Cooray leaves to Kenya on 25th

Double Olympian Marathoner Anuradha Indrajith Cooray will leave to Kenya on 25th to start his training targeting the next IAAF World Championship which will be held in two months time in Beijing.
Cooray who lives in London and works in a bakery to take care of his family, made continuous requests to all relevant authorities asking for grants for his training in Kenya, which has fallen on deaf ears. Cooray has lost hope and said he will somehow find the finances as his mother country doesn’t take care of their athletes. Cooray is one of the two in the country who has already qualified for the next Olympic Games in Rio.
The other marathoner who will represent Sri Lanka in the Olympics as well as IAAF World Championship is Geethani Rajasekera, who has already begun her training in Haputale last month, as she too has had enough of begging from authorities, as it seems the heads of those authorities don’t have brains to understand their priorities.
Meanwhile, two athletes, shuttler Niluka Karunaratne and 400m runner Chandrika Rasnayake who have been receiving 1500 USD and 1000 USD each per month as the country’s Olympic Scholars faced heavy defeats in their most recent championships.
Karunaratne was beaten in his first match in the Yonex Sunrise International Challenge Badminton Tournament held in Colombo, while Rasnayake clocked a disappointing 54.24 seconds and finished fifth in the 400m of the Asian Championship, proving that both of them are not good enough to receive such a scholarship leaving out deserving ones like Cooray and Rajasekara.