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Larissa Klaassen jumped up and down with joy together with her pilot Imke Brommer after receiving her Gold Medal for the Women’s B 1,000m time trial of the Tokyo Paralympics at the Izu Velodrome yesterday. This was Klaassen’s…

The Sri Lanka National Chess Team will compete in the FIDE Online World Chess Olympiad, which begins today. Sri Lanka will participate in the Level-3 according to the initial rankings and will face Nepal, Malaysia, Hong Kong,…

Great Britain’s Jaco van Gass cruised to victory in the Men’s cycling C3 3,000m individual pursuit to add Gold to the three Silvers the team won on day two of the Tokyo Paralympics in the Izu Velodrome yesterday. The 35-year-old…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday announced the selection of a 26-member Under-19 National Training Squad in preparation for the upcoming inbound tours, Under-19 Asia Cup, and the Under-19 World Cup. The Junior National Selectors…

 James Anderson's triple strikes with the new ball had India reeling at 56 for four at lunch on the opening day of the third Test against England at Headingley yesterday. In a scintillating display of swing bowling, after an unchanged…

In a humanitarian gesture, Sri Lanka’s white-ball Captain Dasun Shanaka has decided to donate his Man-of-the-Series prize money of the SLC Invitational T20 League to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital in Kalubowila. “It was brought…

Oarsman Mahesh Jayakody will be Sri Lanka’s first Para Athlete to be seen in action at the 16th Tokyo Games in Japan tomorrow. Jayakody has already created history as the first yachtsman to represent Sri Lanka at the Para Games and he…

Sri Lanka’s white-ball Captain Dasun Shanaka hopes that the national players will carry the same momentum into the limited overs series against South Africa after most of the key players showed excellent form during the SLC…

Asia Rugby (AR) hosted a hybrid World Rugby (WR) Match Officials’ Level-2 Course on August 22-23 at the Conference Room of the Uzbekistan Rugby Federation. The Level-2 Course was delivered remotely by WR Trainers Dilroy Fernando from…

 Pakistan eased to a 109-run win over the West Indies on the final day to end their Caribbean tour with a series-levelling win in the two-Test series in Kingston on Tuesday. Set 328, West Indies folded for 219 - losing nine wickets on…