India shows how it’s done!
India just showed the sporting world the way forward to address the problem of increasing costs involved while hosting a multi-sport event, like the Olympics or the Commonwealth Games (CWG). The CGF’s acceptance of India’s offer to host shooting and archery championships provides an interesting solution to ‘financial issues’ faced by the organisers as it could work as a ‘creative and feasible’ co-hosting model for awarding future major sporting events.
A move to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games archery and shooting competitions in India, six months before Birmingham hosts the rest of the Games, has been approved.
The Commonwealth Games Federation announced on Monday that the competitions would take place in Chandigarh in January of that year, with the main Games in Birmingham starting in July.
The CGF said the event in India and the main Games in Birmingham would be separately organised and funded, but said that a week after the Birmingham closing ceremony it would issue a medal table including the Chandigarh results ‘as a further and final legitimate ranking of competing nations and territories from the respective competitions’.
Dame Louise Martin, the CGF president said, “I am delighted that we have approved India’s ambitious proposal to host a Commonwealth archery and shooting championships in Chandigarh during 2022. Commonwealth archery and shooting athletes now have an unprecedented opportunity to compete in an elite event that will showcase the very best of Commonwealth sport and add value to the Commonwealth sports movement.”
Birmingham 2022 will begin on 27th July 2022, five months after the Commonwealth championships in Chandigarh, with a packed programme of 19 sports, featuring women’s cricket and 3x3 basketball for the first time ever and the biggest ever integrated para-sport programme!
