The gold-coated, gorgeous-looking – The Webb Ellis – Rugby crown arrived in the island and will be flying off to France, the hosts for this year's World Cup, in five-days' time.
It's for the first time in the history of the World Cup, the trophy stopped over in the island, in its selected-country’s stop over.
The pictorial shows, scenes captured and the buzz it created when it was on display at Cinnamon Lakeside, where it spent a few hours, on Saturday morning.
Feb 18 - Race Course Grounds - 4-8 p.m.
Feb 19 - CR and FC grounds - 11-3 p.m.
Feb 22 - Kandy Sports Club, Kandy - 10-2 p.m.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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