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	Commonwealth Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1911, the Festival of the Empire was held in London to celebrate the coronation of King George V.
		1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Cardiff, Wales
		Flags and Emblems of the Commonwealth Games Evolution of the emblems of the Games
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commonwealth_Games (1001 words)

	commonwealth games - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of The Commonwealth.
		Medal counts in the Commonwealth Games tend to be heavily slanted towards the largest, industralized nations such as Canada and Australia.
		1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Cardiff, Wales
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/commonwealth-games (755 words)

	Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name in 1990.
		Commonwealth Games Federation Official site offers the history of the Games, the role of the CGF and the nations and territories of the Commonwealth.
		Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland Latest news, press releases and results of the Games plus team profiles, event details and FAQ.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Commonwealth_Games.html (603 words)

	CFF - Championships
		The Commonwealth Championships is held every four years, in the same year as the Commonwealth Games, and is sanctioned by the Commonwealth Games Federation.
		One of the objectives of the Commonwealth Fencing Federation is to have Fencing included in the Commonwealth Games, but at present the event is run independently.
		British Commonwealth Games held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
	www.commonwealthfencing.org /events_championships.htm (1028 words)

	The Commonwealth Games
		The awarding of the Games to Vancouver, was the culmination of two years of very hard work by an enterprising group of Civic leaders spearheaded by then Mayor, Charles E. Thompson.
		The VI Games marked the largest sporting event ever held in Wales and it was the smallest Country ever to host a British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
		The Cardiff Games were to be South Africa's last until their post-apartheid return to the Games in 1994.
	www.youngcommonwealth.org /cw_text_only_version/ic_chap_02_p4.html (515 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Commonwealth Games
		The holding of the first recorded Games between Empire athletes coincided with the celebrations in connection with the Coronation of His Majesty King George the Fifth in 1911, and was known as the 'Festival of Empire'.
		The Games are also seen as 'friendly' as they are mostly staffed by trained volunteers, who are often just as excited to be there as the athletes and spectators.
		The British head of state is the head of the Commonwealth, and a few Commonwealth Countries still see the British head of state as their head of state.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1364717 (1431 words)

	Commonwealth Games - Manchester 2002
		The Games, held every four years, were first entitled the British Empire Games from 1930 - 1950 although, due to the Second World War, no Games were held in either 1942 or 1946.
		From 1954 -1966 the title changed to The British Empire and Commonwealth Games and then for two Games, 1970 and 1974 they were known as the British Commonwealth Games until the final name change in 1978 to the current title of The Commonwealth Games.
		In 1958 The British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Wales for the only time in their history.
	www.welshathletics.org /perform/2002cwg.htm (224 words)

	XVI Commonwealth Games - 08/09/1998
		Empire athletes who attended the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics felt the need for regular competition between the athletes of the empire’s nations and, fittingly, it was a Canadian, M. Robinson, who provided the impetus for the Hamilton Games.
		The Games have developed a friendly focus; they are competitive, but that competitiveness is between friends of the Commonwealth, unlike the Olympics, in which friendship gets a little lost because of their slightly more competitive edge.
		The Games are a wonderful opportunity for all the Australian athletes, whether they play one of the team sports included in the Games for the first time or whether they compete in a traditional sport such as swimming and athletics.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19980908071 (8102 words)

	Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ironically, with the Commonwealth Games being televised for the first time in the United States, Canadians are set to miss out because Canadian broadcasters, including the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) Canada's national network, have all so far passed on the games.
		Games organizers were heavily criticized in the last two years when they cleared over 1000 trees to make room for the Games village.
		Olympic and Commonwealth Games weightlifter Caroline Pileggi has been disqualified from the Olympic Games by Australian authorities for fleeing when drug testers came to the gym in Fiji where she was training.
	www.internationalgames.net /commonwe.htm (10892 words)

	2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games - G'DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Further, the Commonwealth has expanded from an initial fellowship of 11 nations in the early 1950's to a family of nations consisting of 71 nations and realms in 2005.
		Today the Commonwealth Games are a centrepiece of the many functions performed by the Commonwealth family of nations that continue to promote goodwill, removal of barriers and divisions, and the promotion of peace to all nations, that represent all continents and regions of the globe.
		Since 1930 the Empire Games have evolved and changed along with the evolution and changes that have occured within the former British Empire.
	www.geocities.com /m2006cg/thegames.html (1085 words)

	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the commonwealth Games in 1970, he picked up silver in the 4x400 metres event in Edinburgh, Scotland; and ended his athletic career with bronze in the 4x400 metres at the Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia.
		Later in the year, he represented the country at he Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, but was eliminated in the second round of both the 100 and 200 metre events.
		At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, Skinner placed eighth in the finals for the 400 metres, and was a member of the bronze medal-winning team in the 4x400-metre relay.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Sport/Sports_TTOlympicMedalists.html (1778 words)

	Delhi wins 2010 Commonwealth Games bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is thought to be the first time that two large games (other than the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games which are now awarded on the same day to the same city) have been given to a single nation on the same day.
		India's Commonwealth bid organizers had argued strongly for the past year that the games should go to new regions of the world, as opposed to being shared essentially by Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
		Hamilton, Canada, the other city in the running for the games, and the city where the first Commonwealth Games (then known as the British Empire Games) were held, was hoping that nostalgia, and an argument that Canada could simply organize the games more efficiently and safely, would win the bid.
	www.internationalgames.net /news/1103/035.htm (241 words)

	Schenker Canada: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For years later, sports enthusiasts throughout the British Empire laboured to promote a modern sport spectacle, however it wasn't until the late 1920s when that dream came to fruition.
		The Games have always been open to every country in the Commonwealth and the spirit of friendship has inspired what is known as the "Friendly Games".
		The most significant multi-sport event to be held in the UK since the 1948 Olympics, it was the largest ever Commonwealth Games with approximately 5,250 athletes from 72 nations competing in 14 individual sports and three team sports from July 25 - August 4, 2002.
	www.schenker.ca /prs111202man.html (514 words)

	McGill Athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Selected twice as amateur athlete of the year by the Montreal Sportsman Association (1958 and 1959), Grout swam for Canada at the 1960 Rome Olympics, where he finished fourth in the 4x100m medley relay and also swam in the 200m butterfly and 100m freestyle.
		At the PanAm Games in 1959, he won silver in the 400m medley relay and bronze in the 800m freestyle relay.
		At the 1958 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, he won silver in the 4x110 medley relay and bronze in the 4x220 freestyle relay.
	www.athletics.mcgill.ca /main_halloffame_search.ch2?varsitysport_id=15 (800 words)

	Commonwealth Games Medallists - Athletics (Men)
		A "Festival of the Empire" celebrating the coronation of King George V was held at Crystal Palace in London (ENG) in 1911.
		The first British Empire Games was held in 1930.
		The event was retitled British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and Commonwealth Games in 1978.
	www.gbrathletics.com /ic/cg.htm (193 words)

	History
		At the announcement in 1964 that Scotland would host the Commonwealth Games in 1970, all the diving fraternity were excited by the prospect of a new pool with state of the art facilities which would be ready by early 1970.
		With the Commonwealth Games returning to Edinburgh in 1986, the year of 1985 saw a concerted effort in learning the big dives so necessary to achieve a place in the Games team.
		During the 1989 season, the focus was on the 1990 Commonwealth Games to be staged in Auckland, New Zealand.
	www.edinburghdivingclub.org.uk /info/history.html (3120 words)

	Famous New Zealanders - New Zealand in History
		In 1930 the first full Commonwealth sport event named the "Empire Games", and was held in Ontario, Canada.
		In 1958 the "British Empire and Commonwealth Games" became the "British Commonwealth Games", held in Cardiff.
		Finally, in 1974 the "British Commonwealth Games" became the "Commonwealth Games", held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
	history-nz.org /famous.html (280 words)

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		In winning The Bahamas its first track and field gold and silver medals at the Commonwealth Games during the 50's and 60's, local track and field icon, Thomas "Tommy" Robinson, said he was disappointed that he never won an Olympic medal.
		Known to the British press as "Thomas Augustus, Emperor of Speed," and to the Michigan, USA, press as the "Bahama Bullet," Robinson said he wished he had an Olympic medal to add to his list of athletic accomplishments.
		In 1958, at the then-called British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he clinched a gold medal in the 220 yard dash, and a silver medal in the 100 yard dash.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /print/283797381980739.php (345 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		One of the criticisms of Radcliffe’s attempt at the double is that women’s 10,000m running is too competitive and that it might compromise her chances at the marathon.
		Jim Alder is another double medalist at the Commonwealth Games, having won a bronze at the 6 Miles, five days before winning the Marathon in 1966.
		Also at the Commonwealth Games, Gidemas Shahanga, who won the marathon in the 1978, also won the 10,000m and finished sixth at the marathon in 1982.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=30844,printer.html (926 words)

	Les Mills - TheBestLinks.com - Auckland, New Zealand, Olympic Games, Papua New Guinea, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He represented New Zealand at Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games over two decades.
		At the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he achieved his best result, a gold medal in Discus.
		Athletics Career: 1952: Wins New Zealand Junior Shot and Discus 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games: Discus, Silver Medal 1960 Summer Olympics: Captain and Flagbearer for the New Zealand Team.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Les_Mills.html (272 words)

	XVI Commonwealth Games 98 Kuala Lumpur
		The Commonwealth is a free association of 53 sovereign independent states and their dependencies, which has evolved from the former British Empire (although Mozambique, a Commonwealth member since November 1995, was not a part of the former British Empire).
		Assistance to other Commonwealth countries usually figures prominently in the aid programmes of the association's developed members, who direct some 30% of their aid to other member countries, complemented by humanitarian and technical assistance.
		The official mascot for the 1998 XVI Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lummpur is Wira the Orang Utan.
	www.commonwealthgames98.com /trivia/general.html (902 words)

	Gibbons Stamp Monthly - Current industry news and reports
		A similar view was shown on the £2 issued by British Indian Ocean Territory to mark the 50th anniversary of the Coronation in 2003.
		While at Cheam School, Charles was allowed to listen to the closing ceremony of the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.
		Hopefully it is not too churlish to mention that her greatgrandmother, Alice Keppel, has appeared on a British stamp, one of the Greetings stamps of 1995 with their theme of ‘Greetings in Art’.
	www.gibbonsstampmonthly.com /storyprint.asp?sc=1960 (2572 words)

	Commonwealth Games Medallists
		A "Festival of the Empire" celebrating the coronation of King George V was held at Crystal Palace, London in 1911.
		The first British Empire Games was held in 1930 and retitled British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and Commonwealth Games in 1978.
		Since 1990 silver and/or bronze medals may not have been awarded where a small number of competitors/teams started an event, however the first three placings are still listed for the record.
	www.gbrathletics.com /commonwealth (163 words)

	TKI - TKI Hot Topic
		This year, the Commonwealth Games are being held in Manchester, England.
		The idea for a Commonwealth sports competition was first suggested in 1891 to promote goodwill and understanding throughout the British Empire.
		In 1911, the Games were known as the “Festival of Empire”, changing to the British Empire Games (1930–1950), then the British Empire and Commonwealth Games (1954–1966), the British Commonwealth Games (1970–1974), and finally the Commonwealth Games (1978–present).
	www.tki.org.nz /r/hot_topics/commonwealthgames_e.php (814 words)

	Swim Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The building of the Wales Empire Pool at Cardiff for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games supplied an impetus so urgently needed by the sport in the Principality, which resulted in many more clubs being formed.
		The Commonwealth Games Council for Wales has announced the swimmers to be invited to take their seats on the Melbourne-bound plane for the 2006 Commonwealth Games (15-26 March 2006).
		For those yet to get all the swim tickets they want for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne next March, a new allocation of seats for finals at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre go on sale next Monday, January 23, at 9am, Australia time.
	www.welshasa.co.uk /about_us.asp (634 words)

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