Lankan athletes overcome fever and detractors in record medals show

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sri Lanka Indunil Herath wins the Gold medal in the 800 metres at the South Asian Games in Katmandu, Nepal yesterday (AFP) Despite facing
many obstacles that included fever outbreaks and mental discouragements at the hands of some officials, Sri Lanka track and field athletes
rewrote history by winning the highest number of Gold medals, 15 in all, at the South Asian Games outside Sri Lanka here in Nepal
yesterday.