Sri Lanka’s sprint queen Susanthika Jayasinghe is in line for an Olympic ‘silver’ and a ‘gold’ for her performance at the World Athletic championships in Athens, Greece, seven years ago. In both cases it was Marion Jones who took the first place in the 200 metres women’s sprint event.

Would it be an overstatement if one says bungling is one of Sri Lanka’s national past times. From time immemorial we all have come across situations where we mishandle a seemingly trivial situation and let it grow into a huge national scale problem and then try to cover it up with lame excuses and mundane utterances. For example the handling of the Marvan Atapattu issue by the national selectors and other allied persons is the ideal case study for the above situation.