Source:Sundayobserver Sumith Liyanage (extreme left) at Rome’s Leonarda Da Vinci on their arrival for the 1960 Olympics. The five-man team also included Linus Diaz (athletics), Tony Williams (swimming), Maurice Coomeravel (cycling), Dharmasiri Weerakoon (boxing) with Darley Ingleton as manager Sri Lanka’s oldest living Olympian mistakenly shot for an animal in ...

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“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain” No rum today. No matter. About nine in the morning there is a welcome shower. The sky is blue, the sun is shining and we have this utterly welcome shower. I ...

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