A scaled-back Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow will characteristic simply 10 occasions, with a number of distinguished sports activities being culled.
Video games organisers confirmed on Tuesday the occasion record for the 2026 occasion, which will probably be held in Scotland from Thursday, July 23 to Sunday, August 2.
The slimmed-down program has axed diving, badminton, seaside volleyball, cricket, highway biking and mountain biking, rhythmic gymnastics, hockey, rugby sevens, squash, desk tennis and para desk tennis, triathlon and para triathlon, and wrestling from the Birmingham 2022 Video games.
In 2026, Glasgow will host athletics and para athletics, swimming and para swimming, creative gymnastics, observe biking and para observe biking, netball, weightlifting and para powerlifting, boxing, judo, garden bowls and para bowls, 3×3 basketball and 3×3 wheelchair basketball.
Subject hockey has been on each program since Kuala Lumpur in 1998, and Australia’s Kookaburras and Hockeyroos have received a mixed 14 medals, together with seven straight golds for the boys’s staff.
Diving had been at each version relationship again to the 1930 Empire Video games, and highway biking had featured since 1938.
Wrestling featured on the 1911 Pageant of Empire and all however three — 1990, 1998 and 2006 — Commonwealth Video games since then.
Glasgow, which hosted the Video games in 2014, stepped in late after the Victorian authorities withdrew its pledge to host the occasion.
Organisers have stated the need for a financially sustainable occasion, developed in a brief timeframe, was a catalyst for the trimmed-down program.
“After we began pulling this idea collectively just below a yr in the past, our focus was on making a Video games that was completely different,” Commonwealth Video games Scotland CEO Jon Doig stated.
“Glasgow 2026 could have all of the drama, ardour and pleasure that we all know the Commonwealth Video games delivers, even whether it is to be lighter and leaner than some earlier editions.”
The way forward for the Commonwealth Video games was thrown into disarray in July of 2023 when then-premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews axed the occasion, citing monetary constraints.
Glasgow stepped in to host the Video games and earmarked early on its ambition to have a trimmed-down model of the occasion.
