Sports

Female apprentice Georgina Sergeon has been stood down for two racedays by the stewards of the Jamaica Racing Commission for careless riding aboard highly fancied GO MY ROBIN in the 11th and final race over 1500 metres at Caymanas Park last Saturday.

Fulham of England and Spanish club Atletico Madrid have earned the right to contest the first Europa League final.

Left-handed opening batsman Omar Phillips will replace Adrian Barath in the West Indies A-Team for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh.

Brandon Jennings scored 25 points and Milwaukee Bucks used a late 14-0 run to beat Atlanta 91-87 last night to move within one win of a first-round upset.

West Indies suffered a setback in their preparation for the World 20/20 Championship by crashing to a seven-run defeat to New Zealand in a day/night low scoring warm-up match at the Guyana National Stadium yesterday.

The four-day Berger King Inter-scholastic Tennis Championships begins this morning at 9 a.m. at the Eric Bell Centre.

Reigning champions, Lennon High and Excelsior will contest this year’s final of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/Locker Room Sports schoolgirls football competition.

Despite enjoying much of the early dominance, Jamaica's Reggae Boyz went down 2-0 to South Africa yesterday in their hastily arranged friendly international football match at the Kickers Offenbach Stadium, Germany.

Sprint wonder Usain Bolt will headline the 35th edition of the Athletissima athletics meeting in July, the seventh event of the star-studded 14-meet IAAF Diamond League series.

Defending champions, Lennon High and Excelsior will contest this year's final of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/Locker Room Sports schoolgirls football competition, following contrasting semi-final victories over St Jago and Trench Town, respectively, at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday.

The Sir Vivian Richards Stadium will make its comeback to international cricket after the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Tuesday announced the venue would host matches switched from Trinidad and Tobago for next month's South Africa tour.

Ten-man Inter Milan lost 1-0 at Barcelona yesterday, but still reached their first Champions League final in 38 years by beating the defending champions 3-2 on aggregate.