Hambantota, the Candidate City for Commonwealth Games in 2018

Boxing

Boxing is one of the most strenuous sports on the Games programme. It calls for profound discipline, skill and dedication, backed by rigorous physical and mental commitment. Boxing has featured in every Games since 1930. With particular attention to amateur boxing, head-guards are worn by competitors in the Commonwealth Games.


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    Hong Kong- based a Shangri-La hotel which has already made the arrangements for a huge investment of a 7- Star hotel complex in the heart of Sri Lanka`s commercial capital has looked at two more sites including one near a ` wild life reserve in southern Sri Lanka to site its second proposed hotel.

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  • Hambantota 2018 Commonwealth Games : Impressions of a foreign friend

    With regard to Hambantota 2018 legacy plan, considering all what has been carried out so far and what will certainly be done in the months ahead, we selected seven letters to summarize implication and motivation of Sri Lankan authorities and Hambantota 2018 bid committee. Those seven letters are P.R.A.C.H.A.L. seven letters like the seven years ahead the d date. Those letters, according to us, represent Hambantota 2018 legacy plan and Sri Lankans’ motivation to host 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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