Sri Lanka fails to host sian Junior Athletics Championship; bid to host the 2017 Asian Youth Games

Asian Athletics Association cancelled 15th Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2012 that was scheduled to be held from June 9 to 12 in Sugathadasa National Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka due to the incompletion of Sugathadasa Stadium where the events were to be held.

While the country fails to host the Asian Junior Athletics Championship, Sri Lanka Olympic Committee is planning to place a bid to host the 2017 Asian Youth Games in Hambantota at the meeting of the Asian Olympic Committee to be held in Kuwait on May 24

Sri Lanka is likely to win the rights to host the games as no other bids have materialized yet, according to Colombo Page.

Sri Lanka also bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Hambantota but lost to Gold Coast, Australia.

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