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| | 2002 Commonwealth Games - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The sports featured in the Commonwealth Games typically follow the pattern set by the Summer Olympics: familiar events like athletics, swimming, weightlifting and wrestling pay tribute to the Olympian ideals of speed, strength and endurance. |
 | | Lawn bowling was, in fact, at the centre of the first Games held in Hamilton, Ont. in 1930, which also featured five other sports: athletics, boxing, rowing, aquatics and wrestling. |
 | | For most of their existence, the Commonwealth Games have been largely about the individual; only in 1998 did the Games open up significantly to team sports, and those who watched the action from Kuala Lumpur saw for the first time competitions in rugby, netball and field hockey. |
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