OTHER NEWS South Asian champion Priyadarshani tests positive for banned drug Brandix to support weightlifter at Olympics Charith Senanayake appointed manager Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat - Arjuna    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Sri Lanka seeks reprieve for banned sprinter 21-04-2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka will ask the world athletics governing body to grant a reprieve to banned woman sprinter Jani Chaturangani de Silva, the sports minister said on Monday. \"I have asked the lawyers to compile the facts related to Jani\'s ban so that I could make a request to the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations),\" Gamini Lokuge told AFP. Lokuge said he believed there had been technical flaws in the investigation against De Silva, who won silver medals in 100 meters in the South Asia Federation Games in 2006 and 2008. She tested positive for Nandrolone in a urine sample tested in Malaysia after the 2006 Games in Colombo. \"I was told that the urine samples were not in a dry ice container when they were sent to Malaysia,\" Lokuge said. He said he would also be requesting the IAAF to back-date her ban from September 14, 2006. The IAAF last week banned her for two years with effect from April 14, 2008, ruling that all her performances since August 2006 be withdrawn. Print Version | Email to friend

South Asian champion Priyadarshani tests positive for banned drug Wed, 23-07-2008 21:00:00 Premila Priyadarshani who won the 100 metres gold medal at the South Asian Athletic Championships in March has tested positive for a banned drug, Athletics Association sources revealed yesterday. Priyadarshani had tested positive for the drug Terbutaline at the recent National Athletics championships in Colombo where she was subjected to a random test after finishing second in the 100 metres behind her arch rival N.C.D Priyadarshani. The results of the test done by ... |FULL STORY|

Brandix to support weightlifter at Olympics Wed, 23-07-2008 20:00:00 Champion weight lifter Chinthana Vidanage, one of just eight prospects from Sri Lanka at next month’s Beijing Olympics, received a valuable morale booster from his employer Brandix Lanka Limited when the country’s largest apparel exporter presented the athlete with a token of its support. Less than two weeks before he leaves for the greatest challenge in his athletic career, Vidanage was presented with sports gear and an assurance that his 25,000 colleagues at Brandix would also be... |FULL STORY|

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Charith Senanayake appointed manager Wed, 23-07-2008 13:00:00 Former Sri Lanka cricketer Charith Senanayake, a teammate of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) interim committee chairman Arjuna Ranatunga at Ananda College and also in the national team was appointed yesterday as the new manager of the Sri Lanka cricket team ending a prolonged controversy over the post just on the eve of the first cricket test starting today against India. The interim committee members who met at the SLC headquarters in a lengthy meeting agreed unanimously to the appointm... |FULL STORY|

Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat - Arjuna Tue, 22-07-2008 20:00:00 SLC chief and World Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga told media that Sri Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat. "Everyone in Lanka is keen to see him bat in real cricket and not cow-boy (shorter version) cricket. There are no words to describe him. One has to just look at his record. It says everything. He is the best batsman I have seen," Arjuna has been quoted as saying in the Indian paper Mid-Day. ... |FULL STORY|

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