An image of a Sri Lankan runner using safety pins to attach her name tag to her shirt at the Tokyo Olympics has been shared in multiple posts, along with a claim implying that the national team's resources are stretched because "60 officials" chose to accompany them. But the claims are misleading the Sri Lanka Olympic Committee showed AFP evidence that only 20 officials are
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Sri Lankan Olympic contingent checks in at Games Village Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
TOKYO, July 21 – More than half of Sri Lanka’s contingent for the XXX11nd Summer Olympic Games have now arrived at the Athletes’ Village while the rest of the competitors are due here in the coming few days.
Judoka Chamara Dharmawardana, shuttler Niluka Karunaratne, gymnast Milka Gehani De Silva, shooter Tehani Egodawela and swimmer Aniqah Gaffoor have arrived at the Athletes’ Village during the past few days.
Apart from those five competitors, four more Sri Lankans are due to check in starting from tomorrow.
Swimmer Matthew Abeysinghe is scheduled to leave the US on Saturday and is expected to reach Tokyo on Sunday.
Brandix Apparel Limited, a leading apparel manufacturer in Sri Lanka, has committed its support for the Sri Lanka Olympic Team as a Presenting Partner for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Rajiv Malalasekera, Chief Executive Officer – Brandix Apparel Solutions Limited symbolically presented the sponsorship cheque to Suresh Subramaniam, President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka at a media event held recently to felicitate the participating athletes and announce the sponsors.
As part of the support extended to the Sri Lanka Olympic team, Brandix created specialized t-shirts as an inspired solution in gearing them for the international sporting arena. The t-shirt fabric, an innovation by Teejay Lanka – a company within the Brandix Group of companies – includes a base polyester material made from recycled PET bottles collected along the coastline of Sri Lanka and is developed with the support of Eco Spindles. The fabric is further processed using ‘Smart Undyed Technology�