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	Commonwealth Games - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		The constituent parts of the United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — send separate teams to the Commonwealth Games, and individual teams are also sent from crown dependencies such as the Isle of Man and Jersey.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /commonwealth_games.htm (846 words)

	Commonwealth Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
		Attendance is typically around 5,000 athletes, which puts these games in third place behind the Olympics and the World Police and Fire 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commonwealth_Games (1086 words)

	Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1998 the Games were held for the first time in Asia, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		The Commonwealth Games have provided many memorable performances (10 world records were broken at Cardiff in 1958).
		At the XI Commonwealth Games (1978) in Edmonton, where 10 000 local volunteers assisted in the organization, Canada obtained an unprecedented 45 gold medals, 31 silver and 33 bronze, for a total of 109 (England was nearest with 27 gold and a total of 87).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001799 (489 words)

	Chambers the man for England. 26/7/2002. Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		England will also be looking towards capturing the 400 flat and 400 hurdles with Daniel Caines and Chris Rawlinson respectively.
		Australia may be lacking their icon Cathy Freeman for the individual event but the Games should reveal another Aussie female track star in world junior 400m and 400m hurdles champion Jana Pittman, who was the first woman athlete to achieve that golden double.
		The 19-year-old absolutely walloped two of her major rivals for the Commonwealth title, Jamaica's 1996 Olympic champion Deon Hemmings and Debbie-Ann Parris in the Paris Golden League meeting to give Australia real hope that Pittman may prove to be a Commonwealth goldmine.
	www.abc.net.au /commonwealthgames/items/s631845.htm (844 words)

	Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Organizers of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and the government are hopping right over the controversy of building a bridge through the Birrarung Marr park and holding a naming contest for the bridge.
	www.internationalgames.net /commonwe.htm (10085 words)

	Field Hockey Canada - 1998 Commonwealth Games - Women
		She was injured in the last 10 minutes of the game on a shot taken off the clavicle and shoulder, but she hung in there.
		England started out by putting us under heavy pressure, creating 3 penalty corners in the first 6 minutes, but our defense was up to the test.
		At 30:43, England again scored on a well taken, skillful play at the right side of our D. There was a slight mixup in the defense, but credit must also be given to the skill of the English forward.
	www.fieldhockey.ca /archives/teams/98cg/women.html (2545 words)

	CNN/SI - 1998 Commonwealth Games - England, Australia, India take golds at shooting - Sunday September 13, 1998 04:29 PM
		Posted: Sunday September 13, 1998 04:29 PM KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- India's Mansher Singh and Manavjit Singh won the men's pair trap competition, breaking an English and Australian monopoly on shooting gold medals at the Commonwealth Games Sunday.
		England's Nigel Wallace and Chris Hector won the men's pairs air rifle event with 1,173 points, seven ahead of Malaysia's Mutalib Abdul Razak and Mohd Emran Zakaria and 10 ahead of Scottish pair David Rattray and Robin Law.
		It was Trefry's fourth Commonwealth Games gold and Woodward's third as they finished ahead of New Zealand's Tania Corrigan and Jocelyn Lees by two points.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/1998/commonwealth/news/1998/09/13/shooting_wrap (467 words)

	XVI Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpur 98 Archives from Sadec.com
		A total of 70 countries from the Commonwealth participated in this 16th Commonwealth Games, making this the largest ever Commonwealth Games to be ever hosted, and one with full participation of the Commonwealth member countries.
		This is also the first Games to be hosted by an Asian country, and the second Games to be hosted by a developing country.
		The opening ceremony for the Kuala Lumpur 98 Games started with a big bang on 11 September 1998, with an equally resplendent closing ceremony officiated by HM Queen Elizabeth II on 21 September 1998.
	www.sadec.com /KL98/Pages (228 words)

	Commonwealth Games - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name in 1990.
		Medal counts in the Commonwealth Games tend to be heavily slanted towards the largest, industralized nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
		Flags and Emblems of the Commonwealth Games (http://www.kiwi-house.com/cg-flags/gamepage.htm) Evolution of the emblems of the Games
	www.free-definition.com /Commonwealth-Games.html (496 words)

	International Games News October 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Consistent with the pre-games form charts, Australia overwhelmed the competition at the sixteenth Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
		O'Neill had earned three golds at the Victoria Games and one gold in Auckland in 1990 to bring her all time record to ten Commonwealth gold medals, breaking the previous record of nine by Australian Mike Wenden.
		Kenyans swept the men's 5000 meters with Daniel Komen (13:22.57) Thomas Nyariki and Richard Limo and the 3000 meter steeplechase with John Kosgei (8:15:34), Bernard Barmasai and Kipkurui Misoi.
	www.internationalgames.net /october98.htm (374 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Commonwealth Games 2002Hockey \| Controversy mars England win
		Umpire Clive McMurray adjudged the Canadian goalkeeper Mike Mahood to have clashed sticks with one of the England players in the melee, even though it appeared that it was England's Mark Pearn who took a swipe at an opponent.
		Chances failed to come for an England side who looked far from a team capable of picking up a medal after they were beaten 3-0 by Pakistan in their opener.
		England's Brett Garrard then had his penalty corner saved, as did Jon Wyatt, but Wyatt was to enjoy better luck after the break.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/hockey/newsid_2157000/2157710.stm (427 words)

	2002 Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 Commonwealth Games1998 Games, Disabled sportsdisabled competitions/ were held in swimming, athletics, bowls, table tennis and weightlifting.
		Two seven minute periods of overtime were played, with the game becoming increasingly more frantic and scrappy as the score was levelled again at 55-all after overtime, with the situation that the first team to get two goals ahead won the game.
	www.infothis.com /find/2002_Commonwealth_Games (1413 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth was attained in 1948.
		In 1998, a new rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which sporadically flares up despite two peace agreements signed in 2002 and 2003 between the government and the rebels.
		In 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Botswanan military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community.
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html (16146 words)

	XVII Commonwealth Games - Manchester, England 2002
		Arrangements were made for some of the Commonwealth Games Team Members to stay in Lahti an extra day so that we would not exceed the accommodation restrictions of 18 days in England.
		A Commonwealth Games record was shot in the qualification round by Lalita Yauhleoskaya of Australia with 384.
		Dorothy became sick while she was in England and managed to pass this on to Kim who was her roommate, who, due to jet lag and being tired, was hit hard by the bug and spent a whole day in bed.
	www.targetshooting.ca /cwg2002_report_wh.htm (1536 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Commonwealth Games 2002 \| Netball \| England crush Canada
		England's netball team sent a warning to their rivals by thrashing Canada 87-26 in their opening game at the MEN Arena.
		England, who finished third at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and 1999 World Championships, raced into a 10-1 lead after just five minutes.
		England goal shooter Alex Astle said: "It was a good, solid performance.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/other_sports/netball/newsid_2153000/2153843.stm (364 words)

	Rugby Football Union - Mike Friday to coach England Sevens
		Both men will be involved in selecting the England sides for the remainder of the IRB World Sevens series which take place in Bordeaux next month and London.
		He brings considerable experience to the sevens post, having captained England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, captained England's 2001 World Cup Sevens team, before combining playing and coaching for England in their 2002 team.
		He was assistant sevens coach to Lydon for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the successful partnership continued through the 2003 and 2004 world sevens series, including victory for England in the prestigious Hong Kong tournament three years in a row.
	www.rfu.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.News_Detail/StoryID/6721 (456 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Special reports \| Manchester's big parade
		Manchester celebrated the opening of the Commonwealth Games last night with lights, fireworks, rappers, breakdancers, unashamed populism and a sequence of songs with cheerfully meaningless words.
		It began with a wallop on a big drum presented by Malaysia, host of the 1998 games, and ended with a three-minute pyrotechnic barrage which woke every dog and baby in nearby Gorton, Harpurhey and Openshaw.
		The England team included bowls player Ruth Small, who is blind and competes with the help of her husband.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /commonwealthgames2002/story/0,12238,763510,00.html (736 words)

	Australian Commonwealth Games Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The challenge will come from England which decided in 1997 that their number one objective at the 2002 Commonwealth Games is to TOP THE MEDAL TALLY, something England consistently did in the Games held prior to 1990 in Auckland.
		A number of the Commonwealth Games sports on the 2002 program were not provided with major funding in the years since 1996 as they were deemed to have lesser medal chances at the 2000 Olympic Games.
		At the 2000 Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly held at Rooty Hill during the Sydney Olympics, the membership agreed to adopt a new logo for the organisation.
	www.commonwealthgames.org.au /News/Newsletters/vol02no05.htm (3816 words)

	CNN/SI - 1998 Commonwealth Games - Malaysia, England win badminton team golds - Monday September 14, 1998 10:36 AM
		Posted: Monday September 14, 1998 10:36 AM KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Host Malaysia overpowered an English challenge and won the men's badminton team gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Monday.
		England won the women's gold medal by coming out atop a four-team round robin in the medals round.
		For England, Peter Knowles won a walkover against Choong tan Fook.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/1998/commonwealth/news/1998/09/14/badminton_wrap (398 words)

	England rugby news, commentary, fun, fixtures, results, downloads and features from Planet-Rugby.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mike Friday is to become the new full-time England Sevens coach, replacing Joe Lydon, who was recently 'promoted' to the senior England squad as one of Clive Woodward's assistant coaches.
		Both men will be involved in selecting the England sides for the remainder of the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens, which take place in Bordeaux next month and London.
		He was assistant Sevens coach to Lydon for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the successful partnership continued through the 2003 and 2004 IRB Sevens - including victory for England in the prestigious Hong Kong tournament three years in a row.
	www.planet-rugby.com /Teams/England/story_35859.shtml (494 words)

	Facts about the 1998 Commonwealth Games
		Each has an hour to wow the crowd and Queen Elizabeth, who officially will close the Games.
		1994 Games: Victoria hosted the Games and Canada won 128 medals, second to Australia.
		Canada is third all-time behind England and Australia.
	www.canoe.ca /SlamCommonwealth/facts.html (122 words)

	Commonwealth Games Medallists - Athletics (Men)
		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.
		A complete list of medallists in other sports is available in the Commonwealth Games section on this site.
	www.gbrathletics.com /ic/cg.htm (193 words)

	Hockey Australia - Tournaments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The semi finalists in the men's and women's Commonwealth Games hockey competition have been decided following an exciting day of competition at the Belle Vue Leisure Centre.
		In a rematch of the gold medal game at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, England will face the Hockeyroos after the English overwhelmed Scotland 6-1 in their elimination final.
		South Africa upset England 1-0 in the elimination phase to advance to the semi finals with a goal in the 29th minute to Emile Smith.
	www.hockey.org.au /news/view_article.asp?ContentID=656 (287 words)

	Kate Allenby
		She has long been at the forefront of the sport, winning two junior World Championship medals, the 1997 European title, 1998 World Cup final and Olympic bronze in Sydney.
		An engaging character with forthright opinions on the future of sport have made her one of the most liked and respected sportswomen resulting in her being voted onto the British Olympic Association’s executive committee.
		She was a member of the England team for the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
	www.cmmol.net /kate_allenby.htm (221 words)

	Rugby Football Union - Sevens - Quick Fire with Mike Friday
		They have been consistently strong over the past few seasons and are a very streetwise, intelligent and physical team.
		From a playing point of view it was captaining England in the 1998 Commonwealth Games and then the 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
		From a coaching point of view its having the opportunity to coach such a fantastic group of young England players.
	www.rfu.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/RFUHome.Sevens_Detail/StoryID/8810 (273 words)

	Commonwealth Games - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Attendance is typically around 5,000 athletes, which puts these games in third place behind the Olympics and the World Police & Fire Games.
		4.1 British Empire Games 4.2 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 4.3 British Commonwealth Games 4.4 Commonwealth Games
		Flags and Emblems of the Commonwealth Games (http://www.commonwealthgamesflags.com/) Evolution of the emblems of the Games
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Commonwealth_Games (934 words)

	1998 Commonwealth Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zeena McLaughlin (AUS) and Andrei Kravtsov (AUS) won the All Around titles at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia this month.
		Australia also won the Women's team while England won the Men's.
		The Canadian Men won their only gold on High Bar with a stellar performance from young Alexander Jeltkov (9.425).
	www.angelfire.com /wa/gymgraham/98Commomwealth.html (168 words)

	Badminton Central Discussion Forums - England in Commonwealth games
		Hi, I am trying to follow the Commonwealth Games 2002 individual badminton results for mens singles (which I am going to see the final of on Sunday), but I find it very hard to get decent results.
		I would like to know what stage England's men single's player is at?
		Englands men both out yesterday (Thurs) see the other thread, Vaughan still in..for now.
	www.badmintoncentral.com /vb/showthread.php?t=6524 (240 words)

	Mark Foster (1970-), Swimmer
		He first gained his senior cap in 1986 when he took part in the World Championships.
		Flag-bearer for England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
		The online database contains information on 64,720 works, 43,628 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp59503 (119 words)

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