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Sri Lankan badminton champion Niluka Karunaratne heads to England next week to cap his Commonwealth Games career where it began - a swansong almost derailed by his bankrupt country’s bruising economic crisis. Competition organisers and Sri Lanka’s cricket board are funding the island nation’s largest-ever Games contingent, with 114 athletes flying to Birmingham in the coming days alongside coaches and support staff. Local sports federations have been bled dry by Sri Lanka’s financial crash, leaving athletes in doubt in recent weeks over whether they would be able to compete at all. “Sport has been our lives, it would have been a big, big disappointment,” said Karunaratne, a three-time Olymp

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