Showing posts with label Commonwealth Games 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commonwealth Games 2026. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 August 2026
Saturday, 1 August 2026
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
AMY HUNT WON THE THIRD WOMEN'S 100M SEMIFINAL
Amy Hunt 🏴 won the third women’s 100m semifinal in 11.02s under heavy rain to qualify for the Commonwealth Games final! 🌧️
Zoe Hobbs 🇳🇿 also secured automatic qualification with 11.04s, while Jonielle Smith 🇯🇲 advanced as the fastest non-automatic qualifier in 11.07s.
- Jumpers World
Monday, 27 July 2026
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
WHO IS HOSTING THE 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES AND WHICH COUNTRIES REFUSED TO HOST IT?
The Commonwealth Games are almost here, as some of the world's best athletes compete for gold across 11 days of action.
There will be a total of 215 gold medals available for stars to claim across 10 core sports that will take centre stage.
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| The Commonwealth Games are here and 215 gold medals are on the lineCredit: Getty |
74 different nations will be competing in this year's Games, with around 3,000 athletes featuring in the event.
Athletics, swimming and cycling are, of course, included in the schedule, with boxing, basketball, gymnastics, judo, netball, bowls and weightlifting all having medals on offer too.
talkSPORT are official partners with the 2026 Commonwealth Games and will have dedicated live coverage every day.
It's going to be an incredible few days and here's where all of the action is going to be taking place...
Who is hosting the Commonwealth Games?
The 2026 Commonwealth Games will get started on Thursday, July 23 and run through until Sunday, August 2.
The Games are being held in Glasgow, Scotland this year.
This is the second time that Glasgow has played host to the event, having done so 12 years ago in 2014.
In total, Scotland has held the Commonwealth Games four times, as Edinburgh hosted things in 1970 and later in 1986.
There are four venues being used in total for this year's event.
Glasgow International Arena, The Scottish Event Campus, Scotstoun Stadium and Tollcross International Swimming Centre will be used.
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| The 2026 Commonwealth Games will be held across four venues in GlasgowCredit: Getty |
Which countries refused to host the Commonwealth Games?
Scotland was not originally planned to host the 2026 Games.
Instead, in 2022, Victoria, Australia was confirmed as the host.
However, just a year later in 2023, they refused to go ahead with the event due to concerns over hosting it.
Malaysia was then asked whether they would step in to host the Commonwealth Games, but they rejected the offer.
That was due to concerns over time, costs and funding.
So, in the end, Glasgow confirmed it would host in 2024, but that the 2026 Games would be a stripped-back event.
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| Scotland stepped in to host the 2026 Games after two nations refusedCredit: Getty |
Commonwealth Games: talkSPORT coverage
As mentioned, talkSPORT is an official broadcast partner of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The network will have a dedicated live show, in association with BYD, during every day of action throughout the event.
Listen talkSPORT through the website or find us on DAB digital radio through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
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- Jack Johnson
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
MADELEINE MCCANN'S BROTHER SEAN, 21, COMPLETING FOR SCOTLAND IN COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The Games, which take place in Glasgow from this Thursday until 2 August 2026, will mark Sean McCann's Commonwealth debut for Scotland
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| (Image: Getty Images for Commonwealth Sport) |
Madeleine McCann’s brother will take part in the Commonwealth Games after being selected to swim for Scotland. Sean McCann is getting ready to step out onto the global stage this week when the Games begin in Glasgow.
Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in southern Portugal on May 3 2007, shortly before her birthday. Sean and his twin sister Amelie were just two when their older sister disappeared.
According to Scottish Swimming, Sean will compete in the freestyle disciplines as he looks to qualify for Team GB and swim at the LA Olympics in 2028. The 21-year-old began competing aged eight and previously raced for Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago in 2023 in the 400m and 1500m freestyle.
Speaking about his competitive journey a few years ago on the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust website, he revealed: “I started competitive sport when I was eight, joining Charnwood triathlon club. It was here that I discovered my passion for swimming and I joined Loughborough Town swimming club to increase the number of swim sessions I did per week.
"At the age of 10, I was selected to swim at City of Leicester and I have since gone on to win multiple county titles as well as becoming regional and National champion in my age group. In order to have achieved this, I have had to remain extremely dedicated, getting up at 4am multiple mornings each week to train, since the age of 11.
"I train nine times a week in the pool, as well as three gym sessions, totalling over 20 hours of training per week. I’m aiming to compete at the 2026 Commonwealth Games and also the 2028 Olympics in LA.”
It is not known if his parents Kate and Gerry McCann will be in attendance at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre during the 11-day event, which begins on Thursday, July 23.
Mr and Mrs McCann criticised a true-crime drama about their daughter’s disappearance back in May, saying the programme was made without their consultation or consent.
Kate and Gerry said they 'had no involvement whatsoever' in the making of Channel 5’s 'Under Suspicion: Kate McCann', which depicts Madeleine’s mother being treated as a suspect during the investigation into her disappearance in May 2007.
In a statement released on the day the show aired, Kate and Gerry raised concerns over the 'negative impact' such programmes have on their family as they continue to grieve Madeleine’s disappearance 19 years on.
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| Kate McCann, the mother of the missing British girl Madeleine, carries her son Sean after piking him up from the local nursery at the Ocean Club holiday resort on May 22, 2007 in Praia da Luz, Portugal. (Image: Getty Images) |
“Thank you to everyone who has offered support & kindness this month,” they wrote on the Find Madeleine Campaign website. “May is never the easiest. We usually start to feel a bit ‘lighter’ at this stage of the month.
“We are disappointed however, knowing that a Channel 5 ‘docu-drama’ will air tonight. We have not given, or been asked for, our consent and have had no involvement whatsoever in its making.
“We fail to see how it will help. Programmes like this, always have a negative impact on our family.”
The Metropolitan Police’s probe into the 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine has been active since 2011. German authorities identified Christian Brueckner as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s case back in 2022.
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| Gerry (L) and Kate McCann (R) leave their home in Rothley, Leicestershire in central England with daughter Amelie and son Sean, 12 September 2007. (Image: Getty Images) |
However, Brueckner has never been charged over Madeleine’s disappearance and has previously denied any involvement. Speaking in December, dad Gerry, from Glasgow, said the hope of finding her after all this time is 'slim', but not 'extinguished'.
“Madeleine’s been missing for 18 years, and the bottom line is, we still don’t know what’s happened to her,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Gerry added: “I don’t even mean ‘convincing’ evidence – there is no evidence to say she’s dead.
“Now we fully understand she may be dead, it may even be probable, but we don’t know that. I’d love to find her alive, but we need to find out what happened and bring whoever’s responsible to justice, and other children and people are at risk while that perpetrator is free.”
- Connor O'Neill
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
HOCKEY, DIVING AND CRICKET AMONG SPORTS REMOVED AXED FOR 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Hockey, rugby sevens and diving are among the big-name Commonwealth Games casualties, axed from the pared-back Glasgow program in 2026.
The Games, relocated to Scotland after Victoria's withdrawal as host, will feature just 10 events, which is nine less than the previous edition held in 2022 in Birmingham.
Other sports to be left out include cricket, badminton, beach volleyball, mountain biking, rhythmic gymnastics, squash and table tennis.
Athletics and swimming were the only sports guaranteed a spot on the program, which also includes track cycling, weightlifting, 3x3 basketball and lawns bowls -- all of which include a para equivalent.
Netball, artistic gymnastics, judo and boxing round out the chosen 10.
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| Multiple sports including Hockey have been dropped from the Commonwealth games. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images |
As a cost-saving measure, the 10 sports will be spread across just four venues -- Scotstoun Stadium, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Emirates Arena and the Scottish Event Campus.
Athletes and support staff will stay in hotel accommodation rather than an athletes village.
The 2026 program will be officially released later on Wednesday.
The multi-sport event had been endangered since the government of Victoria pulled out as host last year, citing spiralling costs, which, it claimed, had blown the budget out to $6 billion.
Victoria paid $380 million in compensation to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), of which $200 million will be directed to Scotland to cover its hosting costs.
That figure will be topped up by $4.5 million from Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) to cover security, with neither the UK nor Scottish governments prepared to use public money -- though the former is said to be prepared to underwrite any additional security costs.
"This is a fantastic outcome for the Commonwealth sport movement," CGA president Ben Houston said last month.
"The Commonwealth Games are at the heart of Australia's performance pathway, often providing the launch pad for continued and ongoing success by Australian athletes.
"They are irreplaceable in terms of providing global competition and, in the absence of an Australian host, it was in the interests of Australian sport that we make an overseas Games a reality."
- AAP
Saturday, 19 August 2023
AUSTRALIAN STATE TO PAY $243 MILLION FOR WITHDRAWING AS 2026 COMMONWEALTH GAME HOST
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| Reuters |
Australia's Victoria state will pay A$380 million ($243 million) to Commonwealth Games organisers, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said on Saturday, after it withdrew as 2026 event host citing a projected cost blowout.
Victoria in July pulled out of hosting the quadrennial multi-sport event, which was to have been held in four regional hubs, with Andrews saying costs could have ballooned to more than A$7 billion from a budgeted A$2.6 billion.
The decision has raised the possibility that the Games may not take place for the first time since being cancelled due to the Second World War.
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