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.