last year. (BBC Sport)
Lyles gives U.S. track and field win at Youth Olympics NANJING China (Reuters) - American teenager Noah Lyles stormed to victory in the men’s 200 metres sprint yesterday to provide the United States with their first gold medal in track and field at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. The 16-year-old lived up to his billing as the pre-race favourite as he charged to victory in 20.80 seconds. “I took the win from the Jamaicans. I took the win from everybody else. I definitely wanted to prove that we’re (U.S.) still on top,” he said. “Coming in with a big target on your back, there’s always pressure. But you can’t worry about it, you’ve just got to run your own race and do the best you can.” Jamaica did win the women’s 200m final when Natalliah Whyte scored in 23.55 seconds on the busiest day of the Games, with 33 gold medals decided, including 12 in athletics. Anatoly Ryapolov won the men’s long jump with a distance of 7.54m while Kenya’s Gilbert Kwemoi Soet won the men’s 1500m, and celebrated by performing a series of karate kicks. Gabriel Luis Moreno made it the archery field just in time to join forces with China’s Li Jiaman and win the mixed international team event. Moreno almost missed his event after his taxi driver got lost but got there in the nick of time. “I had to go into the
Noah Lyles competes in the men’s 200-metre at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games yesterday in Nanjing, China. New Zealand’s Emily quarterfinals with almost no warm-up time,” he said. “But thankfully, that did not harm my performance.” Britain’s Giarnni Regini-Moran and Nikita Nagornyy of Russia each won his third gold medals in men’s gymnastics in Nanjing. Regini-Moran, who won the all-around and floor gold medals earlier in the Games, won the vault while Nagornyy added the parallel bars to his earlier wins in the pommel horse and rings. China’s Wang Yan picked up her second gold when she won the balance beam while Brazil’s Flavia Lopes Saraiva and Japan’s Kenya Yuasa both struck their first gold. China’s Yang Hao won the men’s three-metre springboard diving final, sealing the victory with a forward two-and-a-half somersault.
Alexandr Lifanov of Russia took the gold in the men’s modern pentathlon individual event. Singapore claimed two gold on the water when 15-year-old Samantha Yom and Cheok Khoon Bernie Chin won their sailing events. Argentina’s Francisco Cruz Saubidet Birkner won the men’s windsurfing gold on a count-back from Russia’s Maxim Tokarev while China’s Wu Linli dominated the women’s event. China’s Xu Shilin won the women’s tennis singles gold, beating Iryna Shymanovich, who won the doubles on Saturday 6-3, 6-1, while Orlando Moraes Luz made amends for his loss in the men’s singles final when he teamed up with his fellow Brazilian Marcelo Zormann Silva to win the doubles.
Fraser managed to break Europe’s domination of the equestrian events when she won gold after a jump-off. “It was nerve-racking,” Fraser said. “My horse was jumping during the warmup before the jump-off, and I was hoping everything would go right.” The Czech Republic beat Italy by the smallest of margins to win the international mixed relay, the last cycling event of the Games. Belarus won two of the four gold medals on offer in canoeing and kayaking sprints with Kamila Bobr taking the women’s C1 and Stanislau Daineka winning the men’s K1. Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova won the men’s C1 while Russia’s Inna Nikitina was the winner of the women’s K1.