uk12points 434 Posted September 7, 2017 #11 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Birmingham has been chosen over Liverpool to be England's candidate for hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Birmingham now needs to prove to the treasury that bringing the games to the West Midlands will be value for money as 75% of the costs will come from the taxpayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De_Gambassi 896 Posted September 7, 2017 #12 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Il y a 1 heure , uk12points a déclaré: Birmingham has been chosen over Liverpool to be England's candidate for hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Birmingham now needs to prove to the treasury that bringing the games to the West Midlands will be value for money as 75% of the costs will come from the taxpayer. I didn't know about Durban 2022. What a mess. It doesnt look good for any future possible olympic bid from South Africa. By 2022, five of the last six CWG will have been held in either Great Brtian or Australia. I guess the games are stuck between these two countries with the occasional host from Canada or East Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,200 Posted December 21, 2017 #13 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Birmingham to host the 2022 Commonwealth games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk12points 434 Posted October 19, 2018 #14 Share Posted October 19, 2018 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! Griff88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,200 Posted June 19, 2019 #15 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Exclusive: Shooting set to be overlooked for Birmingham 2022 as women's cricket, beach volleyball and Para table tennis to be added Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted June 19, 2019 #16 Share Posted June 19, 2019 6 minutes ago, intoronto said: Exclusive: Shooting set to be overlooked for Birmingham 2022 as women's cricket, beach volleyball and Para table tennis to be added Happy to see Para Table Tennis return. Beach Volleyball is whatever, it was popular in the Gold Coast, but the strength of commonwealth pairs isn’t great. I’m really excited to see women’s cricket join the program. I really just don’t understand leaving shooting off the program. It’s one of the most competitive commonwealth sports, and it’s a historic competitive, just a bad and sad move on the organizing committees part. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,200 Posted July 28, 2019 #17 Share Posted July 28, 2019 https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1082716/india-set-to-boycott-birmingham-2022 This is interesting. What a bunch of babies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted July 28, 2019 #18 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 hour ago, intoronto said: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1082716/india-set-to-boycott-birmingham-2022 This is interesting. What a bunch of babies! I had heard rumors of this a few weeks ago. I’ve also heard that as many as 30 countries may decide to support their boycott. Birmingham could be the end of the Commonwealth Games as we know them. The decision to omit shooting was not met well by a good amount of CGF members from what I’ve heard. The general assembly this year could be very interesting. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted July 28, 2019 #19 Share Posted July 28, 2019 5 hours ago, intoronto said: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1082716/india-set-to-boycott-birmingham-2022 This is interesting. What a bunch of babies! Basically boycotting the whole thing because your free medal factory won't be at it? Just...wow Grow up If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted July 28, 2019 #20 Share Posted July 28, 2019 On the other side, one could say that the organizers should grow up and not cut a traditional sport only because they don't care about it, while other Commonwealth countries do and are pretty good at it. Olympian1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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