Commonwealth Games aims to unite through sporting challenges CommonwealthGames2022
MAKING HISTORY Chantal Petitclerc, of Canada, smiles after winning the Women's 800 metres wheelchair race at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester 31 July 2002. Photo credit: MARTYN HAYHOW/AFP via Getty Images
The Games’ administrators, the Commonwealth Games Fed- eration , believe sport “underpins” those goals, uniting its “athletes, citizens and communi- ties through the transformative and connecting power of sport”. The first Games took place in Canada in 1930. There were just 400 athletes from 11 teams and the event was known as the “British Empire Games”Since 1930, the number of sports has risen from six to 20 in 2022 — the most ever. Unlike the Olympics, the hosts have more freedom over which sports they include. Some 16 of the sports — such as athletics, swimming and boxing — are classed as “core”, meaning they have to be included, but the hosts can pick the rest.
In 2014, Nicola Adams won one of the first Commonwealth Games gold medals in women’s boxing after being the first to win Olympic gold in the sport at London 2012.
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