LBHUW1604003P_297x210_智慧城市kv.pdf 1 16/10/21 下午3:00 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K MAKE CITIES FLOURISH? MAKE CITIES SMART! At Huawei we’re helping people to live better, by making cities work smarter. While all information and data interconnects, our information and communications technology (ICT) is able to untangle traffic, innovate teaching model, enhance electricity supply, and even make streets safer. Because we understand that by working together, we can make life better for everyone. Now, that’s smart. For more information, please visit e.huawei.com LEADING ICT IN SMART CITY Good Sport Good Sport CONTENTS Official Publication of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka September 2018 07 FOREWORD Why GOOD SPORT? It resonates with sportsmanship says Suresh Subramaniam 08 FAST FACTS Eye-opening figures which at a glance gives you the big picture at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang. Find out how much these Games cost, or did you know that there are 11 million residents in Jakarta. ELECTED OFFICIALS President: Suresh Subramaniam Secretary General: Maxwell De Silva FOREWORD 11 GROUND ZERO Immediate Past President: Sri Lanka’s biggest squad to the Asian Games had few reasons to celebrate Hemasiri Fernando writes ALVIN SALLAY. Read the report card on every athlete as well as Vice-Presidents: Joseph Kenny SURESH SUBRAMANIAM discover how the future is likely to shape up as we join hands with Asian Asanga Seneviratne sporting superpower China. Maj-General (retd) Palitha Fernando President, National Olympic Committee Senior DIG (retd) Sumith Edirisinghe 17 FORTY SPORTS Treasurer: Senaka Ranasinghe A brief look at the extensive range of sports that bring glamour and Assistant Treasurer: excitement to the multi-sport Asian Games. They range from aquatics to Nishantha Jayasinghe t has been 81 years since the an environment which will make it more archery, badminton to baseball, equestrian, jet ski, bridge, boxing, fencing, Assistant Secretary: through these pages will be entertained as and exotic sports such as kabaddi and Sepak Takraw. Chandana Liyanage National Olympic Committee of favourable for athletes to achieve their well as learn about sports which are just Members: Chanaka Hashantha Sri Lanka was formed. In these dreams. not cricket. Fazil Hussain, Ajith Thamel eightI decades there have been many This magazine is a key part of the new We have taken a look at all 40 sports at 35 GREAT HAUL OF CHINA proud sporting moments the country has executive committee’s strategy. It has a these Games. We give readers a quick GOOD SPORT Once again China finished top of the medal standings with 132 gold savoured. Of course, most people would twin-pronged goal: to raise the profile of digest of everything from archery to medals in an overall total of 289. Yet according to our Special Correspon- Editor-in-Chief: Alvin Sallay straight away point to the 1996 World all sports in the country and to call for the wrestling. Did you know that President dent, more needs to be done, especially in track and field and in the pool. [email protected] Cup triumph in cricket as our proudest support of the corporate community for Putin’s favourite martial art is Sambo, a Contributors: Jeremy Walker, Michael Church moment, simply because cricket is widely without them sports will find it hard to medal sport at these games, or that jet skis recognised as the most popular sport in make the breakthrough. are only not for the Baywatch set? IMAGES 39 DAILY DIARY this island. Why GOOD SPORT? It is a name which We hope these pages will be informative Cover image: Thusith Wijedoru A sunny-side up view on what took place during the 16 days of the While giving cricket its due recognition, we resonates with sportsmanship, the heart and give you an idea of what the Asian Inside: OCA/INASGOC, Thusith Wijedoru Games which brought a nation together from ALVIN SALLAY who also must also acknowledge the fact that other and soul of what it is all about. When you Anjana Kalhara Games is all about. Our diary takes a looks at life outside the showpiece. sports have also been an important part of call someone a good sport, you are being not-too-serious look at the 16 days of GRAPHICS/DESIGN our fabric. From Duncan White, the first complimentary. It means being able to face these Games. Come with us on a journey 73 ANYONE FOR THE 2030 ASIAN GAMES? Strategic Alliance (Pvt) Limited person to win an Olympic medal for Sri life with a smile on your face. through Jakarta. Lanka, to Susanthika Jayasinghe, the first GOOD SPORT is also about building a GOOD SPORT will come out every three The future of these Games is bright according to JEREMY WALKER MARKETING woman to reach the Olympic podium, we brand for Sri Lanka sports. Our athletes months. It will also be updated online in- after the historic co-hosting of the 18th Asian Games by Jakarta and Strategic Alliance (Pvt) Limited have had our moments to cherish. must go out and compete proudly. Winning Palembang. between publications. The aim is to raise Regrettably, these have been rare flashes of matters, and if you do so, accept your PRINTING sports, other than cricket, to a new level. national joy. We have had more success at laurels with humility and don’t rub the Softwave Printing and Packaging (Pvt) Ltd. In the past eight decades Sri Lanka has the Asian Games, Commonwealth Games losers face into the dust. Be a good sport. If produced only two Olympic medalists. 93 ASIA LAGGING BEHIND IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME CONTACTS and South Asian Games, all of which you lose, accept defeat graciously and not Let’s hope in the next eight years, we will Asian giants Japan and South Korea lead the way but more needs to be Please send your feedback to: come under the umbrella of the National with excuses. Be a good sport. be able to double that number and raise done in football in the world’s most populous region if it is to catch up to GOOD SPORT, Olympic House, 100/9F, Olympic Committee, but ultimately, This will be our mantra going forward. the profile of sport in this country. The first the rest of the world says MICHAEL CHURCH. Independence Avenue, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka winning at the Olympic level is the gold Our athletes must be able to hold their step has been taken today, right here. It is Email: [email protected] standard. heads up high, whatever the outcome is. If also the first step since the launch of the 120 TEAM SRI LANKA Tel: +94 11 2684420/21/22/23 To consistently perform at the Olympics, we have given a 100 per cent, training and Rs. 50 million Prime Minister’s Sports Our men and women. a lot of hard work and dedication is performance, then we must be proud of Fund. Sports is moving in the right GOOD SPORT is published by the National needed, not only from the athlete but our efforts. This will become the template direction. Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka. The articles also the administrator, those officials who for all athletes representing Sri Lanka. 126 THE LAST SHOT published do not necessarily reflect the run sport, mostly giving his or her time Our first edition is a special one as it When can Sri Lanka return to its glory days asks ALVIN SALLAY? opinions of the National Olympic Committee voluntarily. focuses solely on the 2018 Asian Games of Sri Lanka. No articles may be reproduced Since being elected to the position of recently concluded in Jakarta and without the permission of the NOC Media and president of the National Olympic Palembang. We bring stories of our own Communications Department. Committee earlier this year, and speaking athletes, yet we have not forgotten the on behalf of the NOC, I pledge to usher in bigger picture. We hope readers browsing 6 September September 7 the number of apartment towers that comprise the Athletes Village in 1962 Kemayoran, Central 10 Jakarta. There will be a the last time Jakarta hosted the total of 7,424 apartments, Asian Games. each apartment measuring 36 square metres and featuring 462 two bedrooms, a living the number of events in the room, kitchen and 40 disciplines, making it the bathroom. It was built at 10,000 second-largest programme a cost of US$267 million. in Asian Games history. the last time Jakarta hosted the Only the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. Games was bigger: 476 events in 42 sports. US$2.4 BILLION the animal mascots at the Games. They are Bhin Bhin, the bird Indonesia’s National Development 03 of paradise, Kaka, Planning Agency has stated this the single-horned amount has been spent on infrastruc- Javan rhinoceros, and ture development surrounding the the number of Atung, the Bawean Asian Games. This includes a new countries (all) at deer. The first Asian light rail transit for the city of Palem- the Asian Games. Games to introduce a North Korea 11,000 bang (estimated at US$676 million) mascot was 1982 New as well as the extension of the LRT and South Korea Delhi, when Appu the the number of athletes and officials at in Jakarta, and the renovation of the will compete as elephant was chosen. the number of a unified team the Games. 76,000-capacity main stadium (Gelora 1951 times Bangkok 45 in basketball, Bung Karno) in Jakarta where the the capital city opening ceremony and the athletic dragon boat racing and rowing.