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	2006 Commonwealth Games at AllExperts
		The Games were opened by Queen Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Head of the Commonwealth.
		On 20 March 2006 it was reported that two athletes had gone missing from the Commonwealth Games village: Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and Bangladeshi runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam.
		These incidents were not without precedence: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England (21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan), and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/2006_commonwealth_games.htm (2994 words)

	Athletics Australia - Inspiring performances highlight 2006 for Australian Athletics
		Speaking at the Annual General Meeting of Athletics Australia in Melbourne, Fildes acknowledged a huge amount or work remained to be completed but said the inspiring performances of Australiaâs athletes during 2006 was the undisputed feature of a year marked by continued reform and a return to financial stability.
		The athletics contingent of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games team numbered 122 athletes â“ the largest Australian track and field team ever where the average age of the team was 25.
		This is not the case in athletics and we are continually reminded of the need to provide more and more resources to keep pace with the rest of the world.
	www.athletics.com.au /community/news/athletics_australia_agm (1282 words)

	Golden smiles, broken heart - Athletics - Commonwealth Games - theage.com.au
		Athletics' man of the moment, John Steffensen, won his second gold medal, leading the Australian 4 x 400 metres relay team to victory.
		It was an appropriately controversial conclusion to an incident-packed night on which athletics came to resemble a demolition derby.
		At the end of it all, wonder of wonders, the duelling duo of Jana Pittman and Tamsyn Lewis were united in victory, gold medals around their necks.
	www.theage.com.au /news/athletics/golden-smiles-broken-heart/2006/03/25/1143084057570.html (1389 words)

	Australia: 2006 Commonwealth Games Selection Policy Announced - Time-to-Run News section - Headline and Site news
		Athletics Australia and the Australian Commonwealth Games Association are pleased to announce the
		The Melbourne Commonwealth Games, will be the biggest sporting event in Australia since the Sydney Olympics and the Rugby World Cup and track and field will be one of the showcase events.
		Australia’s previous largest team was 86 for the Auckland Commonwealth Games, while other home games have had team sizes of 86 (1962-Perth), 75 (1938-Sydney) and 74 (1982-Brisbane).
	www.time-to-run.com /news/2005/april-june/070405aus.htm (320 words)

	Commonwealth Games 2006
		Victoria's number one existing athletics facility, Olympic Park, is located within the sports precinct near the MCG making it the perfect venue for both training and warm-up.
		The 2006 Games will be the historical debut of this sport into the Commonwealth Games.
		The State Netball Hockey Centre is located Close to the Commonwealth Games Village, this venue includes a five-court indoor stadium designed for international competition.
	www.travelplaces.co.uk /commonwealth-sports-venues.htm (1972 words)

	Wentworth Institute of Technology: Athletics > Varsity Sports > Baseball (M)
		Losing the next five games, including four to conference foes, put the Leopards’ playoff chances further away, and after being swept by Roger Williams and splitting with Nichols (including dropping the second game in extra innings), eliminated Wentworth from the post-season.
		In a span of 11 games, he batted.500 (21-for-42) to raise his average from.290 to.360 and would earn Second Team All-CCC Honors, as well as being named the CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
		In 111 career games (102 starts) for the Leopards, Moyen wraps up his career batting.322 (109-for-338) with 19 doubles, nine triples, four home runs, 50 stolen bases, 70 runs scored, and 44 runs batted in.
	www.wit.edu /Athletics/varsity/baseball/baseball.html (1414 words)

	Commonwealth Games
		This is the Australian Commonwealth Games Association site, which is the official source for information regarding Australia's participation in past and future Commonwealth Games.
		This is a webquest based project for children throughout the Commonwealth.
		It uses Karak, the mascot for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, as a central motif and motivates children to investigate a local endangered species and to develop an action plan to ensure its survival.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /jmresources/commonwealth/games.html (1046 words)

	2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
		Kaisey Griffith, student, competed at the 2005 Island Games in Shetland Isles, Scotland, and was Overall Champion at the Games.
		He has competed in the 1990, (also competing in these games was his mother) 1994 (swimming) and 2002 (cycling) Commonwealth Games, as well as the 1992 Olympic Games and 2005 Island Games where he placed 1st in the road race.
		She has competed at the Commonwealth Games 2002, Pan American Games 2003, Island Games in Guernsey, Caribbean Championships and World B Championships, and was Bermuda's National Champion in Road Race and Time Trial in 2005.
	www.olympics.bm /commonwealth2006games.htm (1752 words)

	Host: Host countries and cities of the Commonwealth Games
		the 2006 Games in Melbourne is estimated to cost approximately $300m to organise not including the construction cost of facilities, compare to $30,000 to stage the first Games in Hamilton.
		There are 71 nations in the Commonwealth (see countries list), representing over a third of the world’s population.
		The Games Village is traditionally open for a total of 25 days, starting 10 days before the Opening Ceremony to allow athletes the necessary time to acclimatise and adjust to their surrounds before they compete.
	www.topendsports.com /events/commonwealth-games/hosts/melbourne-2006/melbourne.htm (542 words)

	Australia: Athletics Returns to the MCG this Friday - News section - Time-to-Run - Headline and Site news
		Commencing on Friday, 1340 athletes, made up of grassroots athletics participants from each Australian State and Territory, combined with the majority of the 123-member Australian team that will compete at the MCG in a month’s time, along with 81 international visitors from 14 countries, will be in action.
		The Australian athletics team for the Commonwealth Games arrives in Melbourne on Thursday for a four-day Home Ground Advantage camp, and will assemble at Olympic Park on Thursday afternoon to begin their final countdown to the Games.
		The Victorian Championships have inspired former champions to leap from the comfort of the couch including Commonwealth champions Steve Moneghetti (5000m), Tim Forsyth (high jump), Nova Batman (nee Peris – 100m) and Sean Carlin (hammer) who are all entered to compete.
	www.time-to-run.com /news/2006/jan-mar/130206aus.htm (545 words)

	IOL: Athletics
		Asian Games silver medallist Santhi Soundarajan is to be stripped of her medal after failing a gender test.
		The Asian Games athletics programme is in danger of being doomed to a series of starless nights after the withdrawals of two-time world champion Saif Saaeed Shaheen and Olympic champion Koji Murofushi.
		Germany's Athletics Federation is investigating Nils Schumann, the Olympic 800m champion in 2000, and former European 400m champion Grit Breuer for suspected violation of doping rules.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=6&click_id=174 (1242 words)

	Athletics Alberta: Provincial organizing body for track and field, cross country and road running
		Jan 30/06 — It was time for celebration and optimism at the Edmonton Petroleum Club last Saturday, as Athletics Alberta held its annual Awards Banquet.
		The event was an opportunity to both highlight the accomplishments of the athletes, coaches and officials involved in the sport, and raise Athletics Alberta's profile in the community...
		Athletics Canada announces selection criteria for the 2006 NACAC Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	athleticsalberta.com (260 words)

	Athletics supremo hits back-Sport-TimesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Geoff Wightman, the man in charge of Scottish athletics, just about avoided reaching for that stock phrase last Friday, but that was his rationale when it came to defending his sport from the unprecedented attack put its way since Melbourne.
		A mere two athletics medals at the Commonwealth Games, the same low number as in Manchester four years previously, has prompted the suggestion that athletics has not merely lost its way, but doesn’t even know where it is supposed to be headed.
		The departing Harrison branded athletics as “lacking in vision and ambition” and having “a certain arrogance” during Melbourne and was no less dismissive on her return.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/sport/article671567.ece (1022 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Kenya prepares for next year's Australia Commonwealth Games
		Kenya's athletics trial is to begin on Saturday in Thika, about 40-km north of Nairobi, to prepare the team for the next year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, athletics officials said here Friday.
		Athletes from the country's armed forces, prisons, police and the provinces are expected at the Thika event which will act as a build-up for the games which will be held between March 15 to 26 next year.
		He said the event is also expected to produce surprises as new athletes are expected to try to steal the show by aiming to meet the Melbourne qualifying standards.
	english.people.com.cn /200511/05/eng20051105_219237.html (269 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Powell, Simpson head field for RJR Sports Foundation awards - Tuesday \| January 23, 2007
		Christopher Gayle, who scored three centuries for the West Indies during the ICC Champions Trophy tournament, a mini World Cup, and Brigitte Foster-Hylton, who broke the Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles record on her way to the gold medal, along with her World Cup victory, are other prime nominees.
		Apart from the major awards, the top persons in all 14 sporting disciplines will be rewarded while some 22 individuals who were not among those nominated, will also be given awards for their achievements during the year.
		Athletes who won medals at major games last year, including Delloreen Ennis-London, Kemel Thompson and Christopher Williams, all bronze medallists from the Commonwealth Games, Ricardo Chambers and Ricardo Williams, both gold medallist from the CAC Games, will be recognised.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20070123/sports/sports2.html (340 words)

	Weston Creek Athletics Club - Results - World Championship A Qualifiers for Corrigan and Dent - News
		Weston Creek, ACT and Commonwealth Games representative Lisa Corrigan continued her impressive form to win the 800m at the Canberra Telstra-A Series yesterday.
		Weston Creek's Commonwealth Games 1500m representative, Lisa Corrigan, continued her top form, after beating Tamsyn Lewis last weekend in the 800m, to win the 1500m at the Australia Cup State Match in a new personal best time of 4:08.72.
		Weston Creek Athletics Club athlete and Commonwealth Games representative Martin Dent was too strong in sweltering conditions to win the senior men's 8km WXC Selection Trial at Weston Park.
	westoncreekathletics.org.au (1229 words)

	Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited Sport
		The Commonwealth Games is an opportunity for athletes to learn how it feels to line up with big medals at stake and to succeed, says Richard Williams.
		England's women were stripped of 4x400m relay gold but Britain's boxers enjoyed a successful end to the Commonwealth Games.
		The future for British athletics looks bleak in the wake of the English 4x100 metres relay fiasco and the prospect of the worst ever British medal haul.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /commonwealthgames2006/0,,1725562,00.html (617 words)

	Australia to top athletics table - Athletics - Commonwealth Games - smh.com.au
		Australia's athletics team enters the final day of Commonwealth Games competition looking to extend its comfortable lead on the medal tally at the MCG.
		Australia last won the athletics medals race in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 but England took the honours in Manchester four years ago when it took 12 gold, three more than Australia.
		The MCG crowd's best chance for an individual gold tonight is Craig Mottram who starts as the fastest qualifier in the 1500m after a commanding heat win last night.
	www.smh.com.au /news/athletics/australia-to-top-athletics-table/2006/03/25/1143084025719.html (262 words)

	Commonwealth Games Online
		The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
		It was not until the 1978 Games in Edmonton that they were known as the Commonwealth Games.
		It would be possible to establish a base in some of these regional centres and still take in the games.
	www.commonwealthgamesonline.info (274 words)

	New Zealanders at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
		Coverage of athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne - 19-25 March 2006.
		Kate McIlroy ran a PB and set a new NZ record in the 3k Steeplechase, finishing 5th in the straight final.
		Jane Arnott finished 4th in her 400m semi and was unable to progress to the final.
	www.coolrunning.co.nz /news/2006n003.html (867 words)

	AthleticsAfrica.Com - Jepkosgei beats Mutola again
		The Kenyan inflicted her third defeat over Mutola this year at the 15th African Athletics Championships in Bambous, Mauritius.
		Jepkosgei Busienei overtook Mutola with 30 metres to go to finish in 2:00.64 after much work has been done by her compatriot Josephine Nyarunda who set a fast pace to fats for the competition to cope with.
		Mutola, fondly called the 'Maputo Express', settled for silver just like she did at the Commonwealth games in March in 2:01.08 with Algeria’s Nouria Benida Merah claiming bronze in 2:02.18.
	www.athleticsafrica.com /Outgoing/mauritiusjepkosgei_ns_140806.html (209 words)

	The Hindu : Sport / Athletics : Asian Games build-up begins for athletes
		The Doha Asian Games are not far away and it is time for the athletes to come out of the mediocre rut and post some top marks on the board.
		Seema had a season best 60.56m for the silver in the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in March, but an unspecified illness kept her out of the first two legs of the Asian Grand Prix in May before she took the third place in the last leg at Pune with a run-of-the-mill 50.89m.
		A partial prelude to the Asian Games shot put competition, minus the Asian champion Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi of Qatar and the leading Asian this season, Saudi Arabian Sultan Mubarak Al-Hebshi (20.04), can be had here since Chinese Zhang Qi will be clashing for the fourth time this season with Navpreet.
	www.hindu.com /2006/09/29/stories/2006092901822100.htm (618 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Madrid - An IAAF delegation, led by President Lamine Diack, is participating in “Sportaccord”, the first ever international sports convention to bring together representatives of GAISF (General Association of International Sports Federations), ASOIF (Association of Summer Olympic International Federations), AIOWF (Association of Olympic Winter Sport Federations) and ARISF (Association of IOC recognised International Federations).
		In a separate meeting on Thursday, it was agreed that the athletics programme of the 2006 Commonwealth Games will take place from 20-25 March in Melbourne.
		Athletics will now be the climax of the Commonwealth Games and we all hope that Melbourne will be able to match the sold out crowds, and marvellous atmosphere, of the Sydney Olympic Stadium.”
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=512/newsId=21174.html (771 words)

	::: Commonwealth Games Federation :::
		The Australian city of Melbourne, successfully hosted the XVIII Commonwealth Games between the 15 and 26 March 2006.
		Whilst Bendigo, the venue for the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, and Lilydale hosted two of the shooting disciplines the majority of the sports venues were located along the Yarra River and within the city precinct.
		The Opening and Closing ceremonies as well as the athletics competition took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), one of the world's largest and most outstanding outdoor sporting grounds.
	www.thecgf.com /games/2006.asp (191 words)

	Commonwealth Youth Games 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The second Commonwealth Youth Games will see talented youngsters from 24 countries compete in 10 different sports in a six-day competition.
		The games were first held in Edinburgh in 200 and were such a success it was decided to hold them every four years.
		For many of the athletes – all aged under 18, it will be their first experience of an international-multi-sport event.
	www.sportengland.org /index/news_and_media/commonwealth_youth_games_2004.htm (215 words)

	Obituary for Bobby Rea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Over recent years he was the driving force in setting up Abbey Athletic Club and was instrumental in the club becoming a major force in local athletics- only recently winning the NI Junior Cross Country title and the women’s section of the All Ireland Track and Field League for the past two seasons.
		He acted as manager for many NI Cross Country and Track and Field teams, culminating in his role as manager of the Athletics team at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne last March.
		His drive and enthusiasm for all aspects of athletics will be a great loss and he will be very sorely missed at all levels as a coach, administrator and event organiser.
	www.ukathletics.net /press-centre/news-archive/september/article-122 (310 words)

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