Meet the Indian Male & Female Boxing Squad for Commonwealth Games

In the recent times, Indian boxers have earned a good reputation in various international boxing competitions, including the commonwealth games. Both male and female boxers from India have performed well at international stage recently. There are huge hopes from the boxers this time and they are expected to earn a few medals in Glasgow, Scotland.  Out of the 101 medals India won in last commonwealth games 7 were from boxing. Not sure about this edition of the games but I wish the boxing team good luck and hopefully they could increase the count this time and reach double figures.

Let me introduce you to the male and female boxing squad for India this Commonwealth games.

Male Boxers from India for Glasgow Commonwealth Games:

• Devendro Singh - This guy from Manipur won gold at the Bocskai Invitation Tournament in Hungary.
• Shiva Thapa - This boxer from Assam has got various medals at junior level and was the youngest boxer to qualify for 2012 London Olympics.
• Manoj Kumar - Manoj Kumar won Gold medal for Indian in 2010 CWG games and he also won bronze medal in 2007 and 2013 Asian Championships.
• Mandeep Jangra - This guy might be the trump card this year in the 69 kg category.
• Vijender Singh: Vijendar is perhaps the only boxer in India who is recognized by masses. A winner of bronze medal in both Olympics and Word Champions, he is the most popular boxer in India.
• Sumit Sangwan - Sumit is a known face at state and national levels. We wish him good luck at international level as well.
• Dinesh Kumar - Got silver medal in Asian games.
• Praveen More - High hopes on him in the +91 kg category.
   

Female Boxers from India for Glasgow Commonwealth Games: Female boxing is making a debut to the Commonwealth games and this is a nice time for female boxer to make a statement here.

• Pinki Jangra: This boxer from Haryana qualified to play for India after defeating the 5 time world champion and Olympic Bronze medal winner M C Mary Kom in the trials. Mary Kom was on a long break from Boxing after giving birth to her third child. Mary Kom was expecting a comeback but she'll have to wait for a while. Hopefully Pinki Jangra will meet the expectation of the country and perform well in the games.
• Sarita Devi: Sarita Devi has won a silver medal in World Championship. She has been consistent performer and winning medals in Asian Women Boxing Championship since 2001.
• Pooja Rani: Her rise in the boxing is just like a movie story. With opposition from her father in taking the game as a profession, this girl has yet lot more to achieve. 

Route for Queens Baton Relayed to change after Withdrawl of Gambia

As mentioned in the previous post, Gambia has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games 2014 and no longer wish to be part of the Commonwealth Nations. Since now only 70 nations would be participating the queens batons will cover journey to 70 nations only. The launch of The Queen's Baton Relay took place on 9th Oct where the hidden message of queen was placed in the baton, then Baton begin the Journey to previous host country India and spend around 3 days before heading to Bangladesh.  From Bangladesh it will head to Pakistan.

Here is the complete route of Queens Baton relay (Revised after Gambia withdrawal)

1. India
2. Bangladesh
3. Pakistan
4. Sri Lanka
5. Maldives
6. Singapore
7. Malaysia
8. Brunei
9. Australia
10. New Guinea
11. Solomon Islands
12. Nauru
13. Tuvalu
14. Samoa
15. New Zealand
16. Kiribati
17. Cook Islands
18. Tonga
19. Niue
20. Norfolk Islands
21. Vanuatu
22. Sierra Leone
23. Ghana
24. Nigeria
25. Cameroon
26. Kenya
27. Uganda
28. Rwanda
29. Tanzania
30.  Seychelles
31. Malawi
32. Zambia (Please note that its Gambia that withdraw from the games not Zambia)
33. Namibia
34. Botswana
35. Mauritius - This is the only country apart from my home nation India that I've visited. A beautiful nation, with lots of natural beauty, crystal clear waters. Read my experience with Maurituis holidays here.
36. Mozambique
37. Swaziland
38. Lesotho
39. South Africa
40. St Helena
41. Falkland Islands
42. Guyana
43. Barbados
44. Grenada
45. Trinidad & Tobago
46. St Vincent & The Grenadines
47. St Lucia
48. Dominica
49. Antigua & Barbuda
50. Montserrat
51. St Kitts & Nevis
52. Anguilla
53. British Virgin Islands
54. Jamaica
55. Cayman Islands
56. Turks and Caicos Islands
57. Bahmas
58. Belize
59. Bermuda
60. Canada
61. Cyprus
62. Malta
63. Gibraltar
64. Jersey
65. Guernsey
66. Isle of Man
67. Northern Island
68. Wales
69. England
70. Scotland

Will try to keep you update about the queens baton relay. 

Indian Festivsal Season & Queens Baton Relay

"We look forward very much to bringing the baton and sharing our excitement and enthusiasm for the Commonwealth Games with the people of India next week, as planned" This is the message from the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Committee however Queens baton relay might face some problems in Delhi due the festival season.

The baton is schedule to visit India next week and then continue the journey to around 71 participation nations. The baton contains queens message which she will read on the opening ceremony of the games. The hand written message read by her majesty, the queen marks the opening of the Commonwealth games.

The Indian authorities have already told the commonwealth representative about the inability to hold the baton relay in Delhi, which coincides with the major Hindu festival called Dushehra. Dushera is celebrated with great job in India. It marks the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana, this day there can be traffic problems as people come out to see the fireworks held throughout the country.

Taking the immediate steps, the 2014 Commonwealth Games organisers  in Glasgow have already sent a team to India. The team is given the task to avoid any potential issues with the Baton Relay.

Sounds like this baton relay problem might be resolved by the organisers and IOA however another problem Glasgow commonwealth if facing that rumours are there that Gambia might withdraw or not participate in the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Meet Glasgow Commonwealth Games Mascot Clyde

Glasgow Commonwealth Games mascot called Clyde is now one year old and this Mascot will officially represent the face of the 2014 commonwealth games. Chances are there that for next few months till the tournament will start and end you can see the Clyde mascot all over Scotland and over print media, television and internet.  Same for the case for New Delhi Commonwealth games held in 2010 where Shera the official Mascot was seen all over India, specially Northern part of the country.

As I told Clyde is one year old and unlike other babies Clyde has been busy whole year spreading the word about the games.  Image below shows one such promotion for Clyde.

To know more about Clyde visit http://mascot.glasgow2014.com  or watch the video below:

Women’s Boxing all set to debut at Commonwealth Games 2014

Women’s boxing is gaining popularity from some time and I am sure soon we’ll have women’s boxers getting popular like Ali, Tyson and maybe someday Hollywood actress feature in movies similar like the Rocky Series of Sylvester Stallone.

In the coming commonwealth games to be hosted in Glasgow the women’s boxing event will be featured for the first time. This means that after the London Olympics all the female boxers from various countries will get another chance to show their talent & boxing prowess.  The success of the boxing event in the London Olympics has played a major role in the Commonwealth Games Federation granting the approval for the games to be included for the first time in the history of the commonwealth games.  Players will compete in the three weight categories.

I am excited to see the pretty faces showering punches at each other.

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Progress

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will definitely break one record of being the commonwealth games event to hold highest number of medal event. There will be total of 256 medal events and include 17 sports. 17 sports included might have some from the previous commonwealth games excluded and new sports included. The major sporting event will be wrestling, athletics, badminton, aquatics, judo, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens,cycling, gymnastics, hockey, shooting, squash, table tennis, triathlon, weightlifting, boxing, and power lifting.  Archery and tennis are not included this time.

Interestingly the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games  will also be the biggest sporting event in the history of Scotland as well. During the 11 days of the event, Scotland and Glasgow will be center of attraction for all sports channels, papers, magazines and online media etc.

Commonwealth Games 2014 in the News

Its still quite a lot time left for commonwealth games to start making it large in media. Around 6-8 moths before the event we will start hearing news about Glasgow commonwealth games all over media (print, tv, radio and online etc.). So far there isn't much hype in the media about Glasgow commonwealth games but last year common wealth games are still in the highlight due to large amount of corruption done in the hosting country India at that time. Main criminal in that case is Mr Suresh Kalmadi. I'll not take you off topic by talking about a cause i.e a worry for almost al countries in the world.

Let me quickly summarize you about what's going on in the news for commonwealth games:

1. Sarah Kelly the teenage international runner from Great Britain has recovered from the injury and is expected to make a comeback in the commonwealth games to be held in Glasgow. According to her coach Liz McColgan she is fully fit and training hard for the comeback.
2. Its rumored that the security costs for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games may cross the budget approved by the Scottish Parliament. Scotish government has already once increased the security budget from £373m to £524m, but the new budget suggest that this may need to be increase further.
3. Atos which is one of the leading international IT company has been named one of the sponsor of the Commonwealth Games 2014. Information about the same can be found at Atos website as well.
4. This is not a news but an update or reminder for you that games will be held in July and August 2014

Glasgow commonwealth games 2014 Venues

Venues for the 2014 commonwealth games to be held in Glasgow has been
finalised. Games will be playes at 4 different location across the
city of Glasgow. The four locations has been selected so as to make
sure that organisors can get the full use of cities infrastructur for
the mega sporting event. Also its beleived this will help the common
wealth games 2014 run smoothly and offer sports representatives and
tourists experinece the diversity and enjoy their stay during the
event.

The four selected locations are:
1. East end
2. South side
3. Satelite Locations
4. West end

The commonwealth games village in being built in the East end which
also includes Glasgow Green Hockey Centre Celtic Park, Tollcross
International Swimming Centre and Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy
Velodrome. The South side cluster will include Ibrox stadium, Hampden
Park and Cathkin Braes Country Park.

In the Satellite Locations players and visitors can experince the
luxury offered by Royal Commonwealth Pool, Strathclyde Country Park
and Barry Buddon Shooting Centre. Whereas the West end cluster for the
Glasgow commonweath games 2014 will have Scotstoun Sports Campus, SECC
Precinct and Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre. Scotstoun Sports Campus
will be used for Squash and Table Tennis competitions and will be
upgraded by the games to have two courts for Squash (glass walled) &
twenty TT tables.

Countdown to Glasgow commonwealth games 2014

Its now less than 1000 days for the opening ceremony of Glasgow commonwealth games 2014 and the construction works is creating lots of job opportunities there. Construction work will include £150 million accommodation facility for athletes and sport officials. £100 million Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome is also near completion. All these project have been awarded to Scottish firms which are creating jobs for architects and civil engineers in the country.

Also there is a great news to the people in Sri Lanka, yes the country has won the bid to hosts has got a boost as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth confirmed Sri Lanka will host its next summit in 2013.

Glasgow 2014 digital game competition

As mentioned in the previous post about digital game concept, students participated with great enthuaism and the winning design came from William Rountree a 21 year old student from County Armagh . His game titled "Your Moment" make him get the 2014 GBP equivalent to 3222$ and also he gets the opportunity to work with professional games development firm 4JStudios who won the contract to transform his winning concept into a working game.


"I still can't quite believe I actually won but I have had an amazing experience working with the team at 4JStudios and seeing my design develop, change and become a reality." Those are the workd of the winniner William Rountree



Read more about this are http://www.glasgow2014.com/blog/digital_game.aspx

No Update - Commonwealth Games 2014

Its has been log time since my last post Beach volleyball included for 2014 Games and I never made a post after that. Its not like that I've been not recieving any updates on the commonwealth games or I've been keeping very busy to update this blog. Its around three years left for the commonwealth games to start and I think the interest for the new games will start increasing and increasing as time will move on.

Interesting news is that my top posts widget for this blog in now not showing 2010 commonwealth games related post, seems craze for the commonwealth 2014 is now begining.

I'll keep you updated on news about the progress in Glassgow.

Beach volleyball included for 2014 Games

Beach volleyball game may be included in the 2014 Glasgow Common Wealth Games. Beach volleyball has been a part of Olympics games since 2008 but the game is yet to make its enterance to the common wealth games.

Though the final decision is yet pending with the commonwealth games comittee, it's most likely that the game will get inclusion this time.

the game is famous for the athletic body of the participants and the fact that it is palyed in revealing outfits like bikinis or swimming shorts in the sand.

Who will host Commonwealth Games 2018 Part two

All of you who have read my first post on Who will host Commonwealth Games 2018? must be aware that the main competition for hosting commomwealth games 2018 is between two finalists Australia and Sri Lanka.

Update from the commonwealth games is that both the countries have respectively submitted their bids to the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) executive committee meeting on 10-May-2011. Evaluation Committee's will start the selection process next month and will complete the taks in September.

Finally in November both the countries have to make their final presentation and then the final votes will be cast.

Just to remind you that 2014 commonwealth games will be held in Glasgow, scotland from July 23 to Aug 3, 2014 .

Glasgow 2014 Commonwelath Games Village face marathon eviction battle

Grandmother loses marathon eviction battle with Glasgow 2014 Games this was one of the headlines for the news of a women who lost the legal battle to remove her from the property, which is to be demolished for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. Initially she was offered £30,000 and the ammount was raised to £90,000 still the woman argued and no agreemetn was reached. Read the complete article on this story at http://www.scotsman.com/news/Grandmother-loses-marathon-eviction-battle.6736086.jp

Scottish Human Baton on relay for 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Yes, similar to quenns baton relay, the Scotish cyclist Sean Newall is all set to visit all the participant countires of the 20th commonwealth games to beheld in Glasgow in 2014. He begain the Journey in early 2010 and his cycling tour is expected to be completed in two years time spread across six spans.

He started from Glasgow and reached New Delhi, India a day before the closing ceremony of 2010 commonwealth games. After that he headed towards Singapore, Australia.

You can keep a track of this human baton at the website www.thecommonwealthchallenge.com

Who will host Commonwealth Games 2018?

I've been posting about updated of 2014 commonwealth games to he held in Glasgow. Preparation for the games and the committee is making slow and steady progress in this regard. Like you can see in the previous posts:

• Commonwealth games Delhi 2010 to Glasgow in 2014
• Glasgow Commonwelath Games 2014 - City Council fund aims to create 1,000 jobs
• Commonwealth Games 2014 launches online game competition to students

I wish there will be no mess up of things like what happended in Commonwealth games held earlier this year in Delhi, last time finishin of thigs was something that had whole particip[ating teams in deep concern. Much importat thig than the timely preparation is the corruption, perhaps Glassgow administration and organising comitte be full of honest people with no greed for money.

Now comming to the matter, the host for 2018 commonwelath games is still not decided and the two finalist for this competion are Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia or
Hambantota, Sri Lanka. Perhaps this will be decided withing next few months. I see strong chances of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia getting the chance to host the games. I'll keep you updated on which country will get the chances and other updated from the Glassgow 2014 commonwealth games.

Commonwealth Games 2014 launches online game competition to students

All the online games developers has the golden chance to win £2,014 in cash. Yes this is true the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has offered students to participate in competition to develop an online game for 2014 commonwealth games. Both the winner and runners up will get award of £2,014. But only the winner will get the chance to develop a game alongwith 4J Studios (a game development company). The developed game will appear on the Glasgow 2014 website. It is planned to launch the game around the summer and we can see many upgrades in the game later.

In the meantime one more global competition ICC Cricket world cup is begining and you all can catch updates about the event at http://icccricket.blogspot.com/

Glasgow Commonwelath Games 2014 - City Council fund aims to create 1,000 jobs

The Commonwealth Jobs Fund seeks to help 18 to 24 year olds who have been out of work for more than six months.

It will be open from January next year until July 2012 and will pay up to £6,500 towards each new job created.

Priority will be given to employers who pay a "living wage" of £7 per hour and private and third sector organisations with fewer than 250 people.

The initiative aims to contribute to the legacy of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It follows the Commonwealth Apprenticeship Initiative, which the city council said had "provided places for hundreds of Glaswegian school-leavers in 2010".Under spend
The scheme was officially launched by council leader Gordon Matheson at the 13th annual State of the City Economy Conference.

He said: "The £7m that we are investing today is available thanks to the private sector's commitment to the Commonwealth Apprenticeship Initiative.

"Thanks to the way you enthusiastically stepped up to the plate and invested your own money in taking on almost 600 apprentices in 2010 alone, the council's own budget for the scheme was significantly under-spent.

"Having saved us that money, we are now pleased to be redirecting it back to you through the Commonwealth Jobs Fund."

Councillor Matheson said the authority was sending a message that to unemployed young people that they would not be abandoned.

News Source: BBC News Scotland

Come again commonwealth games in 2014

Like the opening ceremony the closing ceremony of 2010 Delhi Commonwealth games were excellent. There were some exciting performances by Army men bands, students, singers. Australia topped by winning most number of medals whereas India and Canada were among the number 2 and 3 spot respectively.
Next commonwealth games will be held in 2014 at Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and will host the event for 11 days from 24 July to 3 August 2014. Unlike games village in Delhi, Glasgow will have Athletes Village in Dalmarnock from where all the major venues are not more than 20 mins drive.

Below is the list of games for the 2014 commonwealth games:
* Aquatics
o Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
o Diving pictogram.svg Diving

* Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
* Badminton pictogram.svg Badminton
* Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
* Cycling
o Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Road
o Cycling (track) pictogram.svg Track
o Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg Mountain

* Gymnastics
o Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Artistic
o Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg Rhythmic

* Field hockey pictogram.svg Field hockey
* Judo pictogram.svg Judo
* Bowling pictogram.svg Lawn Bowls
* Netball pictogram.svg Netball
* Rugby union pictogram.svg Rugby sevens
* Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting (Small Bore Rifle, Full Bore Rifle, Pistol and Clay Target)
* Squash pictogram.svg Squash
* Table tennis pictogram.svg Table Tennis
* Triathlon pictogram.svg Triathlon
* Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
* Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

India willl also hold one more event next year and that event is ICC Cricket World cup 2011. You can catch live action od 2011 cricket world cup at http://icccricket.blogspot.com/search/label/cricket%20world%20cup%2020011

We will also keep you updated on the progress of next commonwealthgames like qualifying games, progress at Glasgow etc. Keep on visting blog later or you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for direct updates.