(04-09-2021, 12:28 PM)Bada Wrote: Watched an AFL game after a long time. Tight game throughout. Great crowd at Adelaide Oval.
Is AFL popular in the South?
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04-09-2021, 01:56 PM
(04-09-2021, 12:28 PM)Bada Wrote: Watched an AFL game after a long time. Tight game throughout. Great crowd at Adelaide Oval. Is AFL popular in the South? 04-10-2021, 01:40 AM
(04-09-2021, 01:56 PM)stillwill Wrote:(04-09-2021, 12:28 PM)Bada Wrote: Watched an AFL game after a long time. Tight game throughout. Great crowd at Adelaide Oval. The question should be - Is AFL popular in Sri Lanka? 04-10-2021, 04:45 AM
(04-10-2021, 01:40 AM)pj57 Wrote:(04-09-2021, 01:56 PM)stillwill Wrote: Is AFL popular in the South? Zip it and go take a nap. Do you not have anything better to do with your life ? You have to be the most irritating poster on here. No one was talking to you. Stop always seeking attention. No one really takes you seriously. 04-10-2021, 04:57 AM
(04-10-2021, 04:45 AM)stillwill Wrote:(04-10-2021, 01:40 AM)pj57 Wrote: The question should be - Is AFL popular in Sri Lanka? Please stay away from discussions (for your own good) if you don't know how to have a conversation without getting personal. At some point you are bound to lose your cool at this rate. It's a forum where any member can reply to your posts. If you were asking about the southern parts of SL, I don't think AFL is a big thing here. Rugby has a decent following. I used to watch AFL games when I was a teenager. MTV ran it on Saturdays back then. Carlton is the team I remember. It's a faster game compared to rugby with not many pauses. 05-03-2021, 02:20 AM
https://www.businessnews.lk/2021/05/02/yevan-david-13-year-old-sri-lankan-won-2021-champions-of-the-future-karting-race-in-belgium/
Yevan David of Sri Lanka made history by winning the first round of the “2021 Champions of the Future Karting Race” in Genk, Belgium. From the start of the race, Yevan David was among the top ten karters, eventually moving up to third at the halfway point of the 10-lap race. From lap 7, the 13-year-old continued to put pressure on the leaders, eventually taking the race away from them in the final lap. He is the first Sri Lankan to win a Karting event in an international competition. Video 05-09-2021, 05:11 AM
USA-based Sri Lankan athlete Ushan Thiwanka Perera has set a new South Asian and Sri Lankan high jump record at the 2021 Lone Star Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, in Texas.
The 23-year-old, who represents Texas A&M University-Commerce, set the record with a jump of 2.30 meters to place first in the Men’s High Jump event at the outdoor championships. The former schoolboy of Maris Stella College, who left the country on a scholarship last year to Texas A&M University-Commerce, is presently training and following his higher studies in Texas. In March this year, Thiwanka had broken the long-standing Sri Lanka high jump record of 2.27m which was set by Manjula Kumara Wijesekera in 2004 and equaled in 2005. He had also previously set a new Sri Lanka indoor high jump record of 2.26m. Thiwanka started his athletics career at Karunaratne Buddhist School at Ragama and was able to develop his skills at Maris Stella College under the guidance of his coach Sanarath Fernando. http://adaderana.lk/news/73692/ushan-thiwanka-sets-new-sri-lanka-and-south-asia-high-jump-record 05-31-2021, 01:03 AM
http://www.dailynews.lk/2021/05/31/sports/250517/pushpakumari-secures-bronze-asian-boxing-meet
Sri Lanka Women's boxer Nadeeka Pushpakumari produced a splendid performance to win the Bronze Medal at the Asian Boxing Championship in Dubai, UAE on Saturday. Pushpakumari representing Vidyarathna SC lost to two-time World champion Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan and eventually earned the Bronze Medal in the 51kg flyweight category. Nazym had to play with four-time world champion Indian Mary Kim in the final. Nearly 300 boxers from 27 countries participated in this championship. Sri Lankan fielded seven boxers including four Men and three Women's for this championship. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka Boxing Federation President Dian Gomes said that this Asian Championship was very tough with Sri Lankan pugilists having to face some of the world’s top boxers and most of them had already entered the Tokyo Olympics Games. “I think, winning a Bronze Medal was very important and this is after the 2013 Asian Championships held in Mongolia that a Sri Lankan boxer had won a medal in an Asian Championship,” Gomes told the Daily News yesterday. “It was for the first time that this team went on this tour with the support of the Sports Ministry during this hard time,” he emphasised. “We could not take part in any international competition for more than a year and a half because of the COVID-19 pandemic.” “We also could not conduct the national pool training because boxing is a contact sport. But the boxers who had qualified for the Olympic Games took part in this Asian Meet,” added Gomes. The Sri Lanka Team: (Men): Sajeewa Nuwan Kumara (Army BC - light flyweight 49kg), K. V. L. Eranda (Vidyarathna SC - flyweight 52kg) P. A. R. Prasanna (Army BC - bantamweight 56kg) and N. B. A. J. Vimukthi Kumara (Army BC - lightweight 60kg). (Women): Rashmika Heshani Illangaratne (Police SC - light flyweight 48kg), Nadeeka Pushpakumari (Vidyarathna SC - flyweight 51kg) and K. A. K. Hansika (Vidyarathna SC - featherweight 57kg). |
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