Channaka in media panel
A Sri Lankan sports journalist received international recognition last week, when he was invited by the prestigious Laureus World Sports Academy, to be part of an elite Media Selection Panel for this year’s Laureus World Sports Awards.

Channaka de Silva, Sports Editor of the “Daily Mirror” was officially invited by the Academy’s chairman and legendary athlete Edwin C. Moses to join the panel which annually picks outstanding athletes for Laureus World Sports Award in the categories of World Sportsman of the Year, World Team of the Year, World Newcomer of the Year and World Comeback of the Year.

The invited panel of sports journalists nominate candidates across all sports disciplines and all continents. They will be joined in the selection process by 42 of the greatest all-time sporting legends, who are members of the Academy. The winners of the 2006 Laureus World Sports Awards will be announced on May 22 in Barcelona, Spain.

De Silva, a BA honours graduate of the University of Sri Lanka has been a sports journalist for 16 years and coveted the last three athletics world athletics championships in Edmonton (2001), Paris (2003) and Helsinki (2005).

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