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Amber English scooped her first Olympic Gold Medal after winning the skeet shooting Women’s final at the Asaka Shooting Range in Tokyo yesterday. The skeet shooter showcased nerves of steel as she eclipsed her opponents after…

Hosts Japan produced an Olympic Gold Medallist who is just 13 years of age on Day-3 of events in Tokyo yesterday. The first-ever Olympics street skateboarding competition, the Gold Medallist, Momiji Nishiya, wrote her name in the…

Dushmantha Chameera said that Sri Lanka’s Bowling Coach Chaminda Vaas had played a major role in his success with the national team in the recent past. Chameera praised the former Sri Lankan left-arm seamer for his guidance and…

TOKYO, July 26 – Any hopes Sri Lanka had of going beyond the first-round in the 73kg judo competition of the XXX11nd Olympic Games was dashed by Djibouti’s Aden-Alexandre Houssein in 29 seconds here today. Competing in the judo…

TOKYO, July 26 – Sri Lanka swimming coach Manoj Abeysinghe said it is too early to predict anything on tomorrow’s Olympic Games Men’s 100m freestyle heats where Matthew Abeysinghe will be competing. “It’s not easy to predict…

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Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer won a surprise road race gold and Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui stunned the favourites in the pool on a drama-filled second day at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday. There were also upsets in the tennis,…

Tunisia's Ahmed Hafnaoui shocked the swimming world with a superb win in the Men's 400m freestyle final at the Olympics yesterday. The 18-year-old, who finished eighth in the same event at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos…

The three-match One Day International (ODI) series between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been moved to Sri Lanka from the UAE, an Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) official confirmed yesterday. The series that will commence from…

Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Namal Rajapaksa, who graced the Olympic Games opening ceremony as a special invitee on Friday night, witnessed Sri Lanka gymnast Milka Gehani de Silva competing at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre…