A journalist accused of trying to smuggle eight Indian farmers into Australia by using fake media credentials for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games has had the charges against him dropped.
Birmingham City Council has named Australian company Lendlease Ltd as the principal contractor for the Athletes' Village being built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Perry Barr.
Former amateur boxer Conor Wallace has dropped a High Court case in which he was seeking damages after being dropped from Northern Ireland’s team for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Alexander Ratner, the new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) secretary general, has spelt out the thinking behind the decision for both him and Vladimir Lisin, the new President, to put their weight behind shooting’s push for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham today, arguing that the sport should be in "all the major competitions".
Shooting will still need to do a lot of persuading if it is to convince organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to change their minds and include it on the programme after they initially decided to omit it.
A report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent observers (IO) team has claimed the anti-doping structure in place at this year's Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast is an example of how the system should operate at other major events.
The new International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) leadership will visit the United Kingdom next week to promote shooting sport’s case for a place at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
More than 500 people from local businesses have attended a Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games briefing at the city's International Convention Centre (ICC) to hear about how they could benefit from the largest sporting and cultural event ever to be held in the West Midlands region.
Women's cricket could feature at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed it had submitted a bid for the Twenty20 version of the sport to be included at the event.
Officials from the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) will conduct site visits to Gibraltar and Trinidad and Tobago in the first quarter of next year after the Executive Board voiced its approval for the two candidates in the running to host the 2021 Youth Games.
Discussions on the process to select Belfast's replacement as hosts of the 2021 Youth Games is set to be the key item on the agenda when the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) holds an Executive Board meeting in Singapore tomorrow.
Commonwealth Games Australia named the former head of Triathlon Australia Ben Houston as their new President at their 2018 Annual General Meeting in Melbourne.
Commonwealth Games England (CGE) have agreed a partnership with Run Communications as they look forward to Birmingham 2022.
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee has invited regional businesses to a special event to provide an update on procurement and supply-chain opportunities.
Scotland's Commonwealth Games boxing medallist Stephen Lavelle, who urinated on two teenage girls in a Gold Coast nightclub and then got into a fight with a man who confronted him, has been found guilty of assault but avoided being sent to jail.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) - Deputy Director, Education - Montreal, Canada
Reporting to the Director of Education and Communications, the Deputy Director, Education will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of WADA’s strategic education priorities, programs and activities; including, managing WADA’s Social Science Research Grant Program and coordinating the activities of WADA’s Education Committee.
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