Sri Lanka, July 18 -- We are only five days away from the launch of the world's most spectacular sporting event - the Olympic Games, the XXX11 edition of the summer Olympic Games, postponed exactly by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic that will finally start in the Japanese capital of Tokyo on Friday, July 23.

Over 11,200 athletes drawn across 206 nations from all corners of the globe will vie for honours for supremacy during the 16-day competition, now in its 125th year. All in all, there are 339 gold, silver and bronze medals each to be decided in 33 sports and 50 disciplines.

Exactly 21 years after sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe bagged the women's 200m silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Sri Lanka is still in search of a...