The final ranking may not paint a perfect picture, but there were brushstrokes of promise in Milka Gehani’s performance in the

A training programme for junior and senior ranked players was conducted by the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (T

Gymnast Milka Gehani and judoka Chamara Dharmawardene will lead Sri Lanka’s contingent at the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony, with the games, already marked by public apathy, hit by fresh controversy on Thursday. With athletes only allowed into the at

The Table Tennis association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) will commence training for juniors (Under 15 and 19) and senior ranked players in the Provinces of Ambalangoda, Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna from July 24. The training is funded by the Asian T

Sri Lanka head coach Mickey Arthur lost the plot once more following Sri Lanka’s series defeat to India in the second ODI worked off in R. Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday. Sri Lanka were in a commanding position to clinch what would have been a great

Former St. Benedict’s College, Kotahena cricket captain Elmo Rodrigopulle will go on his last journey today after a distinguished career as a sports journalist spanning over five decades. Elmo passed a

Keerthi Ranasuriya, one of the main scoreboard scorers of the ongoing Sri Lanka - India series, had tested Covid-19 positive a few hours before the second ODI, and was sent into immediate quarantine yesterday, it is learnt. According to the highly p

The Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) has decided to conduct the Junior and Senior National Table Tennis Championship from August 20-31. The Junior Nationals will be held on August 20-22, while the 74th Senior Nationals will be held on Au

Jaffna Stallions, one of the franchise teams of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), is likely to challenge its termination, it is reliably learnt. It has been widely reported in the media that the LPL organizers have decided to terminate the ownerships

India beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in the second one-day international to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series after Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar guided the tourists home with maiden half-centuries yesterday.

The Ministry of Sports has decided to provide smart face masks to the Sri Lanka cricket team and for national poolists in other sports. The masks which are 100 percent locally produced are being worn by the Sri Lankan contingent at the Tokyo Olympics

Veteran sports writer and Associate Editor (Sports) of the Sunday Observer, Elmo Rodrigopulle, passed away at the General Hospital yesterday following a brief illness. The former Sri Lanka Board-XI cricketer and ex-St. Benedict’s College cricket c

Football Sri Lanka has decided to recommence the Lanka Super League, which was temporarily suspended, in the third week of August. When the

REUTERS- South Africa will be at a disadvantage due to a lack of international rugby over the last 20 months but are still confident of success against the British & Irish Lions, first-choice hooker Bongi Mbonambi said yesterday. He will be scrumm

Preliminary round events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will begin today, with organisers forging ahead despite a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases amongst those participating in the games.

The Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation (SLWF) has decided to send a 40-strong team for the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship.

Three weeks ago, Nimali Liyanarachchi’s dream of taking part in an Olympics appeared as if it would not come to fruition.

Team USA got back on track as they came from behind to beat reigning world champion Spain 83-76, in their final exhibition game before heading to Tokyo for the Olympic men’s basketball tournament. Damian Lillard sco

The English Football Association have commissioned an independent investigation after ticketless fans fought their way into Wembley before the Euro 2020 final. It has been re

Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta and Norway’s Casper Ruud, winners in Hamburg and Bastad respectively at the weekend, both climbed two places in the ATP rankings published yesterday. Former world number 10 Carreno Busta, who beat Filip Kraj

Skipper Shikhar Dhawan and debutant Ishan Kishan hit half-centuries as India hammered Sri Lanka by seven wickets yesterday in the first one-day international of a series delayed by the corona virus. Chasing 263 for v

Lewis Hamilton fought back from a 10-second penalty for a crash with title rival Max Verstappen to pass Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and claim a dramatic British Grand Prix victory yesterday. Verstappen, 23, was taken to hospital for precautionary tes

Three weeks ago, Nimali Liyanarachchi’s dream of taking part in an Olympics appeared as if it would not come to fruition. A day before the Olympic qualification deadline of June 29, the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) announced a ni

Two schoolboys were selected to represent Sri Lanka in the ASBC Asian Junior and Youth Boxing Championship, to be held in Dubai from August 17-31. Nalanda

Sri Lanka’s former captain Dinesh Chandimal is scheduled to meet the chief selector Pramodya Wickramasinghe today at the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) office, it is reliably learnt. The 31-year

The Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB) has decided to conduct a selection trial to pick the squad for the 21st Asian Men’s Senior Volleyball Championship, at the Volleyball House indoor stadium in Galle tomorrow. The tournament,

Sri Lanka will field a group of nine athletes at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, to be held in Japan from August 24 to September 5. The National Paralympic Committee (NPC) of Sri Lanka will be sending a nine-strong contingent of athletes and their coache

Olympics chief Thomas Bach said yesterday that Tokyo Games anti-virus rules “are working”, as the Japanese capital recorded its highest number of new infections since January. With just over a week until Tokyo 2020 opens for events mostly behin

Michael Appleton, New Zealand’s High Commissioner-designate for Sri Lanka, made a cordial visit to Sri Lanka Rugby with