Who is hosting 2019 commonwealth games

Rwanda Commonwealth Games Association president, Valens Munyabagisha says the event coming to Rwanda will foster the shared sporting, social and economic development of the Commonwealth. File photo. Twitter Facebook Email Whatsapp linkedin. For news tips and story ideas please click here.

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Koffi Olomide to perform in Kigali next month. Govt mulls re-opening Umuganda exercise. Fear of missing out? Subscribe now to. Martin has said herself that the Commonwealth Games have been in an existential crisis for the last decade. A pithier quote was attributed to Usain Bolt while he was caught standing in the rain in a car park outside the athletes village at Glasgow in There are reasons to love the Commonwealth Games, even beyond a fondness for watching elite lawn bowls, like the way they provide young athletes with exposure to championship competition before the Olympics.

Either way, it seems that Birmingham will likely be the last Games on anything like that scale. It is a genuinely radical plan, which speaks, in itself, to the severity of the problem. The number of sports included in the Games will be cut to 15, and only two of them, athletics and swimming, will be mandatory.

The others will be drawn from a long list of core sports, or be local events selected because of their popularity in the host nation. E-sports and mass participation events have both been mentioned. Others smack of genuine desperation about the future of a Games that increasingly feels as though its time has passed.