Selected sports Weight Lifting, Athletic, Kabbadi and Wushu national pools training will recommence from June 1 onwards according to the director of sports, Department of Sports Development I.P. Wijeyaratne.
Wijeyaratne said the Ministry of Sports and Department of Sports Development decided to re-start the national pool trainings for the respective sports with Health Ministry guidelines. All the guidelines were sent to the respective national federations three weeks before by the Ministry of Sports.
The 10-page guideline documents were issued by the Ministry of Health, he said.
Wijeyaratne further said that due to the prevailing situation in the country, the National Games will not be held until November or December.
“We have to discuss with provincials sports directors regarding the National Sports Festival and we are planning to meet all of them from the provincial level to take a final decision,” Wijeyaratne said. “We have already informed the postponement of the National Festival to the provincial sports directors and informed them that the Games have been postponed due to this reason.” “We also need to look at things like the possibility of directors coming to Colombo. You have to come from distant places like Jaffna. However we will discuss this as soon as possible,” he said.
Wijeyaratne further stated that they have planned the provincial tournaments to a finish before July 10, but with the situation in the country no one has been able to take part.
“Due to the pandemic globally affecting all the sports events were postponed but small countries were resuming their sports activities following strict health guidelines.
Cricket, Football and Rugby national pools are also due to resume training from the first week of June onwards.
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