There are a total of 31 sports which are approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation. They are categorised into three types. Core sports must be included on each programme. A number of optional sports may be picked by the host nation, which may include some team sports such as Basketball. Recognised sports are sports which have been approved by the CGF but which are deemed to need expansion; host nations may not pick these sports for their programme until the CGF's requirements are fulfilled Two new optional sports are included in the 2010 games, tennis & Archery. Archery has been included once before in 1982 while tennis has never been included
71 commonwealth teams are participating in 2010 commonwealth games.
The 2010 Commonwealth games are the 19th commonwealth games.
There were 71 nations that participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
There are 260 events in 17 disciplines in the 2010 commonwealth games.
there are 72 countries participating in the 2010 commonwealth games.
71 Commonwealth nations participated in 2010 commonwealth games.
6081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
272 events were held at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
6081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
There are 260 events in 17 disciplines in the 2010 commonwealth games.
71 countries are competing in 2010 commonwealth games.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, there were 272 events from 21 different sports.