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Striker Richarlison scored a first half hat-trick as Brazil launched their Olympic Gold Medal campaign with a 4-2 win over Germany in a key Men’s tournament match on Thursday. In a repeat of the 2016 Olympic Gold-Medal match in…

Twelve new COVID-19 cases were detected by last night, bringing the total number of Coronavirus cases related to the Tokyo Games personnel to 87. There have been eight positive cases directly among the competitors. Six British…

Three Sri Lankan competitors will be seen in action at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics today (24). They are Niluka Karunaratne in badminton Men’s Singles first round, Tehani Egodawela in shooting Women’s 10m air rifle, and Aniqah Gaffoor…

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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…

Twenty two year old Safiya Yamik an old girl of Vihara Maha Devi Balika, Kandy who was in School from Grade One onwards is an outstanding Athlete. She started her athletic career when she was 13 years old winning 100 and 200 metre…