The first Commonwealth Games were called the British Empire Games.
British empire games
The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930.
Football has never appeared in the commonwealth games
Hamilton, Canada hosted the first Commonwealth Games in 1930.
Badminton was first played at the Commonwealth Games in 1966 at the Kingston Games.
Lila Ram and milkha singh at 1958 commonwealth games.
The British Empire Games were held in Sydney in 1938. The first to be called the Commonwealth Games was in Brisbane in 1982.
The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The Commonwealth countries are called that because they are all members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Cathy Freeman first participated at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, where at the ripe age of 16 she was a member of the victorious 4x100m relay team. With the victory, she became the first Aboriginal Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist.
The next Commonwealth Games will be held in 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Yes, they are.