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With 1 million tickets almost sold and only a few months to go until the opening ceremony at Celtic ParkI thought it was time we made a thread. Commonwealth Games are different in several ways to the Olympics Games; they're smaller, only Commonwealth countries can compete and (probably most importantly for this forum) we can support our own home nations. Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland will be sending teams to Glasgow to partly make up the 7000 athletes participating for 261 medals in 17 different sports.

- 11 days of competition from 23 July to 3 August 2014.
- 70 nations participating
- 16 different venues
- 261 events


Links

http://www.glasgow2014.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Commonwealth_Games
https://twitter.com/Glasgow2014
http://www.facebook.com/Glasgow2014

2010 Dehli Medals

1 Australia 74 55 48 177
2 India 38 27 36 101
3 England 37 59 46 142
4 Canada 26 17 32 75
5 Kenya 12 11 10 33
5 South Africa 12 11 10 33
7 Malaysia 12 10 13 35
8 Singapore 11 11 9 31
9 Nigeria 11 10 14 35
10 Scotland 9 10 7 26

I'm not expecting this thread to capture the imagination immediately, but I wanted to put it out there.

Where do I sign up to compete?

Zero interest in the Commonwealth games if I'm honest.

I'm working first aid \o/

At commonwealth house where there's no actual games afaik. /o\

Commonealth?

Why did they choose Celtic Park fo the opening and not Hampden?

It's like the Olympics, but no one cares about them but the host city.

The commonwealth games will give the yes votes massive boost.

Commonwealth Games are better as there are no references to "Team GB".

What commonwealth countries are in the Mediterranean? Did you fiendish Brits conquer some poor islands there as well?

1cmanny1 wrote:What commonwealth countries are in the Mediterranean? Did you fiendish Brits conquer some poor islands there as well?

Cyprus, Malta and Gibraltar.

frogg wrote:Why did they choose Celtic Park fo the opening and not Hampden?

It seats 10,000 more than Hampden, and is closer to the Emirates Arena(read, literally across the road) where a big chunk of the games are taking place I guess.

Corazon de Leon wrote:

frogg wrote:Why did they choose Celtic Park fo the opening and not Hampden?

It seats 10,000 more than Hampden, and is closer to the Emirates Arena(read, literally across the road) where a big chunk of the games are taking place I guess.

Neither Celtic Park or Ibrox can fit athletic tracks in them. Hampden is the national stadium and is built for such a purpose. It would be difficult to fit in the opening ceremony at Hampden with the athletics taking place immediately afterwards. Ibrox wanted the Opening AND closing ceremonies over both Hampden and Celtic park, greedy buggers.

Oh. To be honest, I don't think I could be less bothered about the Commonwealth Games. I mean, I'll probably watch it, but I wouldn't be too cut up if I missed big chunks of it.