Commonwealth Games (CGF) and Glasgow The Commonwealth Games announced on Tuesday that nine sports, including cricket and hockey, have been dropped from the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The Commonwealth Games 2026 will be held from July 23 to August 2, 2026 and will be hosted by Glasgow. However, only 10 games will be staged in Glasgow in 2022 compared to 19 games in the previous edition in Birmingham.
The future of the Games was threatened when the original host state of Victoria, Australia, pulled out of hosting the event last year, citing rising costs, but the Scottish government stepped in to save the event and Glasgow And the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) announced on Tuesday that the Games will be held from July 23 to August 2, 2026.
The sports that have been missed from the 2022 Games include cricket, triathlon, diving, hockey, squash, badminton and rugby sevens.
At the Commonwealth Games Para Support will once again be fully integrated and only six para sports have been included in the programme.
The schedule includes athletics and para-athletics, swimming and para-swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and para-track cycling, netball, weightlifting and Para Apart from powerlifting, boxing, judo, bowls and para bowls, there will be 3×3 basketball and 3×3 wheelchair basketball.
Around 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth countries and territories are expected to compete.
The Commonwealth Games Federation said Glasgow 2026 will provide an investment of more than £100m.
Katie Sadlier, Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Games Federation, said: ‘On behalf of the Commonwealth Games, we are delighted to officially confirm that Glasgow has been awarded the 2026 Commonwealth Games. ‘
Britain and Australia have hosted five of the past six editions of the Games but Sadlier believes a slimmed-down model would increase the potential pool of future hosts.
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He said that the 2026 event Commonwealth Games will be a bridge for
According to him: ‘Games is an important and first step in our journey to reconfigure and redefine as a truly collaborative, flexible and sustainable model for the future which is cost and environmental impact. Reduces and increases social impact. By doing so, more countries will be able to join the host race.’
Commonwealth Games Scotland chairman Iain Reid said it was not easy to decide which sports to include and which to exclude.
He told the BBC: ‘I think everyone recognizes that these events need to be held at a lower cost and with fewer sports and we would love to have competitions between all sports and all athletes but Unfortunately it is not suitable for this time frame.’
He said that in future more sports can be included in these games and its scope can also increase depending on the locations.
The CGF said public funding would not be required for the Glasgow Games as part of the costs would be covered by Australia following Victoria’s withdrawal.
Victoria withdrew after citing an estimated cost of more than six billion Australian dollars.
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years and mainly involve countries and territories that were once subject to the British Empire.
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