{"id":53500,"date":"2017-06-07T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53500"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T21:17:02","slug":"sports-minister-wants-to-legally-prevent-sportspersons-like-susanthika-jayasinghe-from-selling-medals-won-at-international-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53500","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister Wants to Legally Prevent Sportspersons Like Susanthika Jayasinghe From Selling Medals won at International Competitions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ajith Alahakoon and Kushan Subasinghe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera told Parliament yesterday that the Sports Act would be amended to bar sportspersons from selling their medals won at international events.<\/p>\n<p>While moving a motion in respect of the Sports Act for debate, the Minister said that the winners at international games had to be prevented from selling the medals they secure, representing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that some outdated provisions of the Act needed updating, the Minister said that radical changes had to be introduced to the Act to meet the present-day needs and a committee had been appointed for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jayasekera said the new Act would ensure the independence of sports associations and help eliminate political interference in those outfits.<\/p>\n<p>The sports associations would have to manage their funds in a responsible manner, Jayasekera said<\/p>\n<p>The Sports Minister said that recommendations and advice had been sought from the International Olympic Committee as well as the National Olympic Committee on ways and means of improving the Sports Act.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton53500\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D53500&amp;text=Sports%20Minister%20Wants%20to%20Legally%20Prevent%20Sportspersons%20Like%20Susanthika%20Jayasinghe%20From%20Selling%20Medals%20won%20at...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajith Alahakoon and Kushan Subasinghe Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera told Parliament yesterday that the Sports Act would be amended to bar sportspersons from selling their medals won at international events. While moving a motion in respect of the Sports Act for debate, the Minister said that the winners at international games had to be &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sports Minister Wants to Legally Prevent Sportspersons Like Susanthika Jayasinghe From Selling Medals won at International Competitions.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53506,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions\/53506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}