Commonwealth Games

Twenty-one island nations are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. Many of those consist of more than one island, and many other members also include islands, although they are not considered to be island nations.

Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman, OAM (known as Cathy Freeman) (born 16 February 1973) is an Australian sprinter. She became the Olympic champion for 400 m in the 2000 Sydney games, at which she lit the Olympic Flame. Freeman was born in Slade Point, Mackay, Queensland, where the local athletics track is named after her. Cathy won her first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the 4x100m team in Auckland in 1990. She followed this up with two individual golds (200m & 400m) in 1994 in Victoria along with a silver in the 4x100m. Her final Commonwealth medal came in 2002 in Manchester where she won gold in the 4x400m

There have been numerous name changes of countries within the Commonwealth, the member states that have ceased to be part of the British Commonwealth are:

* Irish Free State (Ireland) - left in 1949 * Malaya - joined Malaysia in 1963 * Newfoundland - joined Canada in 1949 * Tanganyika - merged to become Tanzania in 1964 * Zimbabwe - left in 2003

All of these states competed in the commonwealth games prior to their dispersement, Zanzibar who merged with Tanganika also ceased to be a commonwealth member in 1964 however they have never competed in the commonwealth games.

In addition Fiji are currently suspended from the British Commonwealth following their coup in 2006, they are currently down to compete in the 2010 games however this may change.

Clyde was the mascot for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He is a thistle.

The 19th Commonwealth Games were held in Delhi in 2010.

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The Commonwealth Games promote Humanity, Equality and Destiny.

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Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games 4 times. Sydney hosted in 1938, Perth in 1962, Brisbane in 1982 and Melbourne in 2006.

Brisbane hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1986. The Australian state will once again host the Games in 2018, when the Gold Coast gets their turn.

Only members of the Commonwealth of Nations can participate in the Commonwealth Games. South Africa is a member of the Commonwealth. France and Germany are not.

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Many sport games are interesting and joyful but i like cricket the most.Cricket is as same to the players as songs to the singers and music to the musician. Cricket match is always played between two teams.it has three forms till now.One Day Cricket match , Test or five day cricket match and T20 Cricket match.

One day cricket match consists of 100 overs , Test Cricket consists of 450 overs at the maximum and twenty twenty cricket has 40 overs in a match.

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It's not just the Olympics, they compete as Great Britain in most international team events. For the Six Nations, it was originally the Home Championship for the four countries of Great Britain and Ireland, before they admitted France and Italy.

Cricket is seen as almost exclusively English (Scotland of course competed at the last World Cup), football is down to the Home Nations (inventors of football) having four votes at the FIFA Congress. Most of the associations refuse to join together, partly fearing they'll lose their votes, and partly fearing they won't have any players good enough for a unified team.

And as for the Commonwealth Games, I guess it's more of a privilege for the former owners of the Empire to field as many teams as they can (as well as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark also compete).

(As to the Olympics, it's officially Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as Great Britain is the main island holding England, Scotland and Wales.)

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George V was the British monarch on the throne when the inaugural British Empire Games were held in 1930.

Ghana's first medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games occurred in the Women's 4x100m relay when Rosina Amenebede, Elizabeth Amolofo, Beatrice Gyaman and Janet Amponsah came home in second.

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There are several nations whose full name includes the word Commonwealth. These include the Commonwealth of Australia, the Commonwealth of Dominica, and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

In addition, there are two multinational organizations called Commonwealths. They are the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly called the British Commonwealth) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (made up of Russia and some of the former Soviet Republics.

The Shooting Silver Medal winners at the 20th Commonwealth Games were:

Men

10 meter air pistol: Prakash Nanjappa (India)

10 meter air rifle: Abdullah Baki (Bangladesh)

25 meter rapid fire pistol: Harpreet Singh (India)

50 meter pistol: Gurpal Singh (India)

50 meter rifle prone: Gagan Narang (India)

50 meter rifle three positions: Sanjeev Rajput (India)

Skeet: Drew Christie (Scotland)

Trap: Aaron Heading (England)

Double Trap: Matthew French (England)

Women

10 meter air pistol: Malaika Goel (India)

10 meter air rifle: Ayonika Paul (india)

25 meter pistol: Anisa Sayyed (India)

50 meter rifle prone: Esmari van Reenen (South Africa)

50 meter rifle three positions: Jennifer McIntosh (Scotland)

Skeet: Elena Allen (Wales)

Trap: Georgia Konstantinidou (Cyprus)

Double Trap: Shreyashi Singh (India)

Queen's Prize (Unisex)

Queen's Prize Individual: James Paton (Canada)

Queen's Prize Pairs: James Paton and Desmond Vamplew (Canada)

The 2014 Commobwealth Games are going to be in Glasgow.

Scotland is currently a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and is also a mainland country of Great Britain and recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state.