Hosts are pulling out, costs are spiralling and the PR is a challenge: will the post-colonial festival of sport find a way to secure its future? The last time the Commonwealth Games was struggling to find a replacement host, after Durban was stripped of the event in 2017, it had help from an unlikely source: Buckingham Palace. An insider picks up the story. "The Palace went to the government and said: 'It's the Queen's jubilee in 2022, you need to do something,'" he tells the Guardian. "UK Sport...
Out of time? Unloved Commonwealth Games faces uphill battle to survive
The Guardian - 4 Dec 2023 22:00
Hosts are pulling out, costs are spiralling and the PR is a challenge: will the post-colonial festival of sport find a way to secure its future? The last time the Commonwealth Games was struggling to find a replacement host, after Durban was stripped of the event in 2017, it had help from an unlikely source: Buckingham Palace. An insider picks up the story. "The Palace went to the government and said: 'It's the Queen's jubilee in 2022, you need to do something,'" he tells the Guardian. "UK Sport...
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