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In this edition of The insidethegames.biz Magazine, senior reporter Geoff Berkeley speaks to Birmingham 2022’s big names to find out how they negotiated the complicated road which was in front of them in No Hurdle Too High.

Commonwealth Games Federation President Dame Louise Martin, Birmingham 2022 chief executive Ian Reid and Birmingham City Council leader Ian Ward all explain how the dream of “Brum” hosting the event turned into a reality.

In New Hosts Needed, Chief Columnist David Owen considers the opportunity for new venues to stake their claim as suitable hosts for sporting events in the absence of both China and Russia.





The Commonwealth Games evoke a cordial spirit that the much larger Olympics can never hope to match. Chief feature writer Mike Rowbottom takes us through the history of The Friendly Games, a sporting event like no other.

The Darkest Day, written by Philip Barker our Olympic historian, takes us back 50 years to events which changed the Olympic Movement forever following the terrorist attack at Munich in 1972.

In his article Walk The Plank, Geoff Berkeley asks what role the Global Association of International Sports Federations has left to play in sport with the International Olympic Committee pushing for the body to be disbanded.

Commonwealth Gaming, written by Junior reporter Eliott Brennan, looks at esports events and talks to those in charge about what could become a regular feature at future editions of the Commonwealth Games.





Desk editor Vimal Sankar charts the rise in the use of the latest social media phenomenon in TikTok On The Clock!

London 2012 captured the hearts of a nation and left a warm feeling in both the host country and the Olympic Movement. Mike Rowbottom takes us back in time, in his article Ten Years Since London, and asks if the legacy goals of the Games have been met.

In his article Merrier and Less Stern Mike Rowbottom explores what makes the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games different, and why they deserve their “friendly” tag.

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