Sports is human life in microcosm

Sports are essential and a necessity for everybody. Physical exercise keeps the body fit and trim, thus ensuring healthy eating habits. If there are no games for children in school, they tend to get weary and bored of school routine, and studies become a drag. The love of sports developed in children will remain with them when they get older. Sport keeps people’s body in an excellent shape. 

There is no hidden fact that sports are valuable in the older ages as it helps in strengthening and toning the muscles and bones in the body and lets you age gracefully. Sports also beat good qualities in us. Involving oneself in competitive sports will encourage healthy competition. Taking up captainship in team games will inculcate leadership qualities as well as the team spirit.

“All study and no play make Jack a dull boy” Most of the students are similar to the proverb which I mentioned here before. You may feel that, if we spend your time in playing, when should we study? Here is a solution … J Study in the morning as the mind is fresh. After you return home from school, play for about one or two hours as the mind is tired. Then you can study again. Researcher showed that students partaking in sports were having better academic performance.

When playing Cricket, hockey; it teaches the players how to work in groups while building the team spirit and relationships with co-workers. They know how to act in victory and defeat in the life while facing to the challenges. Sports make people mentally strong. Success and failure are both parts of sports as well as in the life. When they are involved in sports, their physical energies are used up in a constructive way.

Teenage is such an vulnerable age, if youngsters are given free time they might get involved in wrong activities. Thus, the youngsters can get involve in sport activities.  Regularly indulging in sports helps in keeping the resistant system strong and prevents any kind of disease occurring. It also increases the desire for food of the person. Thus, sports promote good health. When a person do extremely well in a particular sports, he becomes very self confident. Sports inculcate discipline, dedication and responsibility which is able to apply in other areas of life as well. 

"Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own." The obesity graph for children and adults has been growing drastically since the past few years, which applies for an increase in school sports. Parents are responsible to develop an interest and understanding of the importance of games for their kids. Outdoor games are leisure and they ensure that children are exposed to fresh air and exercise, which they might not get at home. These games not only give physical education but they instill educational and social values in children. The children develop a skill of eye and limbs, and they learn to coordinate with the time as well.

Sports help to build a healthy country full of healthy community.  “Health is wealth” means that those who have understood its importance will try to keep themselves fit. Apart from a balanced diet, sports are necessary to maintain our health.

15 Asian Junior Athletic Championship

The 15th Asian Junior Athletic Championship was successfully completed at the Sugathadasa Stadium on 12^th June 2012 evening.  The Championship was started on the 9th of this months and athletes from 34 countries participated. China emerged champions by securing a tally of 16 medals including 10 gold, 2 silver and one bronze. Six new meet records were also set up at this event including an Asian Junior record.

On the final day yesterday, Sri Lankan athletes won the silver medal from the 400 meter relay event. 

Given below is the medals table of the event.

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
China	15	5	3	23
Chinese Taipei	6	3	6	15
India	4	4	5	13
Thailand	4	2	2	8
Qatar	4	1	1	6
Japan	3	13	6	22
Sri Lanka	2	2	2	6
Iran	2	1	4	7
Kazkhastan	1	4	3	8
Saudi Arabia	1	3	2	6
Korea	1	2	2	5
Vietnam	1	-	1	2
Malaysia	-	1	2	3
Kuwait	-	1	1	2
DPR Korea	-	1	1	2
Indonesia	-	1	-	1
Hong Kong	-	-	2	2
Singapore	-	-	2	2

Sri Lanka's women's relay team after winning the Silver medal in the women's 4x400 relay finals at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Sri Lankan players; Shiwanthi Kumari Ratnayake and R A Dulaj Madusanka quenched the thirst of local fans by winning the gold medals for Sri Lanka respectively. Ratnayake became the First Lankan Athlete to win a Gold Medal at the 15th edition of the games. She brought honor when she won the women’s 400 meters, clocking 55.91 seconds, ahead of India’s Priyanka Mondal who finished the event in 56.01 seconds.

Madusanka bagged his gold medal when he finished the event in 47.36 seconds to secure the second gold medal for Sri Lanka. He was stable since the start and seemed packed with full strength in the final 100 meters. Madusanka was qualified for the World Junior Athletics Championship in Barcelona after clocking 47:75 seconds in Saturday’s heat. Madushanka never slowed down until he crossed the finish line.

Meanwhile Nimesha Siriwardena had to satisfy with the silver medal although she cleared 1.79 metres, the equal height to gold medalist Wu Meng- Chia of Chinese Taipei. China’s Liu Xiao Yun won the bronze medal clearing a height of 1.76 metres.

  

The brief information about Scores of the Junior Athletics Championship 2012

Men’s 400 metres final

1. R A Dulaj Madusanka ( Sri Lanka ) 47.36 seocnds

2. Kimura Kazushi ( Japan ) 47.53 seconds

3. Kaabi Bandar Atiyah ( Kazakhstan ) 47.73 seconds

Women’s 400 metres final

1. R M S K Ratnayake ( Sri Lanka ) 55.91 seconds

2. Mondal Priyanka ( India ) 55.01 seconds

3. Andreyeva Olga ( Kazakhastan ) 56.03 seconds

Women’s high jump

1. Wu Meng Chia ( Chinese Taipei ) 1.79 metres

2. H M Nimesha Siriwardane ( Sri Lanka ) 1.79 metres

3. Liu Xiao Yun ( China ) 1.76 metres