World Olympics 2020

Aug 11, 2021 | News | 1 comment

Olympic Games is undoubtedly the most celebrated and prestigious sporting event to ever take place.

Olympics is considered as “THE sporting event” with more than 200 nations taking part in it. With over a thousand athletes competing in a variety of competitions, winning a medal is more than just a dream for an athlete.

World Olympics are held in two formats, Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, where former is considered the most famous since the participation is marked by countries all over the globe.

The Olympic Games is generally held every four years, alternating between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years in the four-year period. However, Summer Olympics which was to be held in 2020 was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sneak peek at the history of the Olympics

The creation of the games was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games which were held back in the days in Olympia, Greece. The name “Olympics” was derived from the Greek name Olympia in which the event took place.

The first version of the modern Olympics was held in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Over the course of years, especially during the 20th and 21st centuries, the Olympic movement has undergone several modifications to come up with, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Paralympics for the disabled athletes, and quite recently introduced Youth Olympics for athletes aged 14 to 18.

Sri Lanka’s success at the Olympics

Being a tropical island, Sri Lanka has never participated in the Winter Olympics. It has only taken part in the Summer Olympics, Paralympics, and Youth Olympics. Sri Lanka’s first-ever medal came in at the 1948 Olympics when Duncan White placed second in the 400 m hurdles.

It took the country more than half a century to clinch its second medal and that was at the Millennial Olympics (2000 Sydney Olympics) when Susanthika Jayasinghe placed third in the 200 m women’s event. She initially won a bronze and later was awarded the silver medal after Marion Jones was stripped off for drug usage.

Sri Lanka is yet to win a medal after the 2000 Olympics. In other words, we are on a medal hunt. Sri Lankans are yet to witness some exceptional performances from the many gifted and skilled athletes.

Sri Lanka at the Tokyo Olympics

9 athletes in total were selected to represent Sri Lanka at this year’s Tokyo Olympics representing 7 sports.

However, none of them were able to advance into the next round, shattering Sri Lanka’s hopes of a medal from the first rounds itself.

Winning an Olympic medal is definitely not easy. You need extreme talent, generous amounts of luck, and most importantly good coaching.

No matter how talented you are, it is essential one receives correct guidance and support to play to their strengths by improving the best possible technique. Though we received no medals, being an Olympian itself is quite an achievement.

Hopefully, with proper attention and priority to these talented individuals, we will be able to see them improve to aim for a medal. As the saying goes, if there’s a will, there’s a way.

On a positive note, Parami Wasanthi Maristella brought glory to Sri Lanka when she came in third in the 2000m steeplechase at the 2018 Youth Olympics held in Argentina. Her dazzling performance gave Sri Lanka its first-ever Youth Olympic medal.

Last but surely not least, a big shout-out to our very own two athletes who shone bright like diamonds at the Paralympics. Pradeep Sanjaya won the bronze in men’s 400 m T46 at London Paralympics and Dinesh Herath too won the bronze in men’s javelin throw F46 at Rio Paralympics. Sri Lanka will be competing in this year’s Paralympics, and the hopes are once again high for medals.

World Olympics 2020 ended with such glamour amidst a pandemic, but Sri Lanka does not give up hope on seeing a day our talented athletes bring glory to our country at the next Olympic games.

දිනෙන් දින අලුත් වන ඔලිම්පික්

ඔලිම්පික් යනු ලෝකයේ දැනට පවතින ප්‍රධානම තරගාවලි වලින් එකක් වන අතර මෙය වඩාත් ප්‍රේක්ෂක අවධානය දිනාගත් තරගාවලියකි.

ඔලිම්පික් ලාංචනය  නැතහොත් ඔලිම්පික් කොඩියේ ඇති වළලු පහෙන් අදහස් වන්නේ මහද්වීප පහේ එකමුතුව සහ ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලේදී ලොව පුරා ක්‍රීඩක ක්‍රීඩිකාවන් හමුවීම නියෝජනය කරයි.

ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩාවේ ආරම්භය අවුරුදු සිය දහස් ගණනක් අතීතයට දිවයයි.ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩාවට ඉතාම අභාග්‍ය කාලයක් උදාවන්නේ Theodosius I නමැති රෝම අධිරාජ්‍යාය  බලයට පත්වීමත් පසුවය.

එම පාලකයන්ගේ අදහස වුයේ ඔලිම්පික් තරග මුල් කාලයේදී සාමකාමී මුහුණු වරක් ගත්තද පසුව ඒවා ලේ පෙරාගෙන මිලෙච්ඡ ස්වභාවයට පත් වූ බවය.කෙසේ නමුත් ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩාව තහනමට ලක්ව අවුරුදු 1503ක පමණ කාලයක් තිබී ඇත.

1896දී ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල පවත් වුවත් නුතන ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩාවේ හැරවුම් ලක්ෂය ලෙස සලකනු ලබන්නේ මෙම දෙවෙනි ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලය. මෙම ක්‍රීඩා උළෙල මාස 05ක් සහ දින 14ක් පුරාවට පැවතුනි. මෙහිදී යම් යම් විශේෂ ක්‍රීඩා පැවතුන අතර යම් ක්‍රීඩා යලි කිසි දිනෙක ඔලිම්පික් වල දැකගන්නට නොලැබුණි.

මේ සදහා හොදම උදාහරණයක් වන්නේ ලංකාව තුල වඩාත් ප්‍රසිද්දම ක්‍රීඩාව වන ක්‍රිකට්ය. ක්‍රිකට් මෙම වසරේ  උළෙලේ ක්‍රීඩාවක් ලෙස  තිබුණි.

වර්තමානය වනවිට ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල ප්‍රධාන කාණ්ඩ 4ක් ඔස්සේ පැවෙත් වේ.එනම් ප්‍රධාන ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල (Summer Olympic),සීත ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල,පැරා ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල හා යෞවනයින්ගේ ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල ලෙසය.

ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඔලිම්පික්  ආගමනය සැලකු විට අප රටේ පළවෙනි ඔලිම්පික් නියෝජනය වන්නේ 1948දී ය. එහිදී ඉතිහාසය අලුතින් ලියවමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහභාගි වූ පළමු ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලේදීම රිදී පදක්කමක් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකිවිය.ඒ ඩන්කන් වයිට් මීටර් 400 දුර දිවීමේ තරගයෙනි.ඔහු එම තරග ඉසව්වේම රන් පදක්කම් ලාභියාට වඩා තත්පර 0.7ක් පමණක් පිටුපසින් සිටීමද විශේෂත්වයකි.              

ඉන්පසුව සෑම ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලක් සදහාම ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සහභාගිත්වයක් තිබුණි.ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රථම කාන්තා නියෝජනය දක්වන්නේ ඔලිම්පික් ක්‍රීඩාව තුල 1978දීය.ඒ තිලකා ධම්මිකා ජිනදාස මහත්මියයි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් ශීත ඔලිම්පික් උළෙල සදහා කිසිම දිනෙක සහභාගිත්වයක් දක්නට නොලැබුණි.

වර්ෂ 2000දී ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ සිඩ්නි වල පැවතුන ඔලිම්පික් තරගාවලියේදී සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ මහත්මිය මීටර් 200 දුර දිවීමේ තරග ඉසව්වට සහභාගි වෙමින් රිදී පදක්කමක් ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.

මේ අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඔලිම්පික් ඉතිහාසය තුල  අප ලබා ඇත්තේ පදක්කම් දෙකක් පමණි.නමුත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වැනි කුඩා දුපතක් තුලින් සෑම ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලකටම ක්‍රීඩකයින් සහභාගි වීමද අප ලබන ජයග්‍රහණයකි.

මෙවර 2021 ඔලිම්පික් උළෙලේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවෙන් ක්‍රීඩකයින් නව දෙනෙකු සහභාගී විය. මෙය අනෙකුත් වසර වලට සාපේක්ෂව ඉහල අගයකි.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය මගින් ලංකාවේ මළල ක්‍රීඩාවට මීට වඩා මුල්‍යමය හා තාක්ෂණික දැනුම ලබා දීමට ක්‍රියා කළහොත් අපටද පදක්කම් පිට පදක්කම් ලබා ගනිමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මාතාවගේ ධජය මුළු ලෝකයා ඉදිරියෙම එසවීමට වැඩි කාලයක් යෑමට මත්තෙන් හැකිවෙනවා නොඅනුමානය.   

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200 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட நாடுகள் பங்கு பெறுவதனால் இது ஒரு விளையாட்டு நிகழ்வாக கருதப்படுகிறது.

ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுகள், கோடை ஒலிம்பிக் மற்றும் குளிர்கால ஒலிம்பிக்ஸ், என இரண்டு வடிவங்களில் நடத்தப்படுகின்றன.

ஒலிம்பிக் போட்டிகள் பொதுவாக நான்கு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு ஒருமுறை நடத்தப்படும். கோடை மற்றும் குளிர்கால ஒலிம்பிக்கில்   இரண்டு வருடங்களுக்கு ஒருமுறையும் நான்கு வருட காலப்பகுதியில் மாறி மாறி நடைபெறும். இருப்பினும், கொவிட் -19 தொற்றுநோய் காரணமாக 2020 இல் நடைபெறவிருந்த கோடைகால ஒலிம்பிக் 2021 வரை ஒத்திவைக்கப்பட்டது.

ஒலிம்பிக்கின் வரலாறு பற்றிய  ஒரு கண்ணோட்டம்

“ஒலிம்பிக்ஸ்” என்ற பெயர் ஒலிம்பியா என்ற கிரேக்க பெயரிலிருந்து வந்தது.

நவீன ஒலிம்பிக் முதன் முதலாக 1896 இல் கிரேக்கத்தின் ஏதென்ஸில் நடைபெற்றது. 20 மற்றும் 21 ஆம் நூற்றாண்டுகளில், ஒலிம்பிக் போட்டியானது பல மாற்றங்களை உள்ளடக்கி, கோடைகால ஒலிம்பிக், குளிர்கால ஒலிம்பிக், ஊனமுற்ற விளையாட்டு வீரர்களுக்கான பாராலிம்பிக்ஸ் என்பன அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்பட்டன.  சமீபத்தில் 14 முதல் 18 வயதுடைய விளையாட்டு வீரர்களுக்கு இளைஞர் ஒலிம்பிக் அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்பட்டது.

ஒலிம்பிக்கில் இலங்கையின் வெற்றி

 இலங்கை குளிர்கால ஒலிம்பிக்கில் பங்கேற்கவில்லை.  கோடைகால ஒலிம்பிக், பாராலிம்பிக் மற்றும் இளைஞர் ஒலிம்பிக்கில் மட்டுமே பங்கேற்றுள்ளது. இலங்கையின் முதல் முதலில் 1948 ஆம் ஆண்டு  400 M ஹர்ட்ல்ஸ் போட்டியில் இரண்டாவது இடத்தைப் பிடித்தது.

இரண்டாவது பதக்கத்தை 2000 ஆம் ஆண்டு  சிட்னி ஒலிம்பிக்கில் 200 மீ மகளிர் போட்டியில் சுசந்திகா ஜெயசிங்க மூலம் வென்றது.

2000 ஒலிம்பிக்கிற்குப் பிறகு இலங்கை இன்னும் பதக்கம் வெல்லவில்லை.

டோக்கியோ ஒலிம்பிக்கில் இலங்கை

இந்த ஆண்டு டோக்கியோ ஒலிம்பிக்கில் இலங்கையை பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்த மொத்தம் 9 விளையாட்டு வீரர்கள் தேர்வு செய்யப்பட்டு அவர்கள் 7 விளையாட்டுகளில் பங்கேற்றனர். எனினும் அவர்களில் யாராலும் அடுத்த சுற்றில் முன்னேற முடியவில்லை, என்பதால் முதல் சுற்றுகளில் இருந்தே இலங்கை பதக்க நம்பிக்கையை தகர்த்தெறிந்தது.

English Article: Rtr. Inuri Hettiarachchi

Sinhala Article: Rtr. Himeth Sewmin

Tamil Article: Rtr. Srinath Udayachandran

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