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Fact Crescendo Sri LankaSports

FACT CHECK: අපහාස නොකර ඉන්න බැරි නම් මැච් නොබල ඉන්න – කුසල් ජනිත් පැවසුවාද?

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerns a purported statement by Sri Lankan captain Kusal Janith Perera after the team’s T20 series against England: that fans who could not stop insulting the players should stop watching matches. The review says the social-media post attributed the words to a media conference on the 28th, after Sri Lanka’s third and final T20 defeat. It reports that the post circulated widely, and that the investigation examined whether Perera had actually made the quoted remark: “සමාජ මාධ්‍ය සටහන් : Do you නම් ෆේස්බුක් පිටුවක සඳහන් කර තිබුණේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ නායක කුසල් ජනිත් පෙරේරා විසින් ඊයේ (28) පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී පහත අදහස් දැක්වූ බවක්.” The review describes two checks: comparing reports by mainstream media about the conference and examining the conference itself. It says the reports covered Perera apologizing to supporters, but none reported the alleged demand that fans stop watching. It also says the review watched the full media-conference video and did not find the claimed statement: “එම සාකච්ඡාවේ දී කුසල් ජනිත් විසින් ක්‍රීඩා ලෝලීන් ගෙන් සමාව ඇයද සිටි අවස්තාව පිළිබඳ ප්‍රධාන ධාරාවේ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තා කර තිබුණා. නමුත් කිසිඳු පුවතක ඉහත සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ දැක්වෙන ආකරයේ ප්‍රකාශයක් කුසල් විසින් සිදුකර තිබු බවක් දක්වා තිබුනේ නැහැ.” Instead, the review describes Perera as acknowledging supporters’ disappointment, apologizing as captain, and asking them to continue supporting the team. It points readers to the relevant section of the full conference video, from 17:07, and concludes that he apologized but did not make the circulated statement: “මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පළ වූ කොටස සම්පූර්ණ වීඩියෝවේ 17.07 වන විනාඩියේ සිට.” “කුසල් ජනිත් එම මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාවේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රිකට් ලෝලීන්ගෙන් සමාව ඉල්ලා සිටියා. එහෙත් අපහාස නොකර ඉන්න බැරි නම් මැච් නොබල ඉන්න යනුවෙන් ඔහු සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ එල්ලවන අපහාසාත්මක සහ උපහාසාත්මක සටහන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්‍රකාශයක් සිදුකර තිබුනේ නැහැ”

FactcrescendoSports

டோக்கியோ ஒலிம்பிக்கில் தங்கம் வென்றாரா பிரியா மாலிக்?

Publisher’s rating: Partly False

The review examines a social-media claim that Priya Malik won a wrestling gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. It says a Facebook post dated 25 July 2021 described her competing for India in the 73-kilogram category against a Belarusian wrestler and winning 5–0. The investigation distinguishes that Olympic claim from a different competition in which Malik did win gold. To check the Olympic claim, the reviewers say they examined the Tokyo Olympics medal table and confirmed that, as of 28 July 2021, India had won only one medal, a silver. They also report finding that Malik’s gold came at the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championship, and say they located a post about this on the Indian government’s official Twitter account. The excerpt does not reproduce that post, so its specific contents cannot be independently assessed from the supplied text. The review’s conclusion is that the claim that Malik won gold at the Tokyo Olympics was false: the gold attributed to her belonged to the World Cadet Wrestling Championship, not the Olympics. This distinction explains how a genuine report of her gold medal could be wrongly connected to Tokyo.