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This is the first time India is hosting Commonwealth games.
India hosted its first-ever Commonwealth Games, when it won the right to host the Games in Delhi.
There wasn't a Commonwealth Games in 2009 but in 2010 India hosted it's first Games in Delhi.
India won its first Commonwealth Games medal (a silver) in Hockey at the 2010 Delhi Games, going down to Australia in a thrashing, 8-0.
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India first participated in the Commonwealth Games at the 1934 London Games.
Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang were the first Indian athletes to win India's first Gold Medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, when both men won the Men's 10m Air Rifle (pairs) at the CRPF Campus.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games are the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, and the ninth to be held under that name. The Games are scheduled to be held in Delhi, India between 3 October and 14 October 2010. The games will be the largest multi-sport event conducted to date in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. It will also be the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India and the second time the event has been held in Asia (after 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
No,basket ball is not played in the commonwealth games except it was first included in Melbourne. But not this time in delhi.
India participated in the second Commonwealth Games held in 1934. Rashid Anwar won the Bronze medal in Welterweight Wrestling, India's first ever Commonwealth Games medal
The Commonwealth Youth Games are a small-scale version of the Commonwealth Games, designed for children and young people. The inaugural Commonwealth Youth Games were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2000, and the second in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, in 2004. The third Games took place in Pune, India, in 2008, and were viewed in part as a test event for the 2010 main Commonwealth Games. The fourth Games are scheduled to take place in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 2011. From 2011 onwards the Games will revert to a four-yearly cycle. The hosting of the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games has been awarded to Apia, Samoa. Wrexham in Wales has so far expressed an interest in hosting the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Games
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