Tuesday, October 12, 2010

2010 Common Wealth Games Process

For show casing the sports talent, the members of the common wealth nations will participate in Common Wealth Games event. Till now, 18 common wealth games were conducted and in the year 2006, this sport was conducted at Melbourne of Australia. Along with many olympic sports, lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball are also played in Common Wealth Games.

The Common Wealth Games Federation has approved 31 sports along with 7 para sports. Coming to the 2010 Common Wealth Games 2010, this is the nineteenth common wealth game which were conducted till date. When we count after changing the events name to Common Wealth Games, it is the ninth one.


Every year a particular country will host the event. In the year 2010, Delhi of India is the host city for this event. These are scheduled to be held from 3 October to 14 October, 2010. The main stadium which holds the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony is the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.


When compared to the budget of the year 2006 Melbourne games, the budget for the 2010 games is more and is around US $1.6 billion.


Different sports will be conducted at different stadiums. 17 Different disciplined games will be played in this common wealth games with about 72 nations participating in this event. Some of the different sports which will be performed in this event are Aquatics, Archery, Athletics, Badminton etc. Apart from the Common wealth games which are yet to be launched, many sports events were also launched previously in Delhi. Even the chances of hosting the next Summer Olympics will be increasing if the common wealth games are successful in Delhi.

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