Allanah's Commonwealth games writing

                    

                                            COMMONWEALTH GAMES

                                            

The commonwealth games often referred as the ‘Friendly’ games are a sporting event held

every four years.

The 2014 commonwealth games are held in Glasgow, Scotland commonwealth games

promise to be the best commonwealth games ever and only commonwealth countries

compete in the commonwealth games there are about 6,500 athletes competing in the

2014 commonwealth games also officials from 71 nations and territories will compete

in 17 sports they are only held for 11 days.

A unique characteristic of the commonwealth games is being the only games which share
a common language . All athletes and officials can converse with each other

in English, creating an atmosphere that has lead to the commonwealth games being

long known as the ‘Friendly Games’.

From the first host city of Hamilton In Canada, the games have been held In many

of the major commonwealth countries Canada again held the games In Vancouver

in 1954, Edmonton in 1978 and Victoria in 1994.  Australia has also held the games

on four occasions, Sydney In 1938, Perth In 1962, Brisbane 1982 and Melbourne

In 2006. In 1998 Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia hosted the games for the first time in an

Asian country. In 2010, the games returned to Asia and were held in Delhi. The

games are now being held in Glasgow, Scotland followed by Gold Coast, Australia in

2018.

all of the commonwealth countries they have started from 1911 so the commonwealth

games have been going on for 22 years in a row that is really long time the commonwealth

games has started from 1911 onwards to 2018 and they will keep on going.

hose are all the countries that have held the commonwealth games. Ever since they
have started also on how many people are competing in the commonwealth from all of the

commonwealth countries.