Gold Coast to host 2018 Commonwealth Games

MELBOURNE (Nov 12, 2011): The 2018 Commonwealth Games will be held at the Gold Coast in Queensland.

The Gold Coast won their bid over Sri Lanka's Hambantota city after a ballot at the general assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) in the Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis.

The 70 CGF delegates voted 43 to 27 in favour of the Coast.

Queensland's tourist strip will now become the fifth Australian city to host the Games after Sydney (1938), Perth (1962), Brisbane (1982) and Melbourne (2006).

Little-known Hambantota, which is rebuilding after being devastated by the 2004 Asian tsunami, had made a humble and dignified pitch to the CGF to help them in their massive regeneration programme.

Source: The Sun Daily

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