The Commonwealth Games

                                                     Commonwealth Games

My Prior Knowledge of The Commonwealth Games

I know that The Commonwealth Games are just like Olympics but a bit different because the Commonwealth Games are only for certain countries and they are also known as the British Empire Games. The Commonwealth Games have the similar style of events and sports as Olympics.

My New Knowledge of The Commonwealth Games

I learnt that the roots of the Commonwealth Games go back over 140 years. The Commonwealth Games started in 1930 in the Canadian city, Hamilton.

The fourth Commonwealth Games 1950 was held in Auckland, New Zealand for the first time.

The Commonwealth Games Federation Flag is known as the CGF.

Nigeria was the first country to object to the Commonwealth Games in 1978 in protest over New Zealand’s sporting contacts with South Africa and the name British Empire Games was changed to what it is now. The Commonwealth Games contains over two billion people, almost a third of the world’s population and over half of them are young people under the age of 25. The motto of the Commonwealth Games is Humanity, Equality, Destiny.

There will be 71 nations and territories  competing in 17 sports over 11 days. This year the Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland on the 24th July 2014 and the next Commonwealth Games 2018 will be in the Gold Coast, Australia.

Evaluation

I now know when the Commonwealth Games started (1930) and Canada, Hamilton which was the first country that held it. I learnt from my present knowledge how the Commonwealth Games Flag looks like and know  that it’s called CGF which is the abbreviation for The Commonwealth Games Federation. I learnt that the Commonwealth Games motto is Humanity, Equality, Destiny.