The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games organising committee have announced the final list of sports and venues for the Games. The major change compared to Gold Coast 2018 is that Beach Volleyball, Shooting and 5x5 Basketball have been dropped and replaced by Judo, Basketball 3x3 and Wheelchair Basketball
These are the sports:
Aquatics - Diving, Swimming (Para)
Athletics (Para)
Badminton
Basketball 3x3
Boxing
Cycling - Track (Para), Mountain Bike, Road
Field Hockey
Gymnastics - Artisitc, Rhythmic
Judo
Lawn Bowls
Netball
Rugby Sevens
Squash
Table Tennis
Triathlon (Para)
Weightlifting (Powerlifting)
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
Wrestling
The venues for the games will be spread within Birmingham and the West Midlands region, with only 1 venue (London Olympic Velodrome) falling outside of the West Midlands.
The Birmingham city centre venues include the National Exhibition Centre and attached Genting Arena, Birmingham Arena, Symphony Hall and Victoria Square.
Other Birmingham venues include University of Birmingham, Alexander Stadium, Villa Park Stadium.
The West Midlands venues include the planned Sandwell Aquatics Centre, Coventry Arena, Royal Leamington Spa Bowls Club, Sutton Coldfield Park, Cannock Chase.
I'm impressed by this plan, mainly as only 1 venue (Sandwell Aquatics Centre) will have to be newly built and other venues will be upgraded at the University and Alexander stadium which will become a stadium worthy of being the home of British Athletics. It's a shame Shooting was unable to make the program, the National Shooting Centre is in Surrey and had been proposed but it is a few hours drive away, but since it is only an optional sport the Gommonwealth Games Federation surely saw it's exclusion coming!