In his bid to find athletes suited to participate in the NYCM, Stewart will travel extensively to places like Trincomalee and Jaffna, he will also work with the inmates of the blind school in Ratmalana. The visually impaired runners will run with a guide who will keep up with their speed. The exercise improves the chance of a successful eye operation, because fitness means you have a greater response to surgery. Achilles is a worldwide organization that encourages people with all kinds of disabilities to participate in running with the general public. Achilles includes people with all kinds of disabilities, such as visual impairment, stroke, cerebral palsy, paraplegia, arthritis, amputation, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, cancer, traumatic head injury and many others.
Runners participate with crutches, people in wheelchairs, on prostheses and without aids.
There could have been no better example of how gloriously uncertain the outcome of cricket than the climax of the club cricket season. The Singhalese Sports Club stood proudly at the top of the points table with Tamil Union following close on their heel. The talking point was which of these two teams would clinch the championship. Both clubs had just completed one hundred years in exsistence. To this end it would have been a fitting result should one of them have emerged on top.