Australia's Victoria withdraws as host of 2026 Commonwealth Games

Category : Sports Published on: July 20 2023

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The Australian state of Victoria withdrew as hosts of the 2026 edition of the Commonwealth Games after citing a steep rise in projected expenditure to host the Games.
Since 1930, Australia has hosted five of the 22 editions.
Australia has held the Commonwealth Games five times - including on the Gold Coast in 2018 and in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in 2006.
The Gold Coast was part of the southeast Queensland bid that in 2021 was awarded rights to the 2032 Olympics.
Victoria 2026 was supposed to be the third CWG event they hosted since 2006.
The Commonwealth Games are a multi-sport tournament that take place every four years. They have only ever been cancelled during World War Two.
To be eligible to participate in the games, competitors must be from one of the Commonwealth's 56 members. Most of the countries in the Commonwealth were once part of the British Empire.
The Commonwealth Games started out as the British Empire Games in 1930 at Hamilton, Canada, and since 1978 has operated under its current branding.
England, Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Jamaica, Scotland, Malaysia and India have hosted the Games, which are staged every four years and involve teams from 54 members of the Commonwealth network and 17 overseas territories and island states.