Commonwealth Games 2022

The CGF insists the event is thriving as athletes prepare to compete in Birmingham, and also said it was working with Tom Daley following his condemnation ...

The atmosphere of the Commonwealth Games is always notably different to other events. With thousands of athletes having arrived in Birmingham, the sport should at least be enticing. According to Dame Louise Martin, the president of the CGF, they are working with Daley. We just had a general assembly, we heard from Birmingham, we heard from 2026, we announced that we’re going to have the Youth Games in Trinidad next year. Her organisation has tried to tackle that by initiating the first Commonwealth esports championships. Speaking before the opening ceremony, Katie Sadleir, the CEO of the Commonwealth Games Federation, was adamant that the event has not become irrelevant.

Hosting the Games has seem Birmingham dotted with new infrastructure and amenities. But the city's pioneering transformation began over a 100 years ago.

But it should not distract from the city’s innovative and experimental approach to creating healthy neighbourhoods by achieving a new kind of balance between profitability and sustainability. Further funding from the West Midland Combined Authority and Birmingham City Council will top this up to £1.3 billion. Public transport is set to increasingly displace the use of private cars, thereby reducing air pollution and traffic noise. Birmingham City Council still retains the freeholds for most of the land in the city centre today. This includes the ability to focus on enhancing the quality of the built environment. These interventions include the £705 million redevelopment of New Street railway station, completed in 2015. The city council was behind this £500m, 1.8 million sq foot office-led mixed commercial scheme and stands to benefit from additional business rates and ground rents. The city’s gradual restructuring of its economy has seen major corporate players consider the city as a suitable business location. Our research shows that this was, in fact, a Birmingham innovation. Other major corporate players have followed suit including HS2, Goldman Sachs and Microland, the Indian IT infrastructure company. The Games will thus leave a permanent legacy of their own. Cities are places to live and work.

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Badminton: Women’s and men’s singles, women’s and men’s doubles, mixed doubles Road cycling: Women’s and men’s road race Swimming: Men’s 50m fly, women’s 50m breast, men’s 200m free, S13 men’s 50m free, S13 women’s 50m free, men’s 400m medley, women’s 100m fly, men’s 100m back, women’s and men’s 4x100m free relay

The distinctive Birmingham accent has long been judged badly with its speakers suffering from bias, but it has deep historical roots and is now being given ...

In a region where cultural identity centred for so long around pride in the strength of local industry, the closure of so many factories in recent years means people are now “reclaiming an identity through voice. “We don’t big ourselves up, it’s to the detriment of our city.” Analysing the Vernon Manuscript – the largest surviving late-medieval English text, written in the West Midlands dialect in around 1400 – they recognised that the typical local pronunciation of “you” may originate from the Middle English word “ow”. In 1960 it was voted bottom for “prestige and pleasantness” in an academic study of British people’s attitudes to 16 different accents. The novelist Maeve Clarke, another member of the creative team, says the accent is “ part of who we are”. “You will hear this wonderful accent wherever you go in the Games,” he said.

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The Indians are now, unofficially and arguably, the best boxing team in the Commonwealth. Now he is at Birmingham 2022 to win gold and spread an important message But the most winding road to Birmingham has been taken by a former brickie from just down the M40 in Buckinghamshire. Every single one of England’s boxers from the Gold Coast have now turned professional. Just over 10 years on from the memorable opening ceremony to the London Olympics, the creative team behind the show are expected to highlight the talent and diversity of the West Midlands in a performance that will be around three hours long. He is the first Team England athlete in action, as 11 days of sport gets under way in Birmingham, a remarkable story that comes full circle on the manicured lawns of Victoria Park. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Other venues include University of Birmingham for hockey and squash. A total of 31 boxers from England, Scotland and Wales will weigh in at the Commonwealth Games with medals and a lot more to fight for More than 5,000 athletes will compete across 20 different sports for 280 gold medals over the next 10 days. The Commonwealth Games boxing tournament starts on Friday in Birmingham and leads directly to the Paris Olympics in 2024 for all of the English, Welsh and Scottish boxers. At its heart will be the Parade of Nations, as participating athletes from countries across the Commonwealth walk into the stadium under their flag.

What sports are at the Commonwealth Games 2022 - here's the full list from boxing to cricket, to badminton.

Triathlon and para triathlon Athletics and para athletics Duran Duran will headline the opening ceremony while a parade will welcome this year's competitors.

A raging bull, Malala Yousafzai, a Brummie drag queen and Duran Duran all part of festivities.

Excitement about the Games has been building for months. It was dragged into the stadium by 50 women representing chainmakers from the Industrial Revolution. “We tried to give everything an edge. The city and wider region will provide the perfect stage for our athletes to compete.” “It feels like these games have come around at the right time for this city,” said the show’s artistic director, Iqbal Khan. “We are ready to make a statement to the world about ourselves. The opening ceremony followed the journey of Stella and the Dreamers, a group of young athletes from around the Commonwealth, through Birmingham’s history.

This year's Games in Birmingham comes against a backdrop of Commonwealth nations looking to remove the Queen as head of state.

“It’s very easy to look at the Commonwealth and see negatives, a waywardness in terms of its overall purpose and direction, but also see it as a reconstructed empire. The Commonwealth has been Queen Elizabeth II’s great project. That can help us imagine it and think about it in a more positive way? “We know that Charles is not as wedded to the Commonwealth as his mother. “What I have found quite reassuring about the Birmingham Commonwealth Games is the orchestrators of the events appear to be using it as an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of Birmingham.” Although there will be a strong royal presence in Birmingham throughout the Games, the Queen – who is patron of the Commonwealth Games and retains a close association to them – won’t attend in person after a number of mobility issues.

The 'love letter' to Birmingham also centred a message condemning anti-gay laws in Commonwealth countries.

Yes, people want independence but people still want to be a part of the Commonwealth Games. A city that famously boasts it doesn’t boast, might just have something to crow about in the days ahead... They only stepped in to stage these Games when South Africa’s Durban pulled out because of cost concerns. If you go into the Village and see the athletes together, it’s family, that’s how we speak and how we see each other. For too many years they’ve been held together by one woman, now 96, and this sports event. Birmingham’s quirky first-night show won’t have done any harm in that scrap.

The waiting is finally over … the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games officially open today. Diver Jack Laugher and weightlifter Emily Campbell are the Team ...

Sessions will contain all of the events listed but not necessarily in that order. - Finals (7pm-10pm – all races finals unless stated): Men’s 100m Freestyle; Women’s 200m Backstroke; Men’s 50m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Women’s 100m Freestyle Semi-Finals; Men’s 100m Butterfly Semi-Finals; Women’s 200m Individual Medley; Men’s 50m Freestyle S7; Women’s 100m Breaststroke SB6; Men’s 50m Backstroke; Women’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay. - Finals (7pm-10:15pm – all races finals unless stated): Men’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 50m Breaststroke; Men’s 200m Freestyle; Women’s 50m Freestyle Semi-Finals; Men’s 50m Freestyle S13; Women’s 50m Freestyle S13; Men’s 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals; Women’s 100m Backstroke Semi-Finals; Men’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 100m Butterfly; Men’s 100m Backstroke; Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay. - Heats (10:30am-12:15pm): Men’s 200m Freestyle; Women’s 50m Freestyle, Men’s 50m Freestyle S13; Women’s 50m Freestyle S13; Men’s 100m Breaststroke; Women’s 100m Backstroke; Men’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay; Men’s 200m Breaststroke; Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay. - Heats (10:30am-1:15pm): Men’s 400m Freestyle; Women’s 400m Individual Medley; Women’s 200m Freestyle; Men’s 100m Backstroke S9; Women’s 100m Freestyle S9; Men’s 50m Butterfly; Women’s 50m Breaststroke; Men’s 100m Backstroke; Women’s 100m Butterfly; Men’s 200m Breaststroke; Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay. Tag us into your social posts and let us know how you’re cheering on Team England’s swimmers and divers.

72 countries are sending more than 5000 athletes to compete across 280 events at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

That’s before you even mention cycling’s road race, a bumper day of boxing finals and Laura Muir in the 1500m. We’ll also see the mountain bike and squash finals. - Monday 1 August: The first lawn bowls final, men’s triples, could feature “Wonder Bowler” Nick Brett, while judo makes its return to Commonwealth Games action. - Friday 29 July: England’s Georgia Taylor-Brown battles Bermudan Flora Duffy in the triathlon. - Netball - Hockey

Spectators enjoy the atmosphere prior to the Opening Ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games at Alexander Stadium · Spectators pose for a photo ahead ...

Highlights included dance performances, drag queen Ginny Lemon in a lemon-shaped hot air balloon, fireworks displays, a union jack assembled by cars, and a captivating display with a 10-metre-tall raging bull. Here are some of the very best pictures from the opening ceremony. The best pictures from the spectacular 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Birmingham

On October 7th last year, this specially created Baton left Buckingham Palace to travel across the Commonwealth. Over the past 294 days, it has carried not ...

Your hard work and dedication, particularly in recent times, have been an inspiration to all of us. It is a city symbolic of the rich diversity and unity of the Commonwealth, and one which now welcomes you all in friendship. Over the years, the coming together of so many for the ‘Friendly Games’ has created memorable shared experiences, established long standing relationships, and even created some friendly rivalries!

Organisers are predicting the 22nd edition of the Games will be the best attended staged in the UK, with 1.3million tickets sold ahead of the curtain-raiser ...

Table tennis and para table tennis: 9am to 2.30pm and 4pm to 9pm Boxing: 12pm to 3pm and 6.30pm to 9pm Hockey: 9am to 12.30pm, 2pm to 5.30pm and 7pm to 10.30pm Rugby Sevens: 9am to 1.30pm and 5.30pm to 10pm Badminton: 9am to 12.30pm, 2pm to 5.30pm and 7pm to 10.30pm Gymnastics: 9am to 2.30pm and 5pm to 10.30pm

Here's how to watch a netball live stream at the 2022 Commonwealth Games from anywhere, with Australia eyeing up revenge against hosts and reigning ...

The software is generally ideal for this as it allows you to change your IP address and appear to be in a completely different location - and all through a safe, encrypted connection. Take a look at the CBC Sports schedule (opens in new tab) for full details of what's on and when. CBC Sports' Commonwealth Games coverage starts as late (or early) as 2am ET / 11pm PT on some days, with live streams continuing into the afternoons. CBC Sports (opens in new tab) (CA) Ranked at No.1 and with Gretel Bueta in the kill zone, there's no doubt that the reigning Quad Series champions are the favourites. For decades, Australia and New Zealand have enjoyed total dominance of the netball court, but after England's shock victory in the Diamonds' backyard four years ago, are we standing on the brink of a major power shift?

Day one of the games gets underway · England's Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, both Olympic individual silver medallists, go for triathlon glory · Women's T20 ...

I'm so excited just to get out in front of a home crowd again, because you don't get it that often, especially in London." Kenny, who will also compete in the scratch race and points race this weekend, added: "I just feel so relaxed about the whole situation. More than 5,000 athletes representing 72 nations and territories will compete in 280 medal events until 8 August. I don't know whether it is because I never really thought the Commonwealth Games was going to be a target, because we were planning on having another little one by now, but I feel more relaxed than ever. Obviously not meaning to, but I think it made us realise that cycling is one thing, but life is another. "It is a city symbolic of the rich diversity and unity of the Commonwealth, and one which now welcomes you all in friendship," the message said. First day at Birmingham 2022 and I'm in... Kenny said she just wanted to enjoy the occasion having had a horrendous winter during which she suffered a miscarriage followed by an ectopic pregnancy. Kenny, who made her name at those Games, is now Britain's most successful female Olympian of course. "It put lots of things into perspective," she said. And England's quartet have just got their run started. When we spoke earlier this week Kenny said she had no idea.

The Opening Ceremony welcomed this year's athletes with a theatrical narrative exploring the rich and diverse history, culture and identity of Birmingham and ...

Throughout its history, Birmingham has been enriched by its embrace of generations of Commonwealth communities, emerging as the multicultural city that it is today. The Opening Ceremony signals the start of 11 days of spectacular sport, with 4,500 of the Commonwealth’s finest athletes competing across 19 sports and eight para sports, in the largest event ever to be staged in the West Midlands region. The Opening Ceremony welcomed this year’s athletes with a theatrical narrative exploring the rich and diverse history, culture and identity of Birmingham and the West Midlands. From early manufacturing and industry, through to innovation and cultural revolution, Artistic Director Iqbal Khan challenged not only conventional expressions of storytelling, but also the way Birmingham sees itself.

The opening ceremony for the XXII Commonwealth Games will take place this evening before the action commences tomorrow morning - and ahead of the ...

BBC Three: 7:05pm – 10:30pm Over 5,000 athletes from 72 countries or territories will compete for a total of 1,875 medals across 20 different sports. Athletes have descended upon Birmingham for the XXII Commonwealth Games ahead of an action-packed 10 days.

16 of those are on offer on day one as gymnastics, triathalon and netball all get underway on Friday. England will attempt to defend their men's team gymnastics ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Alex Yee is England’s best hope after Jonny Brownlie pulled out. Jamie Riddle and Tayler Reid are the two others up top with Wilde. The 2022 Commonwealth Games is underway after the opening ceremony took place last night to kick off 10 days of intense sporting action. Canada’s Summer McIntosh has cruised through her heat in the women’s 400m individual medley. Women’s T20 cricket makes its Commonwealth debut with a huge match as Australia take on India at Edgbaston before England battle Trinidad and Tobago to kick off their netball defence around midday.

With lawn bowls, badminton and triathlon all to come on day one, join Will Magee to follow the action in Birmingham.

How will the medal table look by the end of the day? Whatever happens, let’s hope that, in the words of Nadine Dorries, the Games “puts Birmingham on the map”. It was famously impossible to locate the United Kingdom’s second-largest city before today. She will be up against Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, who pipped her to a gold medal in Tokyo. His main rival is New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde, with both expected to end up on the podium. The lawn bowls and para lawn bowls are well under way. It has featured at every Games bar 1966, when it was dropped owing to the lack of available bowling greens in Kingston, Jamaica. Missed the opening ceremony last night? She’s spoken about her excitement at taking part in the Games and experiencing “a noisy home crowd”. England are up next, with Laura Kenny leading the charge. England are now 28-0 up and, to be honest, a Sri Lanka comeback seems quite unlikely. It’s nice of Boatman to give someone else a turn. They post the slowest time so far at 4:24.701.

The Olympic gold and silver medallist cruised to the line unchallenged after New Zealand's Hayden Wilde was forced to take a 10-second penalty.

To hold the gap to 15 seconds on the bike was pretty good and I felt confident I could do it. I am proud of my team. I have spent so many sessions doing the same hill so many times and when I got there it felt like I had done this race before.

England's Alex Yee has won the first gold medal of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, taking victory in the men's triathlon. | ITV News Central.

England’s Alex Yee has won the first gold medal of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, taking victory in the men’s triathlon. Yee, who's from Lewisham, grabbed England’s first gold medal of the Commonwealth Games with victory in the men’s triathlon at Sutton Park. Commonwealth Games: Alex Yee wins England’s first gold medal of Birmingham 2022

The opening ceremony featured more than 1500 professional and volunteer cast members who took part in 250 rehearsal sessions in the build-up to the Games.

“The young athletes who will compete over the next few weeks represent millions of girls and boys across the Commonwealth – our shared hope for the future. “Brummies are unique people. all your little faces smiling at me, black, brown, pink, white and sunburned from last week.” The two-and-a-half-hour spectacle revolved around Stella and The Dreamers, a group of young athletes from around the Commonwealth who travelled to the West Midlands for the Games. The raging bull was dragged into the stadium by female chainmakers – representing the woman of the industrial revolution who were underpaid and overworked. The show opened to the beat of African sakara drums, as the 72 Commonwealth representatives were summoned to the 2022 Games. Their arrival was signified by a plethora of miniature houses floating down from the sky.

Here's how to watch a T20 cricket live stream at the 2022 Commonwealth Games from anywhere, with England eyeing up home glory ahead of Alyssa Healy's mighty ...

CBC Sports (opens in new tab) (CA) Take a look at the CBC Sports schedule (opens in new tab) for full details of what's on and when. 7Plus (opens in new tab) (AU) The software is generally ideal for this as it allows you to change your IP address and appear to be in a completely different location - and all through a safe, encrypted connection. Follow our guide as we explain all the ways to live stream T20 cricket at the 2022 Commonwealth Games wherever you are. 24 years have passed since South Africa won the event’s only previous cricket competition, but with the Proteas team in disarray, it's going to take a near-miracle for them to repeat the feat.

England have claimed their first gold medal of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, with Alex Yee taking victory in the men's triathlon on the first day in ...

1 Experienced duo Frank Baines and Hamish Carter will hope to steer Scotland into at least the silver medal position, while Northern Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan attempts to qualify on pommel. Georgia Taylor-Brown, who also won an individual silver medal in Tokyo, was hoping to emulate Yee later on Friday in the women's event.

A daily sport-by-sport guide plus 10 events you won't want to miss at this year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

- Table tennis and para table tennis - 9.30am-1.15pm - Table tennis and para table tennis - 11am-4.30pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4.20pm There is an end-of-era feel about the hosts’ team in Birmingham with a number of veterans involved, and they will want to go out with a bang by winning gold again. - Triathlon and para triathlon - 11am-4pm The economics graduate only took up boxing aged 18, but six years on he is targeting the podium. The wheelchair racer has won seven Paralympic and 11 world titles, as well as multiple European golds, but this should be her first Commonwealth triumph. In his everyday life, Nick Brett is a humble civil servant. Her build-up has been hampered this year by medical issues, however. The opening ceremony got underway on Thursday evening.

Alex Yee grabbed England's first gold medal of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with victory in the men's triathlon at Sutton Park.

Over the course of his short career, Yee has established himself as arguably the best runner in the sport and bit by bit he dramatically pulled back the leaders. As Yee emerged from his swim 15 seconds from the lead, embedded within the main pack, he was charged with the task of chasing down the leaders in the 20km cycle. He finished the swim in third place, the leading pack of three with Jamie Riddle of South Africa and New Zealand’s Tayler Reid immediately distancing themselves.

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Daily highlights of the games will be presented by JJ Chalmers and Isa Guha on BBC One. Live radio coverage will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Sounds. The Games will be broadcast on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three. Coverage will also be broadcast on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and Red Button. How to watch Commonwealth Games 2022 highlights The BBC will provide coverage of the Games and will show over 200 hours of the action, across up to 11 livestreams. How to watch the Commonwealth Games 2022 on TV Going into the 2022 games it is Australia who are the most successful nation in the history of the competition.

Keep up to date with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games with medal tables, games schedule, volunteer jobs and tickets.

It was on the final hill when I made big inroads.” But we are good friends off the course." “It was weird with the hills.

Commonwealth Games 2022 triathlon: route, schedule, timetable, distances, results and when does it start? England's Alex Yee won the first gold medal of the ...

- Run - 4 laps of 2km (1 per athlete) - Cycle - 4 laps of 5km (1 per athlete) - Each individual athlete will complete 4 laps of the cycling course, except for the mixed relay event in which each athlete will complete a single lap.

Para-sport is fully integrated into the Games. The athletes, in 27 sports and eight Para-sports, will compete across 15 venues in and around Birmingham. Venues ...

The Games have been held every four years since 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, cancelled because of the second world war. Until 1950 they were known as the British Empire Games. The previous Commonwealth Games in 2018 were held on the Gold Coast in Australia, while the 2026 Games will also be held Down Under, in Melbourne and the surrounding state of Victoria. Over 11 days of action, about 6,500 competitors and officials from 72 nations and territories are participating in the 22nd Commonwealth Games. It is the biggest multi-sport event to be held in the UK since the 2012 London Olympics.

Alex Yee has already won gold for Team England, but there is plenty more action on the way across 11 days in Birmingham.

The world’s best bowler in both one-day internationals and T20s, Sophie Ecclestone will be key to England’s hopes of winning the inaugural Commonwealth women’s cricket title. The Northern Ireland gymnast was almost prevented from defending his crown, initially excluded from the games by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) because he has represented Ireland in major competitions. Few would have predicted that result in an event where Australia and New Zealand had contested every previous final, but if England are to repeat the feat, they will need more heroics from Housby, who plays her club netball in Australia. The correct answer is Alex ‘Tattie’ Marshall, a five-time lawn bowls gold medallist who heads to Birmingham 2022 for his seventh Commonwealth Games, having overhauled Wells as Scotland’s greatest four years ago. The Team Scotland athlete now faces the not inconsiderable challenge of backing up that performance in Birmingham as he looks to upgrade the bronze he won in Gold Coast. She now heads to Birmingham to compete for Team Wales on the road as the mother of a four-month-old baby boy. Netball, cricket and hockey finals within a matter of hours promise an unforgettable day of team sport. Saturday 6 August: A massive middle-distance day at the Alexander Stadium as newly-crowned world champion Jake Wightman takes on all comers in the morning 1500m and Keely Hodgkinson tops the bill in the evening’s 800m. World mountain bike champion Evie Richards, from the Malvern Hills, will be favourite for gold in her own backyard and all-conquering Kiwi Paul Coll is the star attraction in squash finals. You don’t need to look far for inspiration as refugee weightlifter Cyrille Tchatchet and Craig Bowler – a para-athlete by name and by nature, who bowls with one arm and neither leg – go for gold. The pool is graced by Maisie Summers-Newton, Australia’s five-time Olympic champion Emma McKeon and her pop star boyfriend Cody Simpson with his 4.6m Instagram followers in tow – surely the most here. Friday 29 July: Triathlon takes over bucolic Sutton Park where England’s Georgia Taylor-Brown battles Bermudan Flora Duffy. They went one-two in Tokyo and occupy those same spots in world rankings.

Team England will not sing the UK's national anthem in Birmingham.

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