HAMBANTOTA LOSES 2018 GAMES BID

Commonwealth Games 2018 Sri Lanka loses bid to be held in Hambantota

The dream of hosting the 2018 Commonwealth Games next year in Hambantota were shattered when at an election held yesterday at the Marrion hotel in St Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Among the 71 countries that participated in the voting Queensland’s Goal Coast who contested from Australia won convincingly by obtaining 43 votes of countries whereas Sri Lanka’s Hambantota venue could muster only 27 votes.

Thus the bid was convincingly won by Goal Coast of Queensland, Australia by a majority of 16 votes.
It is learnt that the country Malaysia started developing once they hosted Commonwealth Games in their country. This is why Sri Lanka too wanted to bid for the Commonwealth games to be hosted in Hambantota.
Ajit Nivarrd Cabral the Chairman of the bid committee and our organiser addressing a foreign press briefing had said although we did not come on top is a matter of regret. But in future Hambantota is a city which is fast developing and in its progress this is another step towards it.