The Last "Original Games"
1994 was also the last time Team Sports were excluded, The Commonwealth Games Federation deemed the current set up of ten sports as obsolete and from 1998 allowed team sports such as Rugby Sevens, Basketball, and Hockey to be added. This was to encourage revenue streams from television by making the games more attractive to TV networks.
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