The first four host cities for the British Empire/Commonwealth Games were:Hamilton, Canada (1930), London, Great Britain (1934), Sydney, Australia (1938) and Auckland, New Zealand (1950).
Sydney (in 1938) was the first Australian city to host a British Empire/British Empire and Commonwealth Games/Commonwealth Games.
Click on the 'Olympic Games Host Cities' link on this page and scroll down about 3/4 of the way to find the host cities of all Olympic Games dating back to 1896.
Sydney was the first Australian city to host the Commonwealth Games. They hosted the Games in 1938.
The Commonwealth Games Federation is responsible for selecting the host cities of the Commonwealth Games and they control the sporting program.
A host city for the 2208 Olympics has not been announced. As of 2010, only the next two host cities have been announced: London will host the Games in 2012, and Rio will host the Games in 2016.
first country to host common wealth games
Seoul was the first city to host the Summer Olympic Games. In 1806.
because some countries have more major cities that could host than others
Different cities put forward proposals including why they think they should host the games, how it would benefit the host city and host country and how effective would the hosts be. Then an international olympic committee decided on London
Cities apply for the spot, then the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) takes a handful of those cities as candidates. Then from those cities the I.O.C. votes for one city to hold the Olympic Games.
The 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, were the first televised in the United States. The Olympics had been televised locally in their host cities since the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, Germany.
Australia has hosted the Summer Olympics twice ... 1956 in Melbourne and 2000 in Sydney. New Zealand have never host an Olympic Games.