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The Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) set up a long standing and much needed basketball backstop in the vicinity of Torrington recently to facilitate their players for training without any hindrance. Amal Edirisooriya,…

Maldives received the nod over Nepal to host the SAFF Football Championship after a final discussion held yesterday. The new dates for the tournament will be from October 1 to 13 at the Male Stadium in Maldives. This tournament…

TOKYO, August 8 – The XXX11nd Summer Olympiad came to a silent but colourful end at the National Olympic Stadium here in the Japanese capital today. There was no glamour as far as the public participation was concerned as the…

Tokyo, August 8 - Jason Kenny accounted for the seventh Olympic Gold Medal, storming ahead to win the Men’s Keirin on the final day of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan today. The legendary cyclist from Great Britain was in a…

Tokyo, August 8 - Great Britain’s Lauren Price beat China’s Qian Li on points in the Women’s middleweight boxing final on the last day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games today. The British boxer won with a unanimous decision from the…

TOKYO, August 8 – The USA had a comfortable 3-0 win over Brazil in the final of the Women’s volleyball match to take the Gold Medal of the 2020 Olympic Games at the Ariake Arena today. Brazil could not match the American…

TOKYO, August 8 – Hosts Japan produced a superb fourth quarter (19-15) but their late fight-back could not prevent the USA pulling off an exciting 90-75 win in the Women’s basketball tournament final of the 2020 Olympic Games,…

The Kandy District Hockey Associations (KDHA) is all out to bring back the game to its former position as soon as they receive the greenlight from the authorities. Today, sportsmen and women at school and at club level are…

Northern Warriors led by Seekkuge Prasanna emerged champions of the Army Commander’s Cup T20 League Cricket Tournament when they defeated Western Warriors by 64 runs in the final played at Dombagoda on Friday. Shehan Fernando was…

Nalanda College Skipper Raveen de Silva was a fine all-rounder, who excelled during the Under-19 Division One Tier ‘A’ Inter-Schools Limited Overs Cricket Tournament. He scored 338 runs with a century and two half-centuries in…