Sports
The current regulations state that from the 26 approved sports administered by Commonwealth Governing Bodies, a minimum of ten core sports and maximum of seventeen sports must be included in any Commonwealth Games schedule. The current approved sports include the 10 core sports: athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Hockey, lawn bowls, netball (for women) and rugby sevens (for men), Squash, swimming & Weightlifting. Integrated disabled competitions are also proposed for the Games in several events including: Swimming, Athletics, Cycling, Table Tennis and possibly Cycling, Powerlifting and Lawn Bowls, with the medals being added to the final tally for each nation.The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) have stepped up their plans to get Cricket included on the sports programme at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, admitting that they are hopeful it could feature as early as the 2018 competition in the Gold Coast.
There are a total of 17 disciplines planned for the 2018 Commonwealth Games:
- Aquatics
- Swimming
- Diving
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Cycling
- Road
- Track
- Mountain
- Gymnastics
- Artistic
- Rhythmic
- Hockey
- Lawn Bowls
- Netball
- Rugby sevens
- Shooting (Small Bore Rifle, Full Bore Rifle, Pistol and Clay Target)
- Squash
- Table Tennis
- Triathlon
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
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