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GUYANA CHRONICLE Friday, December 2, 2016
RHT Bakewell ‘A’ wins Food for the Poor tournament A brilliant final over bowled by veteran left-arm spinner Sunil Marimuthoo led Rose Hall Town Bakewell “A’ to another cricket championship. Playing at the Area ‘H’ ground, the home team won by five runs after they held their nerves to successfully defend their total of 60. Batting first against a determined Young and Restless team, the hosts rattled up 60-2 off their allotted five overs, with Delbert Hicks stroke an unbeaten 30. In response, Young and Restless raced to 51-3 at the end of the penultimate over. Thereafter the wily Marimuthoo conceded just five runs
The winning Rose Hall Town ‘A’ team.
in the final over. I n t h e f i r s t ro u n d , Young and restless defeated Kendall Union by ten wickets, Rose Hall Town ‘A’ defeated Tamarind Root by ten wickets, Rose Hall Canje cruised past Port Mourant Training Centre by eight wickets, while West Berbice defeated Fyrish by nine runs. In the semi-finals games Rose Hall town ‘A’ defeated Rose Hall Canje by 23 runs, while Young and Restless crushed West Berbice by ten wickets. R o s e H a l l To w n B a k e w e l l ‘ A’ re c e i v e d the winner’s package of $70,000 and championship trophy, Young and Restless
took home $30,000 and a trophy and Rose Hall Canje was $20,000 richer for their third place efforts. Meanwhile, Guysuco Training Centre easily won the male and female volleyball competition, while Rose Hall Town ‘A’ defeated Rose Hall Town ‘B’ 1-0 to win the football tournament. Tr o p h i e s f o r a l l t h e events were donated by the cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club. Club Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster stated that the day’s event was a huge success. Funds raised will be used by Food for the Poor for its charity work.
Russia athletics ban to run into 2017 Noble House Seafood second division By Mitch Phillips | MONACO
(REUTERS)-Russia’s athletics ban will run into 2017 and may include the August world championships after a Task Force monitoring the nation’s anti-doping programme refused yesterday to put any dates on a “road map” for a return. Rune Andersen, the Norwegian heading the independent Task Force, reported to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council that there had been areas of progress but many issues still needed clarifying in the new year. IAAF president Sebastian Coe said the Council felt “comforted” the changes had come about as a result of the decision to ban the Russians but recognised that athletics still had work to do to regain the trust of the public. “This is a pretty important week in the history of our sport,” said Coe who will present a series of radical governance reforms to a special Congress meeting on Saturday. “I do not want this sport to return to the grotesque stories that even over the last few days we’ve been waking up to,” he added, in reference to recent allegations of more corruption in the organisation under its previous leadership. The Russian Federation (RUSAF) was banned in November 2015 after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probe exposed state-sponsored doping on a massive scale. The suspension was upheld earlier this year, ruling almost all Russian track and field athletes out of the Rio
Olympics. On Thursday, Andersen indicated there was a chink of light for the country, one of the super-powers of athletics. “RUSAF has made further progress since June including anti-doping education modules and securing the co-operation of the Russian criminal authorities and parliament in criminalising the supply of doping products,” he told a news conference. “But one of the key remaining issues is how to demonstrate the IAAF and RUSADA (Russian Anti-Doping) will be able to carry out testing without
Rune Andersen-head of the IAAF taskforce on Russia interference which is a key part of their reinstatement. McLAREN REPORT “The Task Force will go to Moscow in January to assess the response to part two of the McLaren report on Dec. 9 and to monitor progress.” Richard McLaren, co-author of the independent WADA report, is due to release the second part of his findings in London next week. Andersen said the Task Force would report back to
Council in February when it hoped to “identify a clear road map” for Russia’s return. However, he declined to give any further likely timeframe and it appears unlikely the nation will be in the frame for the European indoor championships in Belgrade in March. Earlier yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin used his state of the nation address to say he thought effective measures would be in place early in the new year. “I am sure the so-called doping scandal will allow us to create the most advanced system of righting this evil in Russia,” Putin said. “I assume the national programme of counter-acting doping will be ready as early as the beginning of next year.” Today, the IAAF will announce the winners of the male and female athlete of the year awards while Saturday’s Congress is to discuss and almost certainly improve Coe’s radical shakeup of the organisation. Those changes, geared towards making the IAAF more accountable and transparent and establishing an independent integrity unit, will be debated against a backdrop of more allegations of massive corruption by Coe’s predecessor Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata Diack. Both men are being investigated by French prosecutors for alleged corruption and money-laundering and have been accused of accepting bribes to cover up positive doping tests and influencing the award of hosting rights for major events.
quarter-finals on this weekend
QUARTER-finals action in the Georgetown Cricket Association sponsored Noble House Seafoods second division two-day cricket competition will be played this weekend at four venues across the capital city. Police will host Malteenoes Sports Club
(MSC), with Mikoowanyah Yisreal and Hortense Isaac overseeing the action. A t C a m p Ay a n g a n na GDF will play GNIC, with Shannon Crawford and Totaram Ramnarine the men in charge. In the other quarter-final game will see the battle between host Everest and
DCC. Slemroy Lambert and Deon Feassal are the on field umpires, while the final game will see Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) entertain Transport Sports Club (TSC) under the guidance of Javed Persaud and Joseph Jeffrey. All matches are scheduled for 10:30hrs start.