Commonwealth Games 2026

[Orangehair43 285]

55 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

So is every swimming event just going to be a straight final? We send twice as much to the Olympics. We might as well not even compete in the freestyle relays with those numbers.

 

I know they are trying to save the games, but the biggest draw to the Commonwealth Games was it was a best on best event. Once you start messing with that the games will become an after thought.

Atheltics  is not having such small numbers for its track events so swimming has been shortchanged having to have straight finals of just 8. 

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

Actually now that I look at the numbers, it makes even less sense. Almost the entire reduction of 4800 athlete down to 3000 is explained by the removal of events. There's no reason to halve our swim team, considering we likely have the third strongest team

[Orangehair43 285]

9 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Actually now that I look at the numbers, it makes even less sense. Almost the entire reduction of 4800 athlete down to 3000 is explained by the removal of events. There's no reason to halve our swim team, considering we likely have the third strongest team

I’m suprsied the games is still that big!  

[Orangehair43 285]

I’ve been told there are no straight finals planned for the swimming. 

[TeamGB 207]

19 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Actually now that I look at the numbers, it makes even less sense. Almost the entire reduction of 4800 athlete down to 3000 is explained by the removal of events. There's no reason to halve our swim team, considering we likely have the third strongest team

Whose decision was this, Team Canada's or the Organising committes?

[JoshMartini007 2,765]

10 minutes ago, TeamGB said:

Whose decision was this, Team Canada's or the Organising committes?

In the past few games, Canada (and other nations) was given an overall athlete quota which they then divided it through the various sports.

[intoronto 6,394]

Some sports have qualification systems

 

3x3 basketball (wheelchair)

Para-cycling

Powerlifting

Weightlifting

[Epic Failure 359]

Has the quota for Canada been offically confirmed anyway, or is that just a rumour? I can't find anything on google about it (nor the suggested quota for England's athletes someone posted earlier).

 

12 per gender would make sense (it's roughly what Canada sent to Birmingham). 12 overall seems dumb.

[Orangehair43 285]

13 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

Has the quota for Canada been offically confirmed anyway, or is that just a rumour? I can't find anything on google about it (nor the suggested quota for England's athletes someone posted earlier).

 

12 per gender would make sense (it's roughly what Canada sent to Birmingham). 12 overall seems dumb.

That quota I’ve been told by an athlete aiming to qualify who I know online. 

[Orangehair43 285]

Regarding the swimming they have added the 800m for men and the 1500m for women so cutting numbers would be odd.