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Article: Sri Lanka sets the pace.(IFBB REPORT)
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- April 1, 2005
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Not every bodybuilding contest can boast the direct support of the host country's prime minister, but for Sri Lanka, the usual rules don't apply. Just four months before a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed some 162,000 people in the region, Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakshe had much to celebrate when the fifth annual South Asian Bodybuilding Championship took place in his nation's capital city Colombo. In a message to fans, contest participants and organizers of the event, Rajapakshe referred to "vast improvement" in the quality of bodybuilding in Sri Lanka over the past several years and, perhaps presaging the future, underscored the importance of the ...