Friday January 18, 2013
Kaieteur News
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IOC strip disgraced Armstrong Jawahir leads Upper to of his Olympic bronze medal 5 wkts win over Lower from 2000 Games
Jumbo Jet Auto Sales West Berbice U-23 tourney
The winning Upper West Berbice team The Berbice Cricket Board as part of its efforts to improve the standard of cricket in West Berbice, last weekend organised a two-day match for Under-23 players at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground. Upper West Berbice defeated their Lower counterparts by five wickets to clinch the Jumbo Jet Auto Sales Trophy. Batting first after winning the toss, Lower were bowled out for 132; Keon Gravesande top scored with an attractive 42 (5x4), Keon Fraser 34 (3x4) and R. Gossai 12. B o w l i n g f o r U p p e r, promising leg spinner Kevon Jawahir claimed 6 wickets for 43 runs from 17 overs while left arm s p i n n e r Wa g a r H a s s a n took 2 for 32 from 8. In response, the host made 169 all out in 56 overs; skipper Deveshwari Prashad led with 45 (2x4), Derick Narine Lalsa Jr. 17 and Abdool Subhan 21. Medium
pacer Keyron Fraser was impressive claiming 5 wickets for 43 runs from 13 overs and Kris Ramnarine 3 for 40. Batting a second time with a first innings deficit of 37, the visitors were bowled out for 120; Ravi Gossai 39 (3x4), Azib Khan 26 and Quacy Mc Pherson 24 offered some resistance to the bowling of Jawahir, 3 for 39 to end with match figures of 9 for 82. Wagar Hussain supported with 4 for 40 from 14 overs. Needing to score 83 runs for victory in a maximum of 15 overs, Upper West Berbice reached 85 for 5 with five balls remaining. Aviskar Sewkarran was unbeaten on 30 while Nick Ramsaroop supported with 20. Keyron Fraser took 2 for 16 for the Lower West Berbice Team. BCB Public Relations Officer and Special Events Committee Chairman Hilbert Foster at the presentation
ceremony expressed gratitude to the Management of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales for sponsoring the match. The two-day encounter was organised as part of the Board’s countywide efforts to get young players to focus on the longer version of the game and Foster praised the youngsters for their commitment, passion and discipline. He committed the BCB to investing even more in West Berbice while urging the players to work hard at developing their personal game since 2013 promises to be an exciting one in the Ancient County. The Board has expressed its disappointment that five cricketers selected from the Young Achievers Club to play in the Lower West Berbice did not turn up for the match while no excuses were submitted. Disciplinary action would be taken against the players very shortly.
Williams, Azarenka into... From page 38 of Germany, No. 21 Andreas Seppi of Italy and Lithuanian qualifier Ricardas Berankis, who beat No. 25 Florian Mayer 6-2, 6-3, 6-1. Novak Djokovic advanced on Wednesday night, extending his winning streak at Melbourne Park to 16 with a 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win over 20-year-old American Ryan Harrison and remaining on track for a third consecutive Australian Open title. No. 4 David Ferrer, No. 5
Tomas Berdych and No. 8 Janko Tipsarevic all went through on day three, along with No. 20 Sam Querrey, the highest-ranked American left in the men’s tournament. Women’s No. 2 Maria Sharapova overwhelmed Japan’s Misaki Doi in 47 minutes, becoming the first woman to post back-to-back 6-0, 6-0 wins at a Grand Slam since 1985. She next plays seven-time major winner Venus Williams in the third round.
Sharapova leads the head-to-head series 4-3 against Venus Williams, but Williams has won both of their Grand Slam meetings. Venus is still on the comeback trail after missing seven months after the 2011 U.S. Open to deal with Sjogren’s Syndrome. Now seeded 25th, she dropped only one game in her first-round win and then went down a break early to Alize Cornet of France before winning 6-3, 6-3.
Lance Armstrong has been asked to hand back his Olympic medal following his confession to doping, confirming what was exclusively revealed by Sportsmail’s Jonathan McEvoy on Wednesday. The IOC acted after the International Cycling Union (UCI) disqualified all of Armstrong’s results as a consequence of the American rider being found guilty of systematic doping. Armstrong had 21 days to appeal against the UCI’s decision and once it was confirmed he had not done so, the IOC took action. An IOC spokesman said: ‘We have written to Armstrong asking for him to return the medal and informed the US Olympic Committee. ‘It was a decision taken in principle at the executive board before Christmas. We were waiting for confirmation from the UCI that he hadn’t appealed against his disqualification.’ The shamed icon was written to by the IOC after telling Oprah Winfrey that, despite years of denials, his seven Tour de France titles were fuelled by illegal stimulants - an admission that prompted the world’s leading crusader against drugs in sport to question cycling’s place in the Olympic Games. Dick Pound, an IOC member and the former head of the World Anti- Doping Agency, said if the governing UCI are complicit in Armstrong’s doping
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offences, ‘the only way they are going to clean up is if all these people say, “Hey, we’re no longer in the Olympics and that’s where we want to be so let’s earn our way back into it”. ‘The IOC would have to deal with it. The UCI are not known for their strong actions in anti-doping. It was the same in weightlifting a few years ago. ‘All of a sudden when you get right up against it things go fuzzy and they say, “Well, we can’t punish innocent athletes in these sports by dropping the sport from the program”.’ The IOC would see the expulsion of such a prominent Olympic sport as a last resort despite claims that Armstrong bribed the UCI. The retention of Olympic cycling would suit
British interests given that the country won 26 medals in the sport in the last two Games combined. The bleak news mounted up for Armstrong last night with Pound’s former organisation, WADA, insisting that the TV mea culpa will not result in his lifetime ban from sport being overturned. They told Armstrong that giving evidence ‘under oath’ - rather than to America’s talk show queen was the only conceivable way he could compete again in his favourite post-cycling pursuit, triathlon. Armstrong is being assailed by lawsuits potentially including one from US Postal, his former team - so we can be sure as ever the fallen star is calculating the cost of his every word. (Mail Online)