Dutee Chand loves her body just the way it is. She loves her long, dark hair, which is often pulled back into a tight ponytail, and the toned biceps she likes to show off with tank tops. As a young teenager, she was dismayed that her body lacked curves, but now, at 18, she loves that, too.

Ceylon Today Sports: Sri Lanka will be hoping to field over 70 athletes for the Asian Para Games which will be worked off from October 18 to 24 in Inchoen, Korea.

Newstead Girls School, Negombo jumper Vidusha Lakshani, sprinter P.N. Awchithya of Verenketagoda MV, Ampara and Maris Stella College sprinters hogged limelight by establishing new records on day four of the Athletics Championship of the All Island Schools Games at the Sugathadas Stadium on Monday.

The National fencing championship organized by the National Association of Fencing Sri Lanka is to be held on the 30th and 31st of October in Rathmalana. A media conference was held today at the Olympic house Colombo to brief the media on the proceedings of the championship.

Experts stressed the need to look after latest Sri Lanka women’s marathon record holder Geethani Rajasekara in a quest to qualify country’s first women’s marathon participant for Olympics after the Sri Lanka Army athlete produced a stunning performance close to Olympic ‘B’ grade qualifying standard at the Colombo Marathon yesterday.

On a day Sri Lanka’s top notch track and field athletes concluded the Asian Games campaign without a single medal in Incheon, country’s school goers showed promise as usual with high jumper Roshan Dhammika Ranatunga of Kularatne MMV, Godakawela and middle distance runner Kupun Kushantha of Nalanda College topping a list of five meet records on day two of the National Schools Games at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Friday.

A school girl from Jaffna equaled the lowly Sri Lanka women’s pole vault national record at the Athletics Championship of the National Schools Games at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Thursday.

Norway's decision to pull out of the bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in Oslo leaves the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with only Almaty in Kazakhstan and Beijing in China to choose from when it meets next year.

Gayanthika Thushari Abeyratne and Chandrika Subashini qualified for the finals of the women’s 800m and 400m respectively as they did well in the heats of the Athletics Competition of the Asian Games in Incheon on Tuesday.

Kenya's Dennis Kimetto has broken the marathon world record in Berlin, winning the race in a time of two hours, two minutes and 57 seconds.

Six years after posting her personal best in her pet event 400m (52.36 secs) Chandrika Subashini Rasnayake is on track again aiming to do below that range hoping for a medal at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, which is her third Asian Games. Rasnayake's sub 53 second performance could secure her a silver medal, compared to her medal winning times in the previous two Asian Games.