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  The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games has begun in Tokyo, with a blaze of white and indigo fireworks officially kicking off the quadrennial international sporting event being held under the unprecedented circumstances of…

Sri Lanka denied India of making a clean sweep as they clinched the rain-hit third and final One Day International (ODI) by three wickets on the Duckworth and Lewis scoring method at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.…

Zimbabwe's tour of Ireland, which was scheduled to start on August 6, has been rescheduled, Cricket Ireland announced on Thursday. The visitors were to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and five T20Is in Belfast and Northern…

TOKYO, July 22 – The stage is set for the world’s biggest sports extravaganza – the XXX11nd edition of the modern Olympic Games, which will be unveiled at the Japanese capital of Tokyo tomorrow. The star attraction will be the…

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On behalf of Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Sugiyama Akira, Deputy Mission Head Kitamura Toshihiro called on Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa before he left for Tokyo on Wednesday. Kitamura expressed the Mission’s appreciation for the…

Alexis Vega powered a header into the net for the first goal of the Men’s football Tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Mexico defeated France 4-1 at the Tokyo Stadium yesterday. The man from Guadalajara converted just two minutes…

Sri Lanka have been fined 20 percent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate against India in the second One Day International (ODI) in Colombo on Tuesday. Ranjan Madugalle of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match…

TOKYO, July 22 – South Asia’s fastest man Yupun Abeykoon is due to arrive here from Italy on Saturday (24) to compete in the XXX11nd Olympic Games. Abeykoon who lives in Europe will leave from Rome tomorrow while the other…

Kandy’s sports lovers are sad over the death of award-winning sports reporter, Elmo Michael Rodrigopulle who died on Tuesday at the age of 80 years . Elmo was one of the most well-known sports reporters for Daily Mirror and…