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3 years ago 07/30/2022 11:03pm EDT

re: Colonial Clara

Colonial Clara wrote:
As long as the old world wants to remember their colonial past and pay homage to the Queen, there will continue to be CG. Only thing that keeps some member of the club away are expenses. Countries like Canada, Oz, India cant get enough of the Brits. East Africa will show up to medal in distance events.
This show will go on.

yeah as a Canadian growing up, the Commonwealth Games were really a thing-Edmonton hosted them in '78, and it was the next biggest thing to the Olympics...now though with the wane of the British Empire and having Worlds every 2 years (1st worlds weren't until 1983) dilutes the competition for track and field. Along with having Pan Pacifics/Worlds for swimming, can't blame athletes for prioritizing those instead-still a solid competition but definitely not what it used to be! At least they won't have the fate of the GoodWill games lol!

3 years ago 07/31/2022 1:26am EDT

re: Rust Never Sleeps

Rust Never Sleeps wrote:
Once Elizabeth II passes and King Charles III takes the throne, I think that the Commonwealth will disintegrate. She was very respected and the younger generation is not respected nor have they earned any respect.

I don't even associate the Comm Games with the royals and many of the Commonwealth countries are republics so a change in monarch is meaningless to them.

3 years ago 07/31/2022 1:28am EDT

re: paul72

paul72 wrote:
Colonial Clara wrote:
As long as the old world wants to remember their colonial past and pay homage to the Queen, there will continue to be CG. Only thing that keeps some member of the club away are expenses. Countries like Canada, Oz, India cant get enough of the Brits. East Africa will show up to medal in distance events.
This show will go on.
yeah as a Canadian growing up, the Commonwealth Games were really a thing-Edmonton hosted them in '78, and it was the next biggest thing to the Olympics...now though with the wane of the British Empire and having Worlds every 2 years (1st worlds weren't until 1983) dilutes the competition for track and field. Along with having Pan Pacifics/Worlds for swimming, can't blame athletes for prioritizing those instead-still a solid competition but definitely not what it used to be! At least they won't have the fate of the GoodWill games lol!

The thing about Worlds and Pan Pacs in swimming is they have very little reach outside the swimming community so Comm Games are much better for sponsors at least in Australia.

3 years ago 07/31/2022 1:53am EDT

re: Whattheflip

The marathon was always going to be a difficult event to fill. You have the quota system which limits overall team size across all sports. Then there are the competing championships and the fact that a lot of competitions will also want to run a WMM later in the year for a payday. The competition on the track should be much better

3 years ago 07/31/2022 1:09pm EDT

re: track chick

track chick wrote:
Forgot one of the most important things.
5. It's free. Everyone is struggling with the massive increase in prices of everything. Gas and electricity is up 50%. Food prices are up massively. This is a non-ticketed free event. Birmingham loves a free event and they love to get behind people and support them. They also love sport. So people turned out to watch and cheer the athletes.

Thanks Biden! Oh wait, this wasn't in the US. Oh well, I guess we can only blame Biden for what happens within US borders even if the same things are happening all over the world. Or should we blame him for that too?

3 years ago 07/31/2022 6:08pm EDT

re: High hopes

it looks like there will be really stacked fields in this years games.a lot of countries are sending bigger track and field teams than is usual.theres no asian games this year,so more asian athletes will be competing plus more africans as well.

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