The Commonwealth Video games
The 2026 Commonwealth Video games happen in Scotland (primarily in Glasgow) from July 23 to August 2. There can be greater than 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth nations and territories who will compete at Glasgow 2026 throughout 215 medal occasions in 16 sports activities – 10 able-bodied and 6 built-in para sports activities. The ten sports activities are Athletics, basketball, bowls, boxing, biking, gymnastics, Judo, netball, swimming and weightlifting. It will likely be the competitors’s smallest sports activities program since 1994.
Based in 1930 because the British Empire Video games, the way forward for the occasion has been unsure in recent times. The 2018 Video games in Gold Coast, Australia have been glorious. The 2022 Video games have been scheduled for Durban, South Africa, however Durban canceled, leaving Birmingham to choose up the items at quick discover. Melbourne was to host in 2026 however pulled out due to the price. Gold Coast’s provide to step in was vetoed by the Australian authorities – vetoed within the sense that they instructed Gold Coast that no federal funds have been out there. Glasgow stepped in with a suggestion of scaled-down video games. CWG 2026, nevertheless, will function the biggest variety of para sport occasions within the competitors’s historical past, with 47 medal occasions scheduled throughout six built-in sports activities.
So far as Athletics goes, Glasgow internet hosting in 2014 used Hampden Park, the nationwide soccer/soccer stadium, spending months placing in a monitor in a 50,000-capacity stadium. This yr athletics can be in Scotstoun, an 11,000-capacity stadium. I’m penning this on the day the video games begin, when it’s reported that 500,000 tickets stay unsold.
The monitor and area program, lasting six days with lengthy morning and night classes, begins on Monday 27 July.
