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| Sunday, 3 November 2002 |
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Forty teams to battle-it-out for supremacy by PELHAM JURIANSZ Forty teams, comprising 240 tough, young and vigorous looking individuals gathered at the Trans Asia Hotel on Friday to be briefed on the course they are to take to participate in the preliminaries and then the semi-finals and finals of the "KIT" survival Challenge beginning on November 9 and finishing on December 15. Major Gemunu Kulatunga outlined the course and also some of the objectives of having such a Challenge. "It is in order to get close to nature and all the activities will be called by Veddha names" he said. The Triathlon will start at the Piliyandala grounds and will consist of a cross country run and then mountain biking, and finally Kayaking where the competitors will be required to row to the Eco site at Bolgoda Lake. Most of the activities will be water based. The preliminaries will be held on November 9, 10 and 16 and 17, and after the best four teams have been selected from each day, sixteen of the forty will enter the semis on November 23 and 30 and the last four will enter the grand final from December 12-15. The preliminaries will be water based and held at Bolgoda and then the semis will be forest-based and at Kitulgala and the finals a survival type testing at Ella. Jude de Silva, addressing the safety aspects of the Challenge said that the safety auditors involved were trained overseas. "This is an adventure" he said "and every adventure has a certain element of risk. If you follow instructions and are not over confident then the risk factor is less. Without giving to many details it is the intention of Dialog GSM the principal sponsors and others like Minds Lanka who have done the creative side of things to come up with a Challenge worthy of the 240 participants. |
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