Commonwealth Games 2022

Hosting the Games has seem Birmingham dotted with new infrastructure and amenities. But the city's pioneering transformation began over a 100 years ago.

But it should not distract from the city’s innovative and experimental approach to creating healthy neighbourhoods by achieving a new kind of balance between profitability and sustainability. Further funding from the West Midland Combined Authority and Birmingham City Council will top this up to £1.3 billion. Public transport is set to increasingly displace the use of private cars, thereby reducing air pollution and traffic noise. Birmingham City Council still retains the freeholds for most of the land in the city centre today. This includes the ability to focus on enhancing the quality of the built environment. These interventions include the £705 million redevelopment of New Street railway station, completed in 2015. The city council was behind this £500m, 1.8 million sq foot office-led mixed commercial scheme and stands to benefit from additional business rates and ground rents. The city’s gradual restructuring of its economy has seen major corporate players consider the city as a suitable business location. Our research shows that this was, in fact, a Birmingham innovation. Other major corporate players have followed suit including HS2, Goldman Sachs and Microland, the Indian IT infrastructure company. The Games will thus leave a permanent legacy of their own. Cities are places to live and work.

Three of England's athletes will not compete in this year's Commonwealth Games - but one has managed to make an impact in a different way.

And with it sticks a reminder of the stains of colonialism and the slave trade in the former British Empire. But just how much of a priority is the Commonwealth Games for the elite stars? Cricket returns to the Commonwealth Games for the first time this century with a first-ever women's competition in the Twenty20 format. But this is a sporting event that can seem like a relic of the past, clinging to the association with former British colonies. The lack of future interested hosts was reflected in the need for Commonwealth Games chiefs to provide greater flexibility to local organisers in shaping the event by only mandating that athletics and swimming had to be on the programme in future. Do the Commonwealth Games have a place in the 21st century?

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Birmingham 2022 has had the kind of build-up that few other editions of the CWG had, thanks to the pandemic and, from an Indian perspective, the threats of a boycott that came in July 2019 from the IOA due to the omission of shooting from the list of events. PV Sindhu is India's flagbearer alongwith men's hockey captain Manpreet Singh in the opening ceremony on Thursday and as India expects a rich haul of medals this time, let's take a look at India's top 10 gold medal contenders. The Alexander Stadium has been the home of UK Athletics since 2011 and underwent extensive renovations for the CWG over the past three years. Women's T20 cricket makes its debut this year at the CWG and cricket itself is making a comeback after 1998. There will be a whole lot packed into the three and a half or so hours that have been allocated for this extravaganza. India won 26 Gold medals and a total of 66 medals at Gold Coast 2018, thus finishing third on the medal table. Australia's shooting governing body has launched a social media campaign to get shooting included in the programme for the 2026 Commonwealth Games and so it is not only India who are angry about the sport being ommitted. Athletes are posting photos on their social media handles and so is the Sports Authority of India. Well the ceremony has begun. If you were someone who were exposed to music from that side of the world in the 1980s, this might be a nice little moment for you. Duran Duran brings the proceedings to a loud and bright end. The Indian contingent was led by badminton star PV Sindhu, who won a silver and gold at the last CWG, and men's hockey captain Manpreet Singh, who led the team to a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Kia ora koutou and welcome to our coverage of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth games opening ceremony. Kiwi sports stars Tom Walsh and Joelle King are set to ...

Sam Webster - Cycling - Track Olivia King - Cycling - Track Sam Dakin - Cycling - Track Basketball 3x3 and women's T20 cricket are making debuts. Ellesse Andrews - Cycling - Track Dame Sophie Pascoe returns to the pool where she will be competing in just one event. Canterbury comes in second with 32 athletes, the Waikato third with 29 and Bay of Plenty fourth with 17 athletes. The team members come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, including athletes with Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islands, Fijian, Filipino, Chinese, Australian, European and African heritage. The New Zealand team includes 233 athletes, from 19 sports and two para-sports. Click here to check it out. It will have a capacity of 32,000 for the Commonwealth Games. The 22nd Commonwealth Games heads back to the UK and it's Birmingham's time to host.

The Commonwealth Games will kick off in Birmingham today with the official opening ceremony - here's everything you need to know.

The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One from 7pm. The 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony will begin at 8pm and take place in Birmingham, where the games will be held. The games will kick off today in Birmingham with the opening ceremony marking the official start of the competition.

Birmingham's Alexander Stadium comes alive for the opening ceremony as more than 4000 athletes from around the world arrive for the 12 days of the Games.

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This year's Games in Birmingham comes against a backdrop of Commonwealth nations looking to remove the Queen as head of state.

“It’s very easy to look at the Commonwealth and see negatives, a waywardness in terms of its overall purpose and direction, but also see it as a reconstructed empire. The Commonwealth has been Queen Elizabeth II’s great project. That can help us imagine it and think about it in a more positive way? “We know that Charles is not as wedded to the Commonwealth as his mother. “What I have found quite reassuring about the Birmingham Commonwealth Games is the orchestrators of the events appear to be using it as an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of Birmingham.” Although there will be a strong royal presence in Birmingham throughout the Games, the Queen – who is patron of the Commonwealth Games and retains a close association to them – won’t attend in person after a number of mobility issues.

Even Thursday night's ceremony at the Alexander Stadium, where athletes paraded around a giant mechanical bull signifying this proud industrial city, followed ...

"There's definitely a huge appetite in the city. Over 40,000 volunteers wanted to be part of this and that says a lot. A number of commercial flights had to go into a holding pattern before landing at Birmingham International Airport this evening due to the Red Arrows’ fly over. Did we really need to hear that Stella and her cohort “recognise that this is Birmingham’s time for transformation” or that they “heal the hurt as the bull is revealed as a symbol of light and love”? At the Commonwealths, it pays not to ask too many questions. It would take a hard-hearted soul, at this of all moments, to deny anyone that pleasure. It is a stubborn relic of an imperial past, to which most of its audience are happily oblivious. What was the role of Stella and the Dreamers, the central protagonists, supposed to be? The Commonwealths promise to deliver a similarly escapist rush. It is a key reason why the Lionesses have been so rapturously embraced en route to their European final at Wembley on Sunday. Many of their players have gone through years of being ignored or undervalued. Up the M6, Cristiano Ronaldo was sulking about having to abase himself at Manchester United for another season on £360,000 a week. And yet this opening ceremony felt, in its eccentric way, like a timely expression of sporting purity. Nobody can argue with any conviction that the Commonwealth Games represent the apogee of athletic endeavour.

The 'love letter' to Birmingham also centred a message condemning anti-gay laws in Commonwealth countries.

Yes, people want independence but people still want to be a part of the Commonwealth Games. A city that famously boasts it doesn’t boast, might just have something to crow about in the days ahead... They only stepped in to stage these Games when South Africa’s Durban pulled out because of cost concerns. If you go into the Village and see the athletes together, it’s family, that’s how we speak and how we see each other. For too many years they’ve been held together by one woman, now 96, and this sports event. Birmingham’s quirky first-night show won’t have done any harm in that scrap.

A raging bull, Malala Yousafzai, a Brummie drag queen and Duran Duran all part of festivities.

Excitement about the Games has been building for months. It was dragged into the stadium by 50 women representing chainmakers from the Industrial Revolution. “We tried to give everything an edge. The city and wider region will provide the perfect stage for our athletes to compete.” “It feels like these games have come around at the right time for this city,” said the show’s artistic director, Iqbal Khan. “We are ready to make a statement to the world about ourselves. The opening ceremony followed the journey of Stella and the Dreamers, a group of young athletes from around the Commonwealth, through Birmingham’s history.

Now a Birmingham native, Malala Yousafzai took to the stage in the centre of Alexander Stadium during the ceremony to introduce the song Hear My Voice and ...

Peace." Where families can live in peace and in dignity. "To all the athletes representing the Bahamas, I wish you the best of luck for the Games. Where women can fully participate in society. A future where every child can go to school. The youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize narrated a presentation about the importance of education, appearing in the centre of the stadium to cheers and applause.

The waiting is finally over … the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games officially open today. Diver Jack Laugher and weightlifter Emily Campbell are the Team ...

Sessions will contain all of the events listed but not necessarily in that order. - Finals (7pm-10pm – all races finals unless stated): Men’s 100m Freestyle; Women’s 200m Backstroke; Men’s 50m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Women’s 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals; Men’s 100m Butterfly Semi-Finals; Women’s 200m Individual Medley; Men’s 50m Freestyle S7; Women’s 100m Breaststroke SB6; Men’s 50m Backstroke; Women’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay. - Finals (7pm-10:15pm – all races finals unless stated): Men’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 50m Breaststroke; Men’s 200m Freestyle; Women’s 50m Freestyle Semi-Finals; Men’s 50m Freestyle S13; Women’s 50m Freestyle S13; Men’s 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Women’s 100m Backstroke Semi-Finals; Men’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 100m Butterfly; Men’s 100m Backstroke; Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay. - Heats (10:30am-12:15pm): Men’s 200m Freestyle; Women’s 50m Freestyle, Men’s 50m Freestyle S13; Women’s 50m Freestyle S13; Men’s 100m Breaststroke; Women’s 100m Backstroke; Men’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 200m Breaststroke; Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay. - Heats (10:30am-1:15pm): Men’s 400m Freestyle; Women’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 200m Freestyle; Men’s 100m Backstroke S9; Women’s 100m Freestyle S9; Men’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 50m Breaststroke; Men’s 100m Backstroke; Women’s 100m Butterfly; Men’s 200m Breaststroke; Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay. Tag us into your social posts and let us know how you’re cheering on Team England’s swimmers and divers.

The Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) gets underway on July 29, Friday and during the course of the opening day, a large number of Indian players will be seen ...

Hockey – Starts at 6:30 PM Cricket – Starts at 3:30 PM India currently ranks fourth in the all-time CWG medal table.

Commonwealth Games 2022: Indian women's hockey and cricket teams are beginning their campaign on Day 1 with both wishing each other for a winning start.

During the grand opening ceremony, Indian contingent led by ace shuttler PV Sindhu and hockey captain Manpreet Sing marched with honour. The grand opening ceremony with full pomp and show at the Alexander stadium in Birmingham took place on Thursday. A contingent of 215 athletes will represent India in CWG in 141 events. A large number of Indian players will be seen in action on Friday, the first day of 22nd Commonwealth Games. Indian women's hockey and cricket teams are beginning their campaign on Day 1 with both wishing each other for a winning start.

Commonwealth Games 2022: Besides Prince Charles' classy entrance and Malala Yousufzai's powerful speech, the opening ceremony at the Alexander Stadium ...

The Birmingham Bull was a showstealer during the opening ceremony. Where families can live in peace and in dignity. Where women can fully participate in society.

The start of the games comes almost 10 years to the day since the critically-acclaimed opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

"The city and wider region will provide the perfect stage for our athletes to compete. The Queen's message to open the games also praised the "hard work and dedication" of the organisers and athletes. As Stella and the Dreamers continue their journey, they are shown the fire of the Library of Birmingham in 1879, which destroyed a number of Shakespeare's works and the building. The Queen has said we should all celebrate the "particularly special sporting event" of the Commonwealth Games as a reminder of "our connection with one another, wherever we may be in the world, as part of the Commonwealth family of nations". A tribute was also paid to the Queen for her leadership of the Commonwealth, with a combination of clips played showing various appearances and speeches during her role as the head of state. The start of the games comes almost 10 years to the day since the critically-acclaimed opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

A daily sport-by-sport guide plus 10 events you won't want to miss at this year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

- Table tennis and para table tennis - 9.30am-1.15pm - Table tennis and para table tennis - 11am-4.30pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm There is an end-of-era feel about the hosts’ team in Birmingham with a number of veterans involved, and they will want to go out with a bang by winning gold again. - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4pm The economics graduate only took up boxing aged 18, but six years on he is targeting the podium. The wheelchair racer has won seven Paralympic and 11 world titles, as well as multiple European golds, but this should be her first Commonwealth triumph. In his everyday life, Nick Brett is a humble civil servant. Her build-up has been hampered this year by medical issues, however. The opening ceremony got underway on Thursday evening.

Cameron McMillan runs through the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team and picks the likely gold medal winners. Tom Walsh - Men's shot put.

Lawn bowls New Zealand has to be considered to win medals in a sport that has produced 40 in total at the Games, 13 gold. Strength of field: Clareburt was fourth at the FINA World Championships in Budapest in June with Aussie Brendon Smith half a second behind in fifth. Maybe one for the future but she's already proven she can compete with the best in the world. A defeat in the opener to South Africa and it will be sudden death for the rest of the tournament. Strength of field: Australia are ranked third in the world with hosts England fifth. Track cycling provided two gold (men's team sprint and Sam Webster in men's sprint) on the Gold Coast and 11 medals in total. Strength of field: Tokyo silver medalist Yee will be the home favourite but Wilde has the form. The Black Sticks had a strong showing at the World Cup last month, where they beat England 3-1 in pool play, before going down to Germany in the quarters. They just haven't had a tournament win since 2020 due to Covid. Lost the London final in May final to Australia after beating them in poolplay. The All Blacks Sevens are a young side but have shown this year that they have it in them to compete with the top sides. King and Coll made up a formidable duo in the mixed doubles. 2018 silver medalist Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, ranked 14th, has a season best of 21.25m. They are the only decent challengers and Walsh would need a bad day to lose.

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Ranil Wickremesinghe received overwhelming support from lawmakers to become the new president of Sri Lanka until 2024. The PFI, which describes itself as an organisation for social work, has been allegedly involved in forced conversions and multiple murders With the opening ceremony done, the focus now shifts to sporting action with a lot of Indian athletes in action on Day 1. Australia were at the top with 198 medals and England were second with 136 medals. She had won the first game 11-5. Manika Batra clinches the second game 11-3. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India vs South Africa. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India vs South Africa. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India vs South Africa. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India vs South Africa. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India vs South Africa. CWG 2022 Day 1 Live Updates: Table Tennis, India beat South Africa.

ITV News brings you a recap of the main talking points of the last 24 hours at the games, and looks ahead to what's on the event schedule for the day ahead.

The opening ceremony for the XXII Commonwealth Games will take place this evening before the action commences tomorrow morning - and ahead of the ...

BBC Three: 7:05pm – 10:30pm Over 5,000 athletes from 72 countries or territories will compete for a total of 1,875 medals across 20 different sports. Athletes have descended upon Birmingham for the XXII Commonwealth Games ahead of an action-packed 10 days.

Here are all fixtures, timings of events involving Indian athletes on July 29 so that you can stay up to speed!

CWG 2022 Live Day 1: An action-packed Day 1 awaits Indian fans in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, as India women's cricket team meets Australia while ...

Tania Choudhury will also feature at the same time in the Women's Singles Sectional Play Round 1 event. Cricket makes only its second appearance at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, with women's event featuring for the first time. However, India faces a setback this year as Shooting -- where India boasted of multiple medal contenders at the Games -- has not been included in the final roster. The match is scheduled at 2 PM IST. Six hours later, they will take on Fiji in their second group game. India had finished a dismal 9th in the Women's Hockey World Cup earlier this month, winning only 1 match in six. India are currently ranked fourth in the all-time medal tally at the Commonwealth Games, but they are unlikely to make a climb anytime soon.

A look into the rules and point system of Lawn Bowls, a sport that has featured in every Commonwealth Games since 1930.

In case team A had managed to place three bowls closer to the target than team B’s closest bowl, it would have been awarded three points. The team which manages to place its bowls closer to the target wins the points for the end. The number of points awarded is determined by the number of bowls a team has managed to place closer than its opponent. On the other hand, in the multi-player formats, a team gets two throws per player. A team gets four attempts in the singles format. As the name suggests, Lawn Bowls is played on a green stretch of land.

Clubbed in Group 1 alongside three other teams, India will begin their title defence against Pakistan. The other teams in the group are Australia and Sri ...

There are two rest periods during the game. The player or pair winning a rally adds a point to its score. Around 2000 years ago, badminton originated in Siam, China and was brought to England in 1870. The badminton mixed team events begin on Friday. India is clubbed in Group I and will begin their campaign on the first day against Pakistan. Top two teams advance to the knockouts from each of the four groups. I have changed a lot in 10 years, improved by leaps and bounds, have tons of experience behind me now and it does feel great to make it to the Commonwealth Games team again,” Ashwini said. They’ll once again look to conjure a similar tale when the badminton event kicks off at the CWG on Friday, starting with the mixed team event.

Day 1 of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games is here with plenty of action involving the Indian athletes. The Games were declared open during the opening ...

Rawat will look to qualify for the final in his event which is later in the day. The Games were declared open during the opening ceremony on Thursday, which showcased Birmingham's rich culture and diversity. If it does not, please click here.)

With lawn bowls, badminton and triathlon all to come on day one, join Will Magee to follow the action in Birmingham.

How will the medal table look by the end of the day? Whatever happens, let’s hope that, in the words of Nadine Dorries, the Games “puts Birmingham on the map”. It was famously impossible to locate the United Kingdom’s second-largest city before today. She will be up against Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, who pipped her to a gold medal in Tokyo. His main rival is New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with both expected to end up on the podium. The lawn bowls and para lawn bowls are well under way. It has featured at every Games bar 1966, when it was dropped owing to the lack of available bowling greens in Kingston, Jamaica. Missed the opening ceremony last night? She’s spoken about her excitement at taking part in the Games and experiencing “a noisy home crowd”. England are up next, with Laura Kenny leading the charge. England are now 28-0 up and, to be honest, a Sri Lanka comeback seems quite unlikely. It’s nice of Boatman to give someone else a turn. They post the slowest time so far at 4:24.701.

Day one of the games gets underway · England's Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, both Olympic individual silver medallists, go for triathlon glory · Women's T20 ...

I'm so excited just to get out in front of a home crowd again, because you don't get it that often, especially in London." Kenny, who will also compete in the scratch race and points race this weekend, added: "I just feel so relaxed about the whole situation. More than 5,000 athletes representing 72 nations and territories will compete in 280 medal events until 8 August. I don't know whether it is because I never really thought the Commonwealth Games was going to be a target, because we were planning on having another little one by now, but I feel more relaxed than ever. Obviously not meaning to, but I think it made us realise that cycling is one thing, but life is another. "It is a city symbolic of the rich diversity and unity of the Commonwealth, and one which now welcomes you all in friendship," the message said. First day at Birmingham 2022 and I'm in... Kenny said she just wanted to enjoy the occasion having had a horrendous winter during which she suffered a miscarriage followed by an ectopic pregnancy. Kenny, who made her name at those Games, is now Britain's most successful female Olympian of course. "It put lots of things into perspective," she said. And England's quartet have just got their run started. When we spoke earlier this week Kenny said she had no idea.

16 of those are on offer on day one as gymnastics, triathalon and netball all get underway on Friday. England will attempt to defend their men's team gymnastics ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Alex Yee is England’s best hope after Jonny Brownlie pulled out. Jamie Riddle and Tayler Reid are the two others up top with Wilde. The 2022 Commonwealth Games is underway after the opening ceremony took place last night to kick off 10 days of intense sporting action. Canada’s Summer McIntosh has cruised through her heat in the women’s 400m individual medley. Women’s T20 cricket makes its Commonwealth debut with a huge match as Australia take on India at Edgbaston before England battle Trinidad and Tobago to kick off their netball defence around midday.

CWG 2022 Live News Updates: Indian athletes will take part in mixed team badminton prelims, women's cricket, women's hockey, men's and women's table tennis ...

Ace boxer Shiva Thapa outclassed Pakistan’s Suleman Baloch in the first round of the 63.5kg category while India expectedly made mincemeat of Pakistan in a lop-sided 5-0 win in the mixed team badminton event. The Indian women’s hockey team was also off to a winning start but it was far from impressive in a 5-0 victory over Ghana in its Pool A game. The men’s team first beat Barbados before thrashing Singapore while the women’s side prevailed over South Africa and Fiji.

Along with Mirabai, Sanket Sargar and Gururaja will be keen to contribute to country's medals tally.

So, Mirabai will look forward to achieving her long cherished goal of 90kg mark in snatch. Tashkent Commonwealth championship winners Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg), a 2018 Youth Olympics champion, and Achinta Sheuli (73kg) are among the leading Indians who can land gold medals. Along with Mirabai, who has an individual tally of one gold and one silver and is the runaway favourite for the women’s 49kg crown, Commonwealth record holder Sanket Sargar (men’s 55kg) and Gururaja (61kg) will be keen to contribute to the country’s medals tally on the opening day on Saturday.

The 2022 Commonwealth Games kicks off with a star-studded lineup of 10 events on Friday featuring big names like Ariarne Titmus and Summer McIntosh.

Meanwhile, Kenya snuck into the final qualifying spot after South Africa was disqualified in the final heat. - Australia, 3:22.14 Will Zac Stubblety-Cook break his own world record tonight? After sitting out the World Championships, Emma McKeon got off to a strong start in Birmingham with a top-seeded time of 57.34, edging Canadien Olympic champ Maggie MacNeil by six-tenths of a second. The 18-year-old South African reached the wall more than half a second ahead of the field, which featured defending champion Mitch Larkin (No. 7 seed). Twenty-three-year-old Englishman Brodie Williams was Coetze’s closest challenger this morning, clocking in just .26 seconds slower than his personal best from 2019. England’s Imogen Louise Clark was just .22 off her personal best, not far away from the meet record herself and a full four-tenths of a second clear of the remaining field. Saturday night’s 50 fly final is shaping up to be a tight race after Kyle Chalmers edged Ben Proud by .o1 seconds for the top qualifying spot heading into tonight’s semifinal. Cody Simpson made the semifinal with a 23.84 after being promoted to swim the event in the absence of fellow Aussie Isaac Cooper. Ariarne Titmus eased into the top qualifying spot with a 1:55.68, a couple seconds off her personal best as she gears up for a potentially record-breaking swim in tonight’s finals. Summer McIntosh cruised to a victory in 4:36.72, finishing three seconds shy of the time that won her gold at Worlds last month. Daniel Wiffen will take the top qualifying spot heading into tonight’s finals with a 3:47.43, shaving more than a second off his previous best from April to edge Mack Horton by .11 seconds. Four of the morning heats — the men’s 50-meter butterfly, women’s 50 breaststroke, men’s 100 backstroke, and women’s 100 fly — have semifinal rounds before finals on Saturday night.

Alex Yee grabbed England's first gold medal of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with victory in the men's triathlon at Sutton Park.

Over the course of his short career, Yee has established himself as arguably the best runner in the sport and bit by bit he dramatically pulled back the leaders. As Yee emerged from his swim 15 seconds from the lead, embedded within the main pack, he was charged with the task of chasing down the leaders in the 20km cycle. He finished the swim in third place, the leading pack of three with Jamie Riddle of South Africa and New Zealand’s Tayler Reid immediately distancing themselves.

SportsBrief.com News ☆ The 2022 Commonwealth Games in England are fully underway, with Team South Africa looking for another strong showing on day two out ...

19:00 South Africa (Rittmuller/Neluonde) v Guernsey Men's Pairs Sectional Play - Round 2 16:00 South Africa (Rittmuller/Neluonde) v Fiji Men's Pairs Sectional Play - Round 1 Below is a list of who will be competing at what time in the afternoon and evening sessions.

Commonwealth Games 2022 triathlon: route, schedule, timetable, distances, results and when does it start? England's Alex Yee won the first gold medal of the ...

- Run - 4 laps of 2km (1 per athlete) - Cycle - 4 laps of 5km (1 per athlete) - Each individual athlete will complete 4 laps of the cycling course, except for the mixed relay event in which each athlete will complete a single lap.

England's Alex Yee completed the course with a timing of 50:34 to win the first gold medal at this year's quadrennial event.

Yee’s timing for the swim was 8:49 while he completed the cycling course in 26:07. For the running course, Yee clocked 14:31. The sprint distance triathlon event consists a 750m swimming course, a 20 km cycling course and a 5 km run. The athlete from England completed the course in 50 minutes and 34 seconds and took the first place.

Para-sport is fully integrated into the Games. The athletes, in 27 sports and eight Para-sports, will compete across 15 venues in and around Birmingham. Venues ...

The Games have been held every four years since 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, cancelled because of the second world war. Until 1950 they were known as the British Empire Games. The previous Commonwealth Games in 2018 were held on the Gold Coast in Australia, while the 2026 Games will also be held Down Under, in Melbourne and the surrounding state of Victoria. Over 11 days of action, about 6,500 competitors and officials from 72 nations and territories are participating in the 22nd Commonwealth Games. It is the biggest multi-sport event to be held in the UK since the 2012 London Olympics.

Welcome to the day one swimming heats of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games as 17 Team England athletes compete at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

Alex Yee has already won gold for Team England, but there is plenty more action on the way across 11 days in Birmingham.

The world’s best bowler in both one-day internationals and T20s, Sophie Ecclestone will be key to England’s hopes of winning the inaugural Commonwealth women’s cricket title. The Northern Ireland gymnast was almost prevented from defending his crown, initially excluded from the games by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) because he has represented Ireland in major competitions. Few would have predicted that result in an event where Australia and New Zealand had contested every previous final, but if England are to repeat the feat, they will need more heroics from Housby, who plays her club netball in Australia. The correct answer is Alex ‘Tattie’ Marshall, a five-time lawn bowls gold medallist who heads to Birmingham 2022 for his seventh Commonwealth Games, having overhauled Wells as Scotland’s greatest four years ago. The Team Scotland athlete now faces the not inconsiderable challenge of backing up that performance in Birmingham as he looks to upgrade the bronze he won in Gold Coast. She now heads to Birmingham to compete for Team Wales on the road as the mother of a four-month-old baby boy. Netball, cricket and hockey finals within a matter of hours promise an unforgettable day of team sport. Saturday 6 August: A massive middle-distance day at the Alexander Stadium as newly-crowned world champion Jake Wightman takes on all comers in the morning 1500m and Keely Hodgkinson tops the bill in the evening’s 800m. World mountain bike champion Evie Richards, from the Malvern Hills, will be favourite for gold in her own backyard and all-conquering Kiwi Paul Coll is the star attraction in squash finals. You don’t need to look far for inspiration as refugee weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet and Craig Bowler – a para-athlete by name and by nature, who bowls with one arm and neither leg – go for gold. The pool is graced by Maisie Summers-Newton, Australia’s five-time Olympic champion Emma McKeon and her pop star boyfriend Cody Simpson with his 4.6m Instagram followers in tow – surely the most here. Friday 29 July: Triathlon takes over bucolic Sutton Park where England’s Georgia Taylor-Brown battles Bermudan Flora Duffy. They went one-two in Tokyo and occupy those same spots in world rankings.

Team England will not sing the UK's national anthem in Birmingham.

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