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Novak Djokovic’s bid for a ‘Golden Slam’ is in doubt after the Wimbledon champion said he was ‘50-50’ about whether to go to the Tokyo Olympics. The world number one beat Matteo Berrettini 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday to…

Italy claimed the European Championship for the first time since 1968 as penalties came back to haunt England at Wembley on Sunday, Gianluigi Donnarumma saving twice as the Azzurri won a shootout 3-2 after the game finished 1-1…

At the AGM of the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) held last January, the posts of President and the Treasurer that were kept vacant due to technical reasons, were finally filled by Aelian Gunawardena, who was elected uncontested…

Table Tennis High Performance development Programme recipients are seen here with Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa and TTASL President Kanaka Herath at the Sports Ministry.  From left Senura Silva, Krishan Wickramaratne, Chameera…

17 year old, Osanda Heenkenda a Grade Eleven student of St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy is an outstanding cricketer who started playing cricket for the under 13 Team in the year 2014 when he was 10 years old under the coaching of…

With the World Cup triumphs in 1996 and 2014 in the shorter version of the game cricket has undoubtedly become the cynosure of all eyes as a team sport in the country. Even though the National team’s performance is low at the moment,…

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wants to form a consortium of sorts with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to jointly host two World Cups. It also intends to stage two Twenty20 World Cups together with…

Bangladesh stretched themselves but completed a comprehensive 220 -run victory over Zimbabwe in the one-off Test in Harare yesterday. Needing seven wickets on the final day, Bangladesh overcame numerous fielding errors and found…

Ashleigh Barty won her maiden Wimbledon title on Saturday as she beat Karolina Pliskova in a nervy final to become the first Australian Women's champion for 41 years. Barty won the first 14 points to take early charge in a 6-3,…

Two more prefectures - Fukushima and Hokkaido - outside the immediate Tokyo area have decided to bar fans from attending Olympic events because of the rising Coronavirus infections, Tokyo Olympic organisers confirmed yesterday with the…