{"id":840665,"date":"2026-08-02T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:48:10","slug":"commonwealth-games-officially-over-after-epic-closing-ceremony-featuring-delta-goodrem-and-simple-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840665\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games officially over after epic closing ceremony featuring Delta Goodrem and Simple Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">There\u2019s an Indian dance group on stage now as part of the official handover from Glasgow 2026 to Amdavad 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The city, known as Ahmedabad, will host the centenary Games, honouring 100 years of history since the 1930 British Empire Games hosted by Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Amdavad 2030 is expected to host additional sports compared to the pared-back Glasgow program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Field hockey and table tennis are set to return after being dropped from this year\u2019s Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">India last hosted the Commonwealth Games with Delhi 2010 and took full advantage, finishing second on the medal table &#8211; with 38 golds &#8211; behind only Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an Indian dance group on stage now as part of the official handover from Glasgow 2026 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,16742,134,1625,3863,588],"class_list":["post-840665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-entertainment","tag-lifestyle","tag-sponsored-content","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}