Commonwealth Games requires Photographers to travel with the Baton

If you are a professional photographer then this can be a dream assignment to you. Commonwealth Games organisers are looking for photographers (photo journalists) for a six months assignment. The photographers selected will travel along with the Queens Baton relay across various nations. Getting paid for a trip that will start from India in October 2013 and covering nations like Maldives, Australia, Africa, Dubai etc and then reach Ireland (Glasgow) the host country for the Commonwealth games 2014. 

Last day you can apply for this job is 16^th September and if selected you must be available to start the work on October 1^st. You can apply for this job at the official commonwealth games 2014 site. 

Queens Batons is just as famous as the Olympics torch and it travels across the globe through various participating nations.  We’ll keep you posted about the excited journey of Baton. 

Please keep visiting this blog for further updates.

Kalmadi not eligible for Indian Olympic Association polls

Suresh Kalmadi, V.K. Verma and Lalit Bhanot all cannot contest the umcoming IOA elections. The Indian Olympic Association polls are scheduled on 25^th November and present President Kalmari has expressed his desire to contest again.  Apart from not being eligible for the election these three may also be suspended from the current roles. 

Kalmadi and others are already is facing corruption charges and even has served few months in Jail ans preventive measures.  Now it’d be interesting to see who will contest the election. For sure we’ll have a new IOA president, corrupt or not cannot be guaranteed. 

Other news about Commonwealth games:

• Venues for 2014 Glasgw commonwealth games has been made accessible to general public.
• Women’s Boxing Event included to the first time in Commonwealth games
• Hampden Park may be closed for one year in lieu of 2014 Glasgow preparations
• Mascot for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games called "Clyde" revealed

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 rises - Sponsors Thank You

Latest news about Glasgow commonwealth games  (Here you can just post headlines or anything latest about the games like Some country announced the team, any stadium built etc. … can be small or bulky in word length

Glasgow rises - Sponsors Thank You
1 game, 1 dream, 1 team

Proud. Committed. Passionate.  Focused. Welcoming.

Games hoist the spirits of sharing love, tourism, business, patriotisms and also brotherhood amongst everyone everywhere.

Standing on the strong motto of “People, Place, Passion” Glasgow is shining to host 2014 Commonwealth Games and exhibit the Scottish extravaganza. With Glasgow passionately inviting people across the globe it is moving a step further to phase of large developments.

Let us land to the latest updates and news about spectacular and awaited games event in Glasgow 2014. Increasing job opportunities at every step Glasgow has been boon to share a smart and large hand in ongoing employment opportunities for Scotland.  Recently announced updates prove the statement. Scotland's creative sector is set to create up to 1000 job opportunities as well as providing world-class training for a new generation of young broadcast specialists. This is accomplished by recently awarded Host Broadcaster for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to Sunset+Vine and Global Television. Sunset+Vine and Global Television has been an international television sports broadcast connoisseur. Sunset+Vine and Global Television or SVGTG has won the bid and will capture the enthusiasm and ecstasy of the Games. The potential audience is expected to be more than one billion worldwide.
Sunset+Vine and The Global Television are brought together and for the fortunate event and are expected to show a endearing broadcast of the extravagant event.

Glasgow 2014 has appointed David McCrae as interim Head of Transport who will be responsible to lead the Transport Strategy for Glasgow 2014. David McCrae will be posted immediately after concluding London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Declaring all the assets and important roles to the people and company, Glasgow partnered with leading Power and gas Company SSE to power up the Event.

Commonwelath Games Host listed among top ten sporting cities

As a follower of this Common Wealth Games Blog and a fan of commonwealth games you would be glad to hear that Glasgow, the city which is going to host the 2014 commonwealth games has been listed among top 10 sporting cities in the world. This was announced at the famous and prestigious SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City Awards 2012.

You will also feel proud to hear that its not the first time that a commonwealth games host city has achieved this honor. Other cities to achieve this are Melbourne and Manchester.

This is in fact a great new to hear and with games just around 2 years to go it gives a strong message that sporting mega event at Glasgow, Scotland would be a huge huge success.

That was the latest update, will post more news about the even soon.

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