Sri Lanka, Jan. 5 -- What is so special about 2020? For once, it is a leap year that adds one extra day to our calendar. And such a combination of numbers will not appear until 2121, when only a very few us will be alive. It is literally a once in a lifetime year.

A leap year holds one other attraction - the Summer Olympics, which will be held from July 24 to August 9 in Tokyo, which joins a select list of cities that would host the Olympics for the second time after 1964.

Held under the themes, Discover Tomorrow and the usual "Faster, Higher, Stronger", more than 11,000 athletes representing more than 200 countries including Sri Lanka and 50 disciplines will flock to the Japanese capital.

The Paralympics will begin immediately afterwa...