Bungling and delays deprive Sri Lanka athletes of Tokyo passage-BY TB RAHAMAN Thiwanka Perera-Kalinga Kumarage -Nadeesha Ramanayake-Nimali Liyanarachchi-Sumedha Ranasinghe – – Source:Sundayobserver Sri Lankan track and field athletes who were eager to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics will be kicking their heels as they will not be able to travel to Kazakhstan for an international meet. They only way they could qualify was by way of earning more ranking points at international meets. Five athletes, 400m runners Kalinga Kumarage and Nadeesha Ramanayake, javelin thrower Sumedha Ranasinghe, 800m runner Nimali Liyanarachchi and high jumper Thiwanka Perera were preparing for the meet in Kazakhstan. The Sunday Observer reported two weeks ago that the Sri Lankan athletes will face difficulty in obtaining visas to travel to Kazakhstan as that country does not have an embassy in Sri Lanka. Above everything else, Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) delayed the process in conducting the National meet that would have selected the hopeful athletes who will have to obtain the necessary passage to Tokyo. But visas for…
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