A fiery half-century from Evin Lewis laid the platform for a 200 target set by West Indies, which seemed well within reach for Australia until a slew of dynamic fielding efforts during the chase turned the tide back the way of the hosts as West Indies clinched a 16-run victory to complete a 4-1 series […]
Chantique Carey-Payne, the head coach of the University of Guelph’s swim team, said she was ‘completely shocked’ to hear FINA has banned Black female athletes from using Afro swim caps to protect their natural hair at this summer’s Olympics. Black female swimmers have been told they cannot wear Afro swim caps at the upcoming Tokyo […]
A superbly constructed century partnership between Shimron Hetmyer and Dwayne Bravo was the cornerstone of an impressive West Indies performance as they went 2-0 up against Australia. Having pulled victory from the jaws of defeat 24 hours ago this time a West Indies victory felt far more secure after they had posted a formidable 196 […]
Namibian track and field stars Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi – both aged 18 – turned in four of the top five women’s 400m times in the world this year. They were on a fast-track to Olympic medals, but then their stellar rise came to a sudden halt. The pair was banned from competing […]
Stafanie Taylor became the second West Indies Women player to claim a T20I hat-trick as the hosts swept Pakistan Women 3-0 in North Sound, Antigua. After dismissing Pakistan’s top-scorer Aliya Riaz, Diana Baig and No.11 Anam Amin off successive balls in the final over of the first innings, Taylor followed up with an unbeaten 43 […]
Elaine Thompson-Herah led a clean sweep of the medals in the women’s 100m, running a meet record 11.03 seconds (-1.2m/s) at the 32nd International Meeting of Athletics Sport Solidarity in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, last Saturday. MVP TC athletes won three events at the one-day meet that is held at their European base with Nigel Ellis […]
Four-time Guyanese-born Olympian, Aliann Pompey, has achieved another milestone in her long athletics career. Pompey has been appointed head coach of the St. John’s Track and Field and Cross-Country program. The appointment comes after Pompey was announced as the new sprints and hurdles coach of the Red Storm in the fall of 2014 and on […]
West Indies repeated their batting mistakes from last weekend’s loss with another happy-go-lucky approach, as they slumped to a one-run defeat to South Africa in the third Twenty20 International here Tuesday. Chasing 168 in a near carbon copy of Sunday’s contest at the Grenada National Stadium, West Indies attacked from the outset but were once […]
Legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and his partner, Kasi Bennett, announced last Father’s Day that the couple had recently welcomed a pair of twin boys to their family. The twins, Saint Leo and Thunder, mark the second and third children the couple has together. It is unclear when exactly the twins were born, though this […]
French Open organizers said they took a “pragmatic” approach in their dealings with four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka earlier in the tournament, insisting they tried to engage with her several times before she decided to withdraw from the clay-court Grand Slam. Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros after she was fined $15,000 for skipping the […]
