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Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Commonwealth Games - Information Drop
The purpose of this information drop is to share an interesting fact about the Commonwealth Games.
Share a fact that no one has already shared.
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Did you know the commonwealth games has 17 sports such as ; Aquatics,Athletics,Badminton,Boxing,Cycling,Gymnastics ,Hockey,Judo,Lawn Bowls,Netball,Rugby,Shooting,Squash,Table Tennis,Triathlon,Weight Lifting and Wrestling .
The Queen’s Baton will travel around the Commonwealth for 288 days covering more than 118,000 miles.
ReplyDeletethe area that the commonwealth games were held in New Zealand has been demolished
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand has hosted 3 out of 20 commonwealth games
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand has hosted the Commonwealth games 3 times and only Canada and Australia have hosted it more times than us. Australia by 2 and Canada by 1.
ReplyDeleteIn Gymnastics the men will have to do six different tasks. The women have four different tasks to do. But sadly we have no medals yet.
ReplyDeleteThirty-one of the commonwealth members have a population size of 1.5million people or less.
ReplyDeleteMore than two billion citizens live in the commonwealth and in 2009 447,043 of those people lived in the Highlands and Islands.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand has won 45 medals at Glasgow.The nations best on foreign soil.The best in the last 2 games combined
ReplyDeleteThe next Commonwealth Games will be held in the Gold Coast, Australia in 2018.
ReplyDeleteThe next Commonwealth Games will be held in the Gold Coast, Australia in 2018.
ReplyDeleteScotland has previously hosted the Commonwealth Games twice, in 1970 and 1986, both in Edinburgh.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the Commonwealth Games have been going on for 84 years ; it began in 1930.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand has won 45 medals at Glasgow.
ReplyDeleteThe original commonwealth games had only 6 games and now it has 17 that is just crazy.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada where 11 countries were involved.
ReplyDeleteDid you know the commonwealth games has 17 sports such as ; Aquatics,Athletics,Badminton,Boxing,Cycling,Gymnastics ,Hockey,Judo,Lawn Bowls,Netball,Rugby,Shooting,Squash,Table Tennis,Triathlon,Weight Lifting and Wrestling .
ReplyDeleteUsain bolt ran 100m in 9.58 seconds.
ReplyDeleteSouth Africa handed New Zealand their first ever defeat in Commonwealth rugby sevens event.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand has won 14 gold 14 silver an 17 bronze with a total of 45 medals.
ReplyDeleteIn the first commonwealth games to be staged only 400 athletes from 11 countries took part.
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