Commonwealth Games
♦ The organisers of the 2026 edition of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games confirmed on 22 October 2024 that badminton, cricket, hockey, squash, table tennis, and wrestling were excluded from the Games' programme. ♦ The disciplines that will be part of Glasgow Games are athletics and para-athletics (track & field), swimming and para-swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling and para track cycling, netball, weightlifting and para powerlifting, boxing, judo, bowls and para bowls, and 3x3 basketball and 3x3 wheelchair basketball. ♦ The 2026 edition, featuring only 10 sports and roughly 3,000 athletes, will take place from July 23 to August 2, 2026. The Games will take place across four venues - Scotstoun stadium, Tollcross International swimming centre, Emirates arena - including the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome, and the Scottish Event Campus (SEC). Glasgow will be CWG ‘lite’ since the previous edition in Birmingham had 19 sports and almost 5,000 athletes. ♦ At the 2022 CWG, India had won 61 medals, including 22 gold. Wrestling (12), weightlifting (10), athletics (8), boxing and table tennis (7 each) contributed the most to the overall tally. ♦ Hockey had been a part of CWG since 1998 and India have been the second-best team in the Games' history, with the men and women's teams securing six medals - including one gold, four silver and a bronze. In Birmingham, Indian men finished second while the women settled for bronze.