Ahmedabad is the key city in Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat, home to a 130,000-seater arena which is the world\u2019s biggest cricket stadium. The venue is named after the Indian premier.<\/p>\n
Modi said he was \u201cdelighted\u201d and that India looks \u201cforward to welcoming the world\u201d.<\/p>\n
The executive board announced in October that Ahmedabad was its preferred choice following a rival bid from Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Ahmedabad is the second Indian city to stage the Commonwealth Games, following Delhi in 2010, which was meant to showcase India\u2019s status as an emerging global power.<\/p>\n
However, they were marred instead by construction delays, budget overruns and corruption allegations that saw the head of the organising committee jailed.<\/p>\n
The future existence of the event was in doubt last year when the movement struggled to find a replacement host for 2026 after the Australian state of Victoria withdrew for cost reasons.<\/p>\n
Daniel Andrews, the then Premier of Victoria, said two years ago that an initial estimate of A$2 billion ($2.2b) needed to hold the Games would more likely be around A$7 billion, which he called \u201cwell and truly too much\u201d.<\/p>\n
Glasgow stepped in and will stage a slimmed-down version of the multi-sport format, meaning that Britain will have hosted two editions in a row, after Birmingham in 2022.<\/p>\n
In an age of increasing continental, regional and world championships across numerous sports, there have long been questions about the relevance of the Commonwealth Games, an event restricted to an international association where the vast majority of competing countries were once territories of the British Empire.<\/p>\n
But Dr Donald Rukare, president of Commonwealth Sport, said on Wednesday: \u201cIndia brings scale, youth, ambition, rich culture, enormous sporting passion and relevance, and I\u2019m delighted to report strong interest from a range of nations to host the 2034 Games and beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe start our next century for the Commonwealth Games in good health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commonwealth Sport added that between 15 to 17 sports will feature at the 2030 Games, which follows a programme review.<\/p>\n
Athletics and para-athletics, swimming and para-swimming, table tennis and para table tennis, bowls and para bowls, weightlifting and para powerlifting, artistic gymnastics, netball and boxing have all been included.<\/p>\n
The remainder of the programme is set to be finalised, with Ahmedabad able to either propose up to two new or \u201ctraditional\u201d sports.<\/p>\n
Among those under consideration are T20 cricket, hockey, wrestling, badminton, archery, rugby sevens, 3×3 basketball, cycling and diving.<\/p>\n
A successful Commonwealth Games would strengthen any bid by India, the world\u2019s most populous nation, to stage an Olympic Games, with the next two Summer editions set for Los Angeles (2028) and Brisbane (2032).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmedabad is the key city in Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat, home to a 130,000-seater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42790,74,33297,275,102920,2199,51038,2223,51691,6489,6288,14236,12022,78,76912,5501,42489,111,139,69,213,5433,61,1680,1533,1530],"class_list":["post-155092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-42790","tag-after","tag-ahmedabad","tag-canada","tag-centenary","tag-city","tag-commonwealth","tag-confirmed","tag-edition","tag-games","tag-hamilton","tag-held","tag-host","tag-in","tag-inaugural","tag-indian","tag-multisport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-stage","tag-to","tag-wednesday","tag-will","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}