Commonwealth Games

The first Commonwealth Games were held in Hamilton, Canada in 1930.

55 Nations competed at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games.

Olympic Games,

All Countries and Territories are represented,

All sports are played, expected for some,

Origins form Greece,

Teams run with the Olympic torch,

and It's televised around the world,

English and French are use languages.

Commonwealth Games,

only 70 Countries and Territories are represented, Including England, Scotland, Wales and, Northern Ireland,

All sports, including Squash and Lawn bowls

Origins in Great Britain,

Teams run with the Queens baton,

It's televised only in the Commonwealth of nations,

Commonwealth English is used, with some exceptions of Canadian English.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 4947 athletes from 71 nations took part in the 261 events.

This year the commonwealth games are being held in New Delhi, India

There were no commonwealth games in 2008. They were held in Melbourne Australia in 2006 and in Delhi India in 2010. The Commonwealth Youth Games were held in 2008 in Pune, India

No, the nearest Commonwealth Games to 1980 were the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games.

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6081 athletes participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Some famous athletes that have taken part in the Commonwealth Games include Ian Thorpe (won ten Gold Medals), Usain Bolt (one gold), Roger Bannister (one gold), Frankie Fredericks (two gold), Steve Waugh (one silver), Valerie Adams (three golds), Linford Christie (three gold), Steve Backley (three gold), Kelly Holmes (two gold), Bradley Wiggins (four silver) and Peter Snell (two gold).

The first event of these games was known as the British Empire Games,which 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.

Each city wishing to submit a bid makes a 30-minute presentation to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation, which then votes on the cities. If no city gets more than 50% of the vote, the lowest-scoring city is removed from the ballot and they vote again, until there is only one remaining.

90 countries take participation in this event.

The following countries won a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games: England (59 silver medals), Australia (42), India (30), Canada (16), Scotland (15), New Zealand (14), Wales (11), Nigeria (11), South Africa (10), Kenya (10), Malaysia (7), Singapore (5), Jamaica (4), Cyprus (4), Northern Ireland (3), Cameroon (3), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Pakistan (3), Bahamas (2), Samoa (2), Namibia (1), Mozambique (1), Mauritius (1), Bangladesh (1), Isle of Man (1), Nauru (1) and Sri Lanka (1).

there 53 countries
54 nations are in the commonwealth with one current suspended member.

the commonwealth games was started in canada in the 1930's, a few countries got together and created the commonwealth this then led to the games in which teams from each countries compete against each other in a multi-sport competition!

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

The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. 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.

As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball.

There are currently 53 Commonwealth Nations and 71 participating nations.

Attendance at the Commonwealth Games is typically around 5,000 athletes, which makes it one of the largest international sporting events in terms of participants.

Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales.

The 2010 games were held in Delhi (India)

The 2014 Games were in Glasgow (Scotland)

The 2018 Games will be held in Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia)

To keep fit and healthy and as something to do as a hobby.

They have to be part of the Commonwealth of Nations, a community based on the former British Empire.

There is no direct economic or political benefit from being a member of the Commonwealth, although trade between Commonwealth members tends to be more intensive than the trade with non-members, also because of regular economic and political summits between members. Some Commonwealth countries (but certainly not all of them) give preferential treatment to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. As a commonwealth citizen, you can get consular assistance anywhere in the world from the embassy of another Commonwealth country if your own country does not have an Embassy there.

No way.

Commonwealth countries are all states who once belong to the British Empire.

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