World Athletics U-20 Championship: Arrangements finally made to send SL team to Colombia: Harin

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Arrangements were finally made to send the Sri Lanka Junior Athletics team to Colombia to take part in the World Athletics U-20 Championship, Tourism Minister Harin Fernando said.

He said in a twitter post that the Sri Lanka team was not able to travel to the Championship as scheduled earlier, as officials failed to provide them with Air Tickets on time.

"Receiving a call from a parent of the Junior Athletics team that the team weren’t able to travel to Cali, Colombia due to visa and ticket issues, oversight by the officials, Roshan Ranasinghe and I with great difficulty made arrangements ensuring the team will attend on time," he tweeted.

Meanwhile, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe tweeted that he was aware of the group of 7 children are still struggling to catch a flight to Colombia and he was deeply disappointed that the federation nor the Director General of sports have taken necessary steps to facilitate these children despite his approval to fund them with the air ticket.

Sri Lanka Junior Athletics team and their parents stayed overnight at Torrington as a mark of protest, demanding justice for them.

Comments - 10

Lion Sunday, 31 July 2022 04:22 AM

This fellow who had been clamoring for the ouster of Ranil is very comfortable now in the lap of Ranil. What an irony and disgrace.

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Tony Sunday, 31 July 2022 04:48 AM

Send them to a Sunday mass first

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Sheni de silva Sunday, 31 July 2022 05:20 AM

Tourism Minister trying to be sporty

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Sanjeeva Primaal Sunday, 31 July 2022 06:41 AM

Bring back some Columbian goodies for Harin to sell.

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Curious Sunday, 31 July 2022 07:55 AM

Will they come back or crossover to US illegally

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Hg Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:07 AM

Typical Sri Lankan mentality. Without appreciating what he has done, throwing mud at him.

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Nm Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:15 AM

Don't blame only the politicians. Such officials, union leaders, clergy... ruin our country. Get rid of all these parasites, then only SL will prosper.

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Ma Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:18 AM

Well done. Getting together to do such a thing is great.

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Bon Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:19 AM

Hats off Harin. Good show.

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Nuwan Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:24 AM

May be not the safest place to travel to. But the officials who live for the sake of being officials are the rotten log on which the politician worms thrive on.

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