Sports Snippets

Trinity's "Pride of 87"

CELEBRATIONS: Trinity College, Kandy "Pride of 87" will gather at the Taj Samudra Hotel on July 21 to celebrate 20 years of roaring success.

Its a week long celebration with the option of checking in to the Hotel on July 20, grand celebration on July 21 and a wide range of activities culminating in the following weekend in the familiar "where river, lake and fountains meet...... their boyhood home surroundings".

The batch will also take time off for a charity event to share time and resources with orphaned children who are unfortunate in not been afforded the same happy and comfortable childhood others enjoyed.

Meepage of Army in 2nd place

Army's R. N.Meepage climbed up to the second place displacing CR & FC's Pavithra Fernando and Army Sports Club also jumped to the second position in the Sunday Observer organised Caltex Lubricants sponsored Most Popular Ruggerite and Most Popular Rugby Team 2007 competition at the end of count number 6.

Most Popular Ruggerite 2007 1. Sumedha Malawena (CH&FC) 436. 2. R.N.Meepage (Army SC) 119. 3. Pavithra Fernando (CR&FC) 72. 4. Dilanka Wijesekera ( CH&FC) 49. 5. Sameera Silva (Kandy SC) 32.

Most Popular Rugger Team 2007 1. CH&FC 391. 2. Army SC 116. 3. Kandy SC 70. The readers prize for the Most Popular Ruggerite Competition 2007 was won by L. P. Liyanage , ' Chamikara' , Unaleeya, Katupota.

There were no winners among the readers in the Most Popular Team Competition as there were no foils of a Caltex product attached to the coupon.

Horror accident overshadows Powell's winning return

ATHLETICS: ROME, July 14, 2007 - World record holder Asafa Powell won the Rome Golden League 100m here on Friday but the meeting was overshadowed by a freak accident which left a French long jumper speared by a wayward javelin.

Powell, who missed the Paris leg of the Golden League series because of a groin injury, cruised to victory at the Olympic Stadium in 9.90sec edging out form runner Derrick Atkins of the Bahamas who was second in 10.02.

But the night will be remembered for the horror injury suffered by long jumper Salim Sdiri who was accidentally hit by a javelin thrown by Finland's Tero Pitkamaki. The 28-year-old Sdiri, a bronze medallist at the 2007 European indoor championships, collapsed to the ground before being taken to hospital. "Sdiri had a 4cm injury in his right side," said Giuseppe Fischetto, one of the medics at the scene.