Folk Musician from Rajasthan to Perform in 2014 Commonwealth Games

The famous group "The Kawa Brass Band", known for playing Rajashtani Folk tunes will perform at  Commonwealth Games this year. This band that consists of 10 members have already performed in Commonwealth games that were help in Australia.

The band will give a one hour long performance along with the famous Kawa Musical Circus and the Musafir band. Apart from the one hour ceremony band will also take part in daily parade at the games village. Daily parade will be help twice a day. This is as exciting this to watch  apart from the games.

Though FIFA world cup is taking the world by storm, soon the commonwealth games will find the place in national and international media. Let the games begin from in 20 days from now.

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 .

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.

Commonwealth game Medal tally

As of today 13-Oct-2010 Australia is in the lead position with 169 medals, England is at number two with 138 medal and host India is a the third position with 96 medals.

India might slip down from third position at the end of the games as i tihnk they will be able to somehow manage 100 medals. If this happens it will be the first time in history of commonwealth games that India won 100 or more medals.

Below is the points table:

Country Men Women Mixed Total G S B T G S B T G S B T G S B T AUS - Australia 34 24 23 81 37 24 24 85 1 2 3 72 50 47 169 ENG - England 22 35 20 77 14 21 21 56 1 4 5 37 56 45 138 IND - India 25 14 23 62 11 11 11 33 1 1 36 26 34 96 CAN - Canada 12 7 11 30 14 10 21 45 26 17 32 75 RSA - South Africa 7 9 9 25 5 2 1 8 12 11 10 33 NGR - Nigeria 4 3 6 13 6 7 7 20 10 10 13 33 KEN - Kenya 5 7 5 17 5 3 3 11 10 10 8 28 SCO - Scotland 5 6 4 15 3 3 3 9 1 1 2 9 10 7 26 SIN - Singapore 4 3 6 13 4 4 2 10 1 1 1 3 9 8 9 26 MAS - Malaysia 3 5 6 14 4 3 5 12 1 1 2 8 8 12 28 NZL - New Zealand 1 12 4 17 3 9 3 15 1 1 2 5 22 7 34 NIR - Northern Ireland 3 2 3 8 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 10 SAM - Samoa 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 4 WAL - Wales 2 1 4 7 5 6 11 2 6 10 18 JAM - Jamaica 1 3 4 1 1 1 3 2 4 1 7 CYP - Cyprus 2 1 2 5 2 2 2 3 2 7 PAK - Pakistan 2 1 2 5 2 1 2 5 UGA - Uganda 2 2 2 2 BAH - Bahamas 1 1 3 5 1 1 3 5 SRI - Sri Lanka 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 NRU - Nauru 1 1 2 1 1 2 BOT - Botswana 3 3 1 1 1 3 4 SVG - St. Vincent & The Grenadines 1 1 1 1 CAY - Cayman Islands 1 1 1 1 TRI - Trinidad and Tobago 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 6 CMR - Cameroon 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 4 6 GHA - Ghana 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 4 NAM - Namibia 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 PNG - Papua New Guinea 1 1 1 1 SEY - Seychelles 1 1 1 1 MRI - Mauritius 2 2 2 2 IOM - Isle of Man 2 2 2 2 TON - Tonga 2 2 2 2 BAN - Bangladesh 1 1 1 1 LCA - Saint Lucia 1 1 1 1 GUY - Guyana 1 1 1 1 Total: 139 141 148 428 111 111 116 338 6 6 7 19 256 258 271 785

Age no matter for Scotland this common wealth games

WHEN it comes to the Commonwealth Games, it's fair to say that for Scotland, age does not matter. Yes your read is right Grace Read who is the youngest athlete in the Scotlad players list is 14 years old. She is 58 years younger than t 72 years young, Wood. Wood is participating in the commonwealth games for the record eigth time. In case Wood get a gold this games he would oldest perosn to win gold in commonwealth games history thus suprassing the record held by Australian bowler Dorothy Roche who won gold at the age of 61.

Tata Motors India Commonwealth Games Official Transporter

For the commonwealth games starting from 3 October till the 14th, Tata Motors one of the leading automobile manufacturer company in India will provide the transport solutions throughout the games and for the Queens Baon relay. MOU for the same was signed between Tata Motors and CWG games Organising Committee.

1,789 vehicles with Drivers, fuel and backup services will be provided by the Tata motors.

Usain Bolt not to participate in Commonweath games

After the olympic champion Victoria Pendleton taking her name out of the Common Wealth games 2010 as she want to focus on the upcomming European Championship, today the fastest man Usain Bolt today announced that he will be unable to participate in the commonwealth games starting from October 3rd to October 14th this year. This was expected as Usain also will not participate in the Jamaica’s national championships to be held next weekend.

Like Victoria Pendleton, Usain is also taking this break to focus on London Olympics

Rugby sevens stadium inaugurated in New Delhi University

The swanky Delhi University Stadium, a Commonwealth Games venue for rugby, was inaugurated on Thursday by Sports Minister MS Gill, who said maintaining the infrastructure coming up for the mega-event after the Games was a "big challenge" before the organisers, reports Hindustan Times. "This stadium is a gift to the Delhi University. The games will be held in it, but this gift will remain with you forever. The work here started only in 2008 and I am happy that a sprawling complex has come up in just two years," Gill said at the function.
Later talking to reporters, he said maintaining stadiums after the sporting events is a challenge that every host country faces. "I went to Athens, Melbourne and even China for either Olympics or Commonwealth Games. The authorities there too said it remained a challenge," he added.
To a query that Games venues may be handed over to the private players, Gill said: "A proper strategy is going to come very soon. But, what we can assure is that public and the players will not face any problem."
Speaking at the function, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said it was an important day in the history of Delhi University and such a facility will inspire students to sports.
"Its a great legacy for the Varsity," said Dikshit, a DU alumni.
The stadium has been built up in 10,000 sq metres with a seating capacity of 2,500 permanent seats and 7,500 temporary ones.

Source - www.Hindustantimes.com

Pollution monitoring system for the Commonwelath Games 2010

UN has praised India for its initiative for Green commonwealth games. Approximate 60 solar powered light have been installed in the compund of the Talkatora indoor stadium. These light use LEDs and will elluminate automatically with sun set and will get switched off on sun rise. Solar light are said to be environment friendly and require very less maintenance with a life span of 50000 hours. Talkatora stadium will be used mainly for boxin competitions during commonwelath games 2010.

Common Welath Games 2010 Calendar of Events

Below is the calendar of commonwelath 2010 games India. you can track tie calendar for your favorite games and support your teams. So scheduls the commonwealth games month accordingly.

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Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

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Closing ceremony

October	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Venue
Ceremonies	●											●	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Aquatics		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		SPM Swimming Pool Complex
Archery													I. G. Indoor Stadium Complex & India Gate / Red Fort
Athletics				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Badminton		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Siri Fort Sports Complex
Boxing		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	R	●			Talkatora Indoor Stadium
Cycling		●	●	●	●		●				●		I. G. Indoor Stadium Complex
Gymnastics		●	●	●	R	●	●		●	●	●		I. G. Indoor Stadium Complex
Field hockey		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Maj. Dhyan Chand National Stadium
Lawn Bowls		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Netball		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Rugby sevens			●	●									Delhi University
Shooting		T	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range
Squash		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Siri Fort Sports Complex
Table Tennis		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		Yamuna Sports Complex
Tennis		●	●	●	●	●	●	●					R K Khanna Tennis Complex
Weightlifting			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Wrestling			●	●	●	●							I. G. Indoor Stadium Complex
October	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Venue

Commonwealth games 2010 stadiums anbdthe events

The 2010 common welath games in India will be held at existing at new stadiums in and around New Delhi the capital of India. Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida the three cities commonly known as Delhi NCR har in the process of a huge reform. the big example of that you can see at Indira Gandhi Internation airport, the airport has gone a makeover and it will be first ot mark an impression over the sportsperson, other memeber of the teams etc.

Here is the list of stadiums where competition will be held:

1. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi – Athletics, lawn bowls, weightlifting
2. Dhyan Chand ational Stadium – Hockey
3. Indira Gandhi Arena – Archery, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling
4. Delhi University sports complex – Rugby sevens
5. Thyagaraj Stadium – Netball
6. Siri Fort Sports Complex – Badminton, Squash
7. Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range – Shooting
8. Talkatora Stadium – Boxing
9. SPM Swimming Pool Complex – Aquatics
10. RK Khanna Tennis Complex – Tennis
11. Yamuna Sports Complex – Table tennis

Commonwealth song for Rs 5.5 crore

Work for Commonwelath games had begun and its already a record breaking ammount being spent on the event. The 2010 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee has made a deal with oscar winner Music director AR Rehman worth Rs 5.5 crore for opening ceremony song of the 2010 commonwelath games. According to the source Rehman was initially askin for an ammount of RS 15 crore.

Green Commonwealth games 2010

t’s a race against time and pollution. In an effort to ensure that this year’s Commonwealth Games are green and pollution-free, Pune’s scientists and environmentalists are making frequent trips to the capital, training students and volunteers to collect data for an ‘emission inventory’.

Dr Gufran Beig, a scientist at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology, Dr Ajay Ojha, former chief of the Pune Municipal Corporation’s air quality management cell and experts from the city’s Chest Research Foundation have embarked upon the voluminous task of preparing an emission inventory for the National Capital Region (NCR).

The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has developed the technology being used to carry out the research.

Beig, a scientist with IITM's System of Air Pollution Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) explained how the involvement of over 100 students from colleges and universities in Delhi would help in the effort.

“We are in the process of preparing an emission inventory that will account for the amount of pollutants discharged into the atmosphere,’’Beig told Newsline. This includes a detailed survey of ‘sources’ and examining what quantities of air pollutants are emitted and their origin.

Beig who conducted a brainstorming workshop in New Delhi to encourage and motivate students on how to collect data to form an ‘emission inventory’ said that the process was extremely tedious. “The month-long programme that started on March 11 included 100 students who were stationed at 40 major junctions in the National Capital Region (NCR) region,” said Ojha, who is presently the coordinator with the project.

With the aim of predicting the air quality 24 hours in advance, students divided into groups have identified 21 major sources of pollution. Students who have been allocated their groups at five cities-Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Delhi and Gaziabad begin their day by collecting data on the number of vehicles that pass by at a major junction.

“While one group ask motorists details about the fuel he/she uses, another group lists details from hotels about the LPG consumption. One group of students has been given the task of collecting data on kerosene and coals being used by slum dwellers at a certain area. One group even has the task of using a vaccum cleaner and collecting the dust on the road in one sq mt area. This kind of sample survey is underway presently and 80 per cent of the work has been completed,” said Ojha.