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Yohan Blake upset reigning Olympic champ Usain Bolt by winning the 200 metres in 19.80 seconds at the Jamaican Olympic Athletic Trials on Sunday, just two days after beating him in the 100 metres.

It was the latest clash between the two Jamaican stars ahead of the London Olympics, where Bolt’s supremacy in the sprinting world appears to be in danger.

Bolt finished second in 19.83 while Warren Weir also earned a ticket to the London Games by finishing third.

“I have been working hard and am seeing it paying off now,” Blake said.

“I was not surprised by the big win. I know what Bolt has to offer and I know he was not at 100 percent. I just tried to keep my form.”

Blake had won his 200m semi-final in 19.93 seconds on Saturday to set up another finals showdown with Bolt, who took his semi-final race in 20.26.

Blake produced his first upset of the weekend and one of the biggest in the sport this year by beating Bolt in Friday’s 100m final with a time of 9.75 seconds, becoming the fourth fastest man ever in the event.

Bolt, the 100m and 200m Olympic champ and world record holder, was second in 9.86 seconds after a poor start and Asafa Powell was third in 9.88 seconds.

“I can’t train for one person,” Bolt said on Sunday. “No one was talking about Blake and see what he did.”

Bolt says he now has plenty to prove heading into the Olympics and vowed to come back from these defeats.

“I am the Olympic champion and I have to show the world I am the best,” Bolt said. “I will always make a comeback. It is not like I was blown away. I know what I need to do to get it right.”

Blake ran the world-leading time on Sunday in the 200m but he did not beat his personal best of 19.26 which he set in September 2011.

Neither Blake nor Bolt have committed to running both sprints in London, saying they will leave the decision up to their Jamaican coach Glen Mills.

Blake said he was not surprised by the weekend results, adding he “worked hard” to get in top form.

Bolt is confident he can get up to speed with an accelerated training regime leading up to the Summer Olympics. It’s all about work and just needing to get my things together and get it right,” Bolt said. “I got to get in the work and figure out what I did wrong.

“I have to work hard to get ready for the Olympics. I think I am a little bit weak but three more weeks should be good enough to get back into shape.”

South Africa will host host this year’s Champions League T20 tournament. South Africa was chosen by cricket chiefs meeting in Kuala Lumpur today (Tuesday).

The fourth edition of the club Twenty20 tournament will be held in October in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Centurion and Durban, the ESPNCricinfo site reported.

Sundar Raman a member of the tournament’s technical committee said on twitter, “South Africa will host CLT20 this year. All other details to follow soon.”

Last month India invited Pakistan’s domestic champions Sialkot Stallions to join the Champions League, in what was considered a breakthrough towards the resumption of sporting ties between the two countries.

It will be the second time South Africa has hosted the event, which has also been held twice in India. The tournament is a joint initiative between India, South Africa and Australia.

The announcement was made on the sidelines of the International Cricket Council’s annual conference, which is taking place this week in the Malaysian capital.

Eden Hazard has finally ended speculation about his future by announcing he has decided to join Chelsea next season.

The 21-year-old Lille playmaker, who had long been linked with a move to the Barclays Premier League, revealed he had chosen the newly-crowned European champions on his official Twitter account.

He wrote: “I’m signing for the champions league winner.”

Hazard earlier continued to keep fans of several clubs in suspense by posting he had “made up his mind” who he was going to join but declined to name the team in question.

There was no official confirmation on Monday evening from either Chelsea or Lille that a deal had been reached over the signing of Hazard, who has been rated at £32million.

But reports in France suggest the Belgium star has agreed a five-year contract worth as much as £100,000 a week after tax.

Rwanda National football team Amavubi was this Sunday walloped 5 goals by the Tunisian national team. Amavubi managed to score only one goal in the weekend friendly match.

The first half ended with Tunisia leading with only one goal against a goalless Amavubi.

The second half saw Amavubi score its only goal by Dady Birori and Tunisia scoring 4 goals.

Tunisia made two extra attempts at the Amavubi net towards the end of second half.

Residents of Bugesera district were treated to a thrilling weekend Car Rally championships code named Rally de L’Est in which Olivier Costa emerged the champion.

The rally was organized Rally Automobile Club. The competition started at about 1PM at Nyamata at Black and White. The competitors had to go through 3 rounds at Rilima-Mwogo circuit.

The final results indicated performances of competitors where Oliver Costa came in the first position.

1. Costa Olivier

2. Mayaka Felekeni

3. Kwizera Claude

4. Giancarlo Davite

5. Johnny Murengezi

6. Cyarangabo A.Francois

7. Serge Rusagara

Manchester City has ended a 35-year trophy drought by winning the FA Cup after Yaya Toure’s second-half goal secured a 1-0 win over Stoke.

The Ivory Coast midfielder was immediately mobbed by his teammates as City celebrated a deserved goal.

Stoke was playing in the FA Cup final for the first time in its 148-year history and the team’s supporters were in fine voice as they sang the club’s unofficial anthem, Tom Jones’ Delilah, ahead of kickoff.

However, while the fans revelled in the Wembley experience, Stoke’s players appeared to be overawed by the occasion as City dominated the first half.

Carlos Tevez, who recovered from a hamstring injury to lead the team, drew a good save from Sorensen after only five minutes, and the Danish goalkeeper was relieved to see Toure’s thumping 35-metre effort go past his left-hand post in the 11th.

Sorensen again came to his side’s rescue in the 24th by athletically palming away a shot from Balotelli that was heading for the top corner, but the best chance fell to Silva, who shot into the ground and over the bar with Sorensen out of position.

Stoke, as expected, relied on its set-piece expertise, but Rory Delap’s first long throw was easily dealt with by City’s defence and Jermaine Pennant struggled to find any accuracy with his free kicks.

Stoke settled after the break but its first sustained spell of pressure almost ended in the first goal for City, who broke from defending a free kick in the 55th and sent Tevez racing down the right.

Rwanda is expected to get a new cricket stadium constructed by funds raised from auctioning British Prime Minister David Cameron’s most valuable possessions.

Cameron who considered a bat signed by Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar as one of his ‘most valuable possessions’, has donated it to raise money for a cricket stadium in Rwanda.

The bat fetched 3,400 pounds at an auction at the Lord’s to raise funds for the stadium project.

During an event of the Conservative Friends of India, Cameron had spoken how he cherished the bat and Tendulkar’s signature during his visit to India in 2010.

He told the Indian audience that he was horrified when he saw his wife Samantha play French cricket with the same bat at the Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence, adding: “I said, ‘No, darling, put it down, this is probably the most valuable possession I have.’

The auction, held in the Long Room at Lord’s, was to commemorate the life of Christopher Shale, Cameron’s constituency chairman, who was found dead at the Glastonbury festival last summer.

Shale’s son, Edo, said the event raised almost 130,000 pounds for the project.

He Press that “We are all delighted and a little exhausted. These funds are the springboard this charity needs to take us into the construction phase of the cricket stadium.”

The Rwandan cricket team is the team that represents the country of Rwanda in international cricket matches.

They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2003. Their international debut came in the African Affiliates Championship in 2004, where they finished seventh.

In 2006 they competed in Division Three of the African region of the World Cricket League, improving their performance and finishing in sixth. They will remain in Division Three in 2008.

Rwanda has a junior U-17 team participating in the East Africa Regional U-17 Tournament. In their first match in the 2008 version of the tournament the team lost to Uganda by 10 wickets.

In the Matches played recently under the Copa Coca-Cola in different districts of the country, IGIHE brings you the full results as at 29/04/2012.

Nyarugenge- Bugesera

Girls- 0-1

Boys 9-1

Ngororero-Muhanga

Girls-1-0

Boys=1-2

Nyamagabe-Gisagara

Girls-3-0

Boys=2-0

Burera-Rulindo

Girls= 0-2

Boys=1-2

Musanze-Gakenke

Girls=2-2(Penalty 1-3)

Boys=5-1

For 01/05/2012 : Nyamasheke-Rusizi

Girls=2-1

Boys=3-3 and there was penalty shootout and the scores were 1-3