Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

[Mikey]

Discuss the Commonwealth Games here!

The Opening Ceremony is tomorrow at 20:00 BST broadcasting live from Celtic Park, Celtic Football Club's home ground. The event will from the 23 July to 3 August 2014.



Going to put some facts and figures below to make this thread look amazing!

• The first Commonwealth Games took place in Hamilton, Canada in 1930. Four hundred athletes from eleven countries competed over 6 sports and 59 events.
  
• Scotland has previously hosted the event twice, in 1970 and 1986, both in Edinburgh.
  
• There will be 6,500 athletes from 71 nations competing in 17 sports over 11 days. In the original Commonwealth Games, only 400 athletes from 11 countries took part.
  
• The Queen's Baton Relay tomorrow night will have covered 190,000KM across the Commonwealth. That's the equivalent of going around the Earth's surface almost 4.25 times.

I will be a volunteer for the games as a Press Tribune team member for the Squash and Table Tennis. I'm really looking forward to my volunteering and seeing all the events! Also it's in my home city so that's a bonus.

[Mark]

Sorry to be a kill joy but am I the only one who's really not phased by the games?

[SackRace]

Good thread Mikey but I agree with Mark. The games don't really interest me at all but yesterday I did go to do some shopping yesterday in the city and I have never seen it so busy. Hopefully it brings much needed money into Scotland.

[Matt]

They're broadcasting it quite a bit over here in Australia and they've been interviewing quite a few aussie athletes leading up to the opening ceremony. No doubt they'll keep us all up to date on Australia's performance!

Hope you have fun volunteering Mikey, it sounds like a great opportunity! Have fun

[dbgtz]

Sorry to be a kill joy but am I the only one who's really not phased by the games?

Weren't you going to volunteer at one stage?

I'll probably watch the opening ceremony then not bother.

[buttons]

Sorry to be a kill joy but am I the only one who's really not phased by the games?

i don't even think iv heard of them until this year lmao n no don't care about it

[Mark]

Weren't you going to volunteer at one stage?

I'll probably watch the opening ceremony then not bother.

Yeah I was but I didn't fancy it so didn't go to the next stage of the process. Yeah likewise.

[Zak]

Never knew the commonwealth games were now a charity event...

[SackRace]

Start of the opening ceremony was such an embarrassment. Cringey as

[Mikey]

I liked it haha! Really well done, seen the Fireworks at the end from my house and the Red Arrows passed my house too.