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Commonwealth Games
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Commonwealth Games

Multisport gathering of competitors from British Commonwealth countries, held every four years. The first meeting (known as the British Empire Games) was in Hamilton, Canada, in August 1930. It has been held in Britain on five occasions: London in 1934, Cardiff in 1958, Edinburgh in 1970 and 1986, and Manchester in 2002.
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The keen rugby and soccer player, who would go on to become Olympic, World and Commonwealth long jump champion, said it was watching Merriman's performance against Australian Dave Power in the Empire Games in Cardiff that inspired him.
Games win would inspire Welsh sport by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Creighton Redman, David Young, Keith Shackell and Roger Pope won the coxless fours race at the British Empire Games - these days of course known as the Commonwealth Games - when they were held in Cardiff in July 1958.
Champion oarsmen in golden reunion by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
4 ELEVEN nations participated in the first British Empire Games in Hamilton, Canada, in 1930.
Games gossip by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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