Category: COMMONWEALTH
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Squash opening day at Commonwealth Games 2018
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast Australia, Apr 5, 2018: While the two reigning gold medallists eased into the third round of the Squash singles events at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, the opening day of action belonged to Jamaica after the Caribbean country’s only two male…
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GOLDOC statement following the withdrawal from competition of Sally PEARSON
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 4, 2018: A statement from Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) Chairman Peter Beattie AC and CEO Mark Peters, following the withdrawal from competition of Sally PEARSON (AUS). Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) Chairman Peter Beattie AC and CEO Mark…
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Flora Duffy claims gold at the Commonwealth Games
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 5, 2018: After a dominant race from beginning to end, Flora Duffy claimed the first gold medal of the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast and put temporarily her country on top of the medal table (Flora Duffy claims gold). Behind her,…
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Opening Ceremony: Speech from HRH The Prince of Wales
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast Australia, Apr 4, 2018: A transcript of the speech made by HRH The Prince of Wales at the Opening Ceremony of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Wednesday (4 April- opening ceremony speech hrh prince wales). Your Excellencies Prime Minister, Distinguished Guests, Ladies…
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Highlights to look out for on day one of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast Australia, Apr 04, 2018:Five highlights to look out for on day one of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Thursday 5 April (Chanu Saikhom MIRABAI). Bar belle Weightlifting, from 09:42 India’s Chanu Saikhom MIRABAI is the only 2017 weightlifting world champion at…
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Commonwealth “more relevant than ever before” says CGF President as XXI Commonwealth Games get underway on Australia’s Gold Coast
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 4, 2018: The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President, Louise Martin CBE declared the Commonwealth as “more relevant than ever before” as she spoke to a global TV audience of 1.5 billion people at the opening of the XXI Commonwealth Games on the…
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Teenage lifter TALIB (PAK) in record form in training
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 3, 2018: Pakistan weightlifter Talha TALIB has been in hot form at training, lifting more than the Commonwealth snatch record for 62kg men. TALIB raised 134kg during training at the Gold Coast Turf Club on Monday (2 April) – one kilogram better…
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Indian team doctor reprimanded over use of needles: CGF
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 3, 2018: Indian boxing team doctor Amol PATIL was “strongly reprimanded” by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Court today (Tuesday 3 April) for breaching the No Needle Policy and injecting an unnamed Indian team boxer with a vitamin B complex in the…
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GOLDOC suspends Australia’s Channel 9 accreditation
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 3, 2018: The organizers of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games have suspended the accreditation of a major Australian free-to-air television network after it broke news access rules and showed footage of the Opening Ceremony dress rehearsal on its prime-time news (Channel…
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Commonwealth Sports Universities Network launches on eve of XXI Commonwealth Games
The Olympics Sports team Abdul Rahim and Muhammad Sadiq Padela, Gold Coast, Australia, April 3, 2018: The Commonwealth Sports Universities Network (CSUN) celebrates its official launch on the Gold Coast, Australia today, on the eve of the Opening Ceremony for the XXI Commonwealth Games. The CGF partnered with Griffith University to debut the Network, which…