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	Commonwealth Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations.
		Nigeria boycotted the 1978 Games in protest of New Zealand's sporting contacts with apartheid-era South Africa, and 32 of 59 nations from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean boycotted the 1986 Games due to the Thatcher government's attitude to South African sporting contacts.
		Flags and Emblems of the Commonwealth Games Evolution of the emblems of the Games
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commonwealth_Games (1001 words)

	Encyclopedia: Commonwealth Games
		The Empire Games flag was donated in 1930 by the British Empire Games Association of Canada the year and location of subsequent games were added until the 1950 games after which the name of the event was changed to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the flag retired.
		The XVII Games as a world-class event and the most significant multi-sport event to be held in the United Kingdom since the 1948 Summer Olympics.
		After experimenting with it on a smaller scale at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and dropping it at the 1998 Games, disabled competitions were held in swimming, athletics, bowls, table tennis and weightlifting (powerlifting).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Commonwealth-Games (1188 words)

	Commonwealth Games
		Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of The Commonwealth.
		The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name in 1990.
		As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls and netball.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/commonwealth_games.html (176 words)

	Staff
		She was employed by the British Olympic Association from 1972 to 1994 when she left to establish a separate office and full-time administration for the Commonwealth Games Council for England in light of the increased workload that the award of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester would bring.
		Ann has worked at 8 Commonwealth Games, 7 as a member of Team England's HQ staff and once, in 1982, as a member of the CGF's staff.
		She was the first woman to be appointed as a General Team Manager of Team England undertaking the role for the first time at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and then again in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
	www.cgce.co.uk /staff.html (519 words)

	Commonwealth Games Association Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Following the successful Victoria delegation to the Commonwealth Games Federation in 1988, the XV Games were held in Canada for the fourth time.
		The end of apartheid in the early part of the decade also heralded the return of South Africa to the Commonwealth Games and ensured that the era of threatened boycotts was over.
		Sixty-three nations sent a total of nearly 2,450 athletes and 892 officials as the Commonwealth Games burgeoned at Victoria.
	www.cgaj.org /1994.html (186 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Athletics: Final fling for Denmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Among the high points of a long and illustrious career was the gold medal he won over 5,000m at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.
		The first athletics gold medal of the Games will be decided in the women's hammer, in which England's Lorraine Shaw will have her work cut out to match the silver she won in Kuala Lumpur.
		She has had an exceptional build-up to the Games, breaking the 6,000-point barrier for the first time in May and then finishing fifth with a personal best of 6,135 points in the prestigious Gotzis meeting for multi-events in Austria.
	sport.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=B&xml=/sport/2002/07/26/socden26.xml (492 words)

	PacificSport National Swim Centre Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Centre is headquartered at Saanich Commonwealth Place Aquatic Centre, a world class training facility that is a legacy from the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
		Built for the 1994 Commonwealth Games, Saanich Commonwealth pool is proven as a world class training and racing facility.
		At the Commonwealth Games in 1994, Australia's Kieran Perkins broke the world record for both the 800 and 1500 freestyle.
	www.pacificsportswimming.ca /services/facilities.htm (360 words)

	Sport New Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ottawa, December 3, 2003 - Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Ross Outerbridge of Kamloops has been selected as the Chef de Mission for the 2006 Commonwealth Games to be held in Melbourne, Australia.
		He was a physician at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, BC and has over 20 years of games experience as a physician for Water Ski Canada.
		Commonwealth Games Canada is a national not-for-profit association that strengthens sport within Canada and throughout the Commonwealth by participation in the Commonwealth Games and by using sport as a development tool.
	www.sport.nb.ca /snb/en/news/show_article_print_friendly.aspx?ID=98 (352 words)

	International Games News March 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Asian Games preparations were given a favorable report by delegates of the Olympic Council of Asia this month.
		This is very good news for the Bangkok games which had been far behind in their preparations last year and were in danger of losing the games.
		Richard de Groen, New Zealand's Commonwealth Games team manager gave mixed reviews on the preparations for this years Commonwealth Games to be held in Kuala Lumpur in September.
	www.internationalgames.net /mar98news.htm (376 words)

	Commonwealth Games 2010 In New Delhi \|\| INDIA & THE GAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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 Cardiff Games were to be South Africa’s last until their post-apartheid return to the Games in 1994.
		The XIV Commonwealth Games, the third to be hosted by New Zealand and Auckland’s second, witnessed a fantastic opening ceremony comprising a magnificent and moving portrayal of the forces that led to the formation of New Zealand society and culture.
	www.cwgdelhi2010.com /story/2004/8/24/22186/8813 (2658 words)

	BC Games - Host Cities - BC Summer Games
		The BC Summer Games are the heat of competition, and the warmth of a host community’s hospitality.
		With more competitors than the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, it is up to the team of host volunteers to ensure that everything runs smoothly--from the lighting of the Games torch to the medal presentations and the closing ceremonies.
		Competition may be the backbone of the Games, but at its heart are camaraderie and friendship, the spirit of teamwork and the setting of goals for individual excellence.
	www.bcgames.org /host_cities_summer_games.html (200 words)

	Book Review The Commonwealth Games The First 60 Years 1930-1990 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth Games - The First 60 Years 1930-1990 was released for publication in time for the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.
		Covering one games per chapter Dheensaw covers the setting, such as the background and current climate of the Commonwealth at the time, and events themselves.
		This is a friendly book, written in a friendly way, about the "Friendly Games." You'll feel good reading some of the fascinating accounts of events, but Dheensaw does not shy away from some of the troubles of the games, most notably the issue of South African apartheid that plagued the games for so long.
	www.internationalgames.net /BookReviews/brcommonwealthdheensaw.htm (379 words)

	Athletics Australia - News & Media - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However, the Australian Commonwealth Games Association agreed with Athletics Australia to modify the criteria to allow for athletes selected in the team to be entered in an individual event where places exist.
		Then in May 2002 she announced she wouldn't be running in Europe or seeking individual selection for the Commonwealth Games as her then husband was diagnosed with cancer [in his mouth] and she wanted to stay by his side.
		At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, she took her first victory lap with the Aboriginal flag before taking another one with the Australian flag, igniting much discussion and raising awareness regarding Aboriginal and race relations.
	www.athletics.org.au /news/details.cfm?ObjectID=1692 (1353 words)

	C'wealth Games will be Freeman's swansong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Games officials announced at a function that Freeman, who lives in Melbourne, would be the promotional face of the competition which starts in exactly three years' time.
		Australia's first Aboriginal track and field Olympic athlete at the 1992 Barcelona Games, Freeman had made her international debut at Auckland as a 4x100 metres relay gold medallist.
		Freeman, who won 200 and 400 metres gold medals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, won 400 metres world titles in 1997 and 1999 and will seek a third world title in Paris in August.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/mar/15freeman.htm (432 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Athlete Profiles - Stuart O'Grady (Cycling)
		He looked set for gold in the time trial at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur but a crash on a corner scuppered his chances.
		The injuries he sustained in that fall, which were mostly cuts and bruises, kept him from completing his program at the Games.
		At the 1995 World Championships he was again part of Australia’s gold-medal winning teams pursuit team and won a bronze medal in the individual pursuit event, despite collapsing due to illness at the end of his qualifying ride.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/2000/profiles/STUARTOGRADY.htm (921 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Athlete Profiles - Hayley Lewis (Swimming)
		As the Sydney Games approached, that competitive spirit burst into flame, and she decided to attempt a comeback.
		A decade ago she was the sweetheart of the nation when she won an amazing five gold medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
		The medal winning performances didn’t dry up as a result - she won two gold, two silver and a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria and a silver medal at the World Championships in Rome the same year - but the performances seemed that little bit more laboured.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/2000/profiles/HAYLEYLEWIS.htm (971 words)

	UPDATE - COL - March 1994 - August 1994 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Commonwealth, and especially Commonwealth Africa, will be significantly enriched by South African participation in co-operative programmes and, it is hoped, that the Commonwealth and COL will continue to make important contributions to human resource development in the new South Africa.
		In 1994, COL further enhanced the communications and computer configuration at its headquarters in Vancouver to provide a hubbing function into the Internet in order to provide sites, which are underserved by conventional means, the opportunity to link with the Internet through COL.
		Commonwealth Educational Media Co-operative for Asia (CEMCA): The Commonwealth* Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) was formally established on July 1, 1994* at the Indira Gandhi National Open University and Mr.
	www.col.org /9410updt.htm (12357 words)

	the great outdoors
		At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada Australia topped the medal tally with a total of 183 medals - 87 gold, 53 silver and 43 bronze.
		The 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was another great games for Australia and once again we scooped the medal pool bringing home a total of 198 medals - 80 gold, 61 silver and 57 bronze.
		Tune into the Channel Seven at 7.30pm on July 26 for the opening Opening Ceremony of the XVII Commonwealth Games it promises to be a spectacular event to compare with similar efforts at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
	thegreatoutdoors.com.au /general.php?ID=1932 (333 words)

	Sport \| Whitlock and Wilkins face drug bans on eve of games
		On the eve of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, the biggest event to be held in Britain since 1948, UK Athletics was forced to admit that two British record-holders had tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.
		The news is set to overshadow the build-up to the games and brings back memories of when England sent home Diane Modahl and Paul Edwards from the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria after they had tested positive for drugs, although Modahl was later cleared.
		She had established herself as the favourite during the Commonwealth trials in Manchester on June 16 when she jumped 4.41 metres, the 36th British record of her career, in the process beating Australia's Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4461403-108365,00.html (889 words)

	Australian Commonwealth Games Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Swimmers Susan O'Neill OAM and Ian Thorpe won 6 gold medals at the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games and the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, respectively.
		Dorothy Roche OAM, was 61 years and 10 months old when she won a gold medal in the women's fours in Bowls at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games.
		Jenny Turrell was 13 years and 8 months old when she won a gold medal in the 400 metres Freestyle Swimming at the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games.
	www.commonwealthgames.org.au /GamesInfo/General/AustHighAchievers.htm (347 words)

	Manchester City Council: Lessons Learned from the Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Stronger support from the Commonwealth Games Federation in obtaining information from Commonwealth Games Associations and in raising the profile of the Games with Governments of the Commonwealth and International Sports Federations would be of considerable benefit to Organising Committees
		Detailed planning was undertaken by individual functional areas and by venues, which led to some functional areas planning scope and service levels which were higher than the agreed strategy and certain deliverables not being sufficiently tailored to suit the needs of each venue.
		Commonwealth Games Associations submissions of athlete numbers six months out and thirty days out differed significantly.
	www.manchester.gov.uk /corporate/games/lessons/experience.htm (1190 words)

	Australian Commonwealth Games Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) announced today that Thomas will be the General Manager of the Australian team at the Games – heading the Australian delegation that will compete in 10 sports against athletes from 24 Commonwealth countries.
		It was an event she continued to dominate at the 1998 and 2002 Commonwealth Games and fittingly it also produced her first individual Olmypic gold medal following a memorable 100m butterfly swim in Athens.
		The Commonwealth Youth Games will be the largest ever international multi-sport event for youth to be staged in a regional Australian city.
	www.commonwealthgames.org.au /News/MediaReleases/2004_10_03.htm (467 words)

	City of Victoria - Victoria Commonwealth Games Society Fonds - Publications Listed by Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Notes on Authors: "[General]" means issued by the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society as a whole; "[Unidentified]" means issued by an unidentified external organization.
		Analysis of the structure and process of staging the 1994 Commonwealth Games / Postle, Byron.
		Billion-dollar games : Jean Drapeau and the 1976 Olympics / Auf der Maur, Nick.
	www.city.victoria.bc.ca /archives/archives_prvrec_vcgs5_xpubs_title_a-cam.shtml (1140 words)

	COL NEWS RELEASE - Commonwealth organisations to provide coaching material (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		VANCOUVER - The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada (CGAC) and the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) have agreed to cooperate in providing audio-visual material for use in the training of athletes and sports coaches within the Commonwealth.
		Marking the holding of the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, this continuing, cooperative effort of sports and educational organizations is intended to enhance performance levels and to promote excellence in athletic achievement throughout the Commonwealth.
		The Commonwealth of Learning is an international organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their Vancouver Summit and is mandated to conduct distance education and training internationally.
	www.col.org /new_4.htm (394 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)

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