In preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, the Pakistan Squash Federation has invited 12 players to a training camp at the Mushaf Squash Complex starting on Monday.
Trainees include Pakistani number one Shahid Zaman and team mates Mansoor Zaman, Amjad Khan, Safeerullah Khan, Aamir Atlis Khan, Yasir Butt, Farhan Mehboob, Khayal Muhammad, Basit Ashfaq, Shahmsh-ur-Rehman […]
The Queens Baton Relay is the world’s longest, most inclusive relay with will travel more than 180,000 kilometres and will visit all 71 nations of the Commonwealth over the course of 366 days.
The Queens Baton Relay started off in London on the 14th of March 2005 and travelled 231km to Cardiff in Wales on […]
Zimbabwe will not be represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne because they have been suspended from the Commonwealth due to human rights violations.
Tatiana Grigorieva is hoping to vault herself into the Australian Commonwealth Games team. The 2000 Olympic Pole Vault silver medalist has been training hard in Europe and will be back in Australia mid January to compete in two or three competitions as well as the selection trials in early February.
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Welsh Marathon runner Tracey Morris has proven to the selectors that she is fit again after winning the Bedford half-marathon last week in 76.36.
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Bermuda are set to take in excess of 20 athletes to Melbourne next year to represent the tiny country in half a dozen sports and with the cut off for qualifying not until late January, a larger contingent is still possible.
The team could have been bigger had it not been for a ruling […]
Fijian winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca will not be representing his country in Melbourne due to being banned for twelve months by the Fijian Rugby Union failing to turn out for Fiji in August againgst New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga.
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Another of Australia’s cyclists may miss out on the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne due to his professional obligations. Brad McGee who races for his French team FDJ.com would be the third Australian Cyclist to withdraw from the Games because of a professional career. Cadel Evans and Michael Rogers have already missed out on […]
Fiji plans to field the best side in Melbourne as members of their winning team from the Sevens World Cup make themselves available for selection.
Fiji has twice won the 7s World Cup but has been unlucky at their three attempts to bring home the gold from the Commonwealth Games.
Six boxers have been named in the New Zealand team to box at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March including one who was part of a large media bashing during the Athens Olympics.
Soulan Pownceby, who was sentenced to four years in jail for killing his five month old daughter in 1995 was plauged by […]
Caribbean welterweight champion Courtney Simister made a successful return to the ring on the weekend and has his sites set firmly on Melbourne.
“The Commonwealth box-off is a must,” Simister told journalists after he beat Anthony Williams of Job Walters Gym at ‘Saturday Night at the Fights’, put on by the Jamaica Boxing Board at Oakton […]
Two of Australia’s best road cyclists will miss out on representing their country at home because their professional teams have refused to release them.
Cadel Evans who finished 8th in the Tour de France and triple world champion Michael Rogers weren’t able to convince their teams Davitamon-Lotto and T-Mobile that they should be allowed […]
New Zealand Marathon runner John Henwood is fuming that Athletics New Zealand isn’t sending him to Melbourne to compete at the Commonwealth Games after he finished 5 seconds short of the qualifying time, coming 13th in the New York Marathon.
Henwood, who was not given funding, chose to race at the harder New York Marathon for […]
English Swimmer Mark Foster is looking to equal Cambridge weightlifter David Morgan’s record of 6 consecutive Commonwealth Games medals.
Foster won his first medal in Edinburgh in 1986 with a bronze in the relay and now has 46 medals that he’s won over the years from various championships and aims to have 50 before he retires. […]
New regulations for Melbourne 2006 athletes means they must have nationality status if they want to compete for that country. Prviously competitors only had to have lived in that country for three years.
An appeal was rejected by the Commonwealth Games executive after the Cayman Islands had wanted foreign expats who were working there in […]
Track and Field stars from Britain have been told by their coach that the Commonwealth Games are second rate and that they should focus on the European Championships next August instead.
UK Athletics’ performance director won’t even be at the Games in Melbourne in march and is threatening funding cuts to any athlete who doesn’t perform […]
The team for the Commonwealth Games from Wales have run into some cash-flow problems with less than three months before the Games open in Melbourne. While there is £750,000 budgeted for the team, the Welsh Assembly Government is withholding £150,000, £25,000 of which the team will recieve on January 1 with the remainder not […]
When Bahamas 400m hurdler made herself unavailable for selection, Commonwealth Games defending champion Jana Pittman’s chances of bringing home consecutive gold medals for Australia improved.
While punters have paid up to $590 for tickets to the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne on the 15th of March, 2006, 80,000 people will get a sneak preview two days earlier. Tens of thousands of others will also be locked inside on the 10th of March for the first dress […]
400m Hurdle sensation Andrea Blackett has announced she will not be taking part at next year’s Commonwealth Games.
The 29 year old has had a very busy year and believes that adding a major boost in regular preparation would be detrimental in getting ready for the Games. Blackett is planning on taking a mental break […]