Carlton Super Sports Mountain Biking, a big draw
Tharunyata Hetak organization in collaboration
with National Mountain Biking Association will conduct the Carlton
Super Sports Mountain Biking Championship 2013 at Tissa on March 1.
The programme will commence at 7.a.m. with a Cycling Rally “CYCLONE”
a free for all ride, and organizers hope to attract about 2000
cyclists from all walks of life to parade with the theme of “go
green with cycling”.
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Prasanna felicitated on retirement
Athletics super star Prasanna Amarasekara who
brought honour to Sri Lanka by winning 50 international medals
during his career announced his retirement from competitive sports
yesterday at the National Institute of Sports Science, Colombo.
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Thurstanites bounce back to beat Cambrians
Thurstan College, Colombo after conceding a
first innings lead of 64 runs bounced back to beat Prince of Wales’
College by 148 runs in their inter-school second eleven cricket
match worked off at Moratuwa.
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RANIL ABEYNAIKE
A versatile Sportsman, cricket commentator and
Curator:
To the COLLEGE therefore we sing, For all we
have and are While turning the pages of my son – Bhagya’s Thomian
cricket scrap book, I came across this poem - Eight lines in bold
letters. I was thinking to myself, how many times my good friend
Ranil, who sat next to me in the Commentator’s Box here and abroad,
that brilliant knowledgeable, cricket commentator par excellence
RANIL GEMUNU ABEYNAIKE must have sung these lines many a times. He
was moulded in the true gentlemanly Thomian tradition as depicted in
the above lines.
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