Downgraded last minute event after the Aussies dropped it.
Missing many events, big athletes missing out and poor TV coverage.
Unfortunately, i dont see this going on much longer.
PS - hosting commonwealth games and European Championships has ruined the domestic athletics calendar. All domestic champs crammed into 6 weeks and finished by mid July.
Sadly, the Commonwealth Games is never going to come back. Too expensive, sadly largely irrelevant in an ever crowded global sporting calendar. And sort of meaningless, what even is the Commonwealth these days?
I always enjoyed it in fact, but cant see a way back for it. Netball aside (which is de facto World Championships) and maybe Bowls, the other events have little meaning in the modern sporting world.
TNT coverage is awful Athletics stadium is half full.
Such a pity.
Fair dos to the Scottish Government and Glasgow for doing a partial rescue act so that there are 2026 Games at all. But in 2014 they used Hampden ( required a lot of work to make it useable for athletics ) and I recall big athletes and I think pretty big crowds.
Has the Commonwealth Games had its time? I hear talk of allowing joint bids in the future for whatever that means / entails. India supposedly hosting in 2030.
