A Sports Ministry proposal titled “Streamlining of management, maintenance and development of sports complexes and grounds built at provincial and district level” was part of the Cabinet proposals made on August 9 and was subsequently approved.
Earlier this month Karlsson was the first Sri Lankan to take part in an Equestrian event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, though an early automatic elimination, as a result of her horse Chopin VA refusing to twice jump obstacles on the course, meant that she could not achieve her goal of making the final round of the competition.
Skipper Dasun Shanaka continued his good batting form in the ongoing SLC Invitational T20 cricket tournament when he slammed an unbeaten 55 runs in just 22 balls which, along with a useful contribution from Kamil Mishara, helped the SLC Greys record a four-run win on Duckworth/Lewis over the SLC Greens at the Pallekele International Stadium yesterday.
Similar to the real F1 circuit, points on the leader board would be tallied at the end of the tournament to unveil Sri Lanka’s first-ever Formula One Assettocorsa Campion. A grand prize pool of SLR 50,000 is on offer by Mandarin Reid eSports for participants who grind their metal and race with guts of glory.
However, apart from pointing the finger at the current domestic structure which as many say decide who is taking office, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has come under very little criticism given how things stood perhaps ten years ago. So, has cricket in Sri Lanka been managed well?
Three golds on the final day of the games pushed the United States to the top of the medals table, overtaking China who had led going into today’s schedule of events, the third successive Olympics that the Americans finished on top.
Mandarin Reid research into time utilization of various audience throughout the day brought some very interesting statistics on gaming habits. The average gamer would spend close to 3 to 5 hours of their day gaming in some format or the other. Some of this would be late night – pushing the threshold of media touchpoint time utilization, but equally a high percentage played through what is known as traditional media contact time.
Italian sprinter Lamont Jacobs stormed his way to the first post-Usain Bolt era Olympic 100m title on a record-breaking night at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo yesterday, where the Women’s Triple Jump World Record was also bettered.
Not all dreams have fairy tale endings. Nimali Liyanarchchi achieved her decade-long dream of competing in an Olympics today when she took part in the first round of the Women’s 800m event at Tokyo 2020, but the ending was far from inspiring, as she finished last in her heat and was well off the pace overall.
Nimali Liyanarachchi will take part in the Women’s 800m heats tomorrow, the first day of track and field competition at Tokyo 2020.Liyanarachchi will take part in the fourth heat, scheduled to take place at 7:19 a.m. Sri Lanka time, and will run in a competitive field alongside Raevyn Rogers of the United States, ranked fourth in the world in the event, and Keely Hodgkinson of the Unites States, ranked 11th.
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