The National Sports of Sri Lanka is well-known as Volley Ball. If one pose this question to a child the prompt answer would be Volley Ball.Though Volley Ball is known as our National Sport there is no legal sanction that this sport has received as our National Sports.The premise that the Volley Ball is our National Sport is therefore a palpably a myth which contains no iota of truth.
Hitherto the only report that exists on the National Sport is Vini Vitharana's Committee Report of 1991 appointed by the then Minister of Sports Nanda Mathew.The Minister appointed a Committee of intelligentsia to choose the National sport of country. The key person in appointing the said Committee was said to have been Charitha Ratwatte stronghold of the UNP who was said to have had connections of the Volley Ball Foundation. It is said that Vini Vitharana's Committee functioned under his blessings.
The Report of the said Committee stated that out of the two sports the Committee received as final recommendations namely Volley Ball and Elle ; Volley Ball is more apposite to name as our National Sports.
Were the Authorities unaware or showed a cold shoulder that this sport was not a traditional local Sports and the THE CENTRAL YMCA played a pivotal role in introducing this sport to Sri Lanka?
THE GAME VOLLEY BALL WAS INTRODUCED TO SRI LANKA ( THEN CEYLON) IN 1916 BY R.W. CAMACK , THEN THE DIRECTOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT THE COLOMBO YMCA LATER KNOWN AS CENTRAL YMCA.
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