Commonwealth Games: Gold Coast named hosts for 2018

GOLD COAST: Australia was celebrating after Queensland’s Gold Coast was chosen to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games over Sri Lanka’s Hambantota. Thousands of people gathered at Gold Coast’s Broadwater Parklands erupted in jubilation as the announcement was shown live from the Commonwealth Games Federation’s (CGF) General Assembly in the Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis. “My sincere congratulations to Gold Coast – theirs was a fantastic bid and they are a very, very worthy winner,” said CGF President Michael Fennell after the 70 nations and territories in attendance voted 43 to 27 for the city.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13^th, 2011.