{"id":556787,"date":"2026-08-02T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556787\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:38:08","slug":"as-it-happened-curtain-comes-down-on-glasgow-commonwealth-games-at-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556787\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Curtain comes down on Glasgow Commonwealth Games at closing ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The Glasgow Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close with a colourful closing ceremony at OVO Hydro, where hours before the Silver Ferns took netball gold over Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">New Zealand finished the event with 10 gold medals, 14 silver and 12 bronze, and a sixth place on the medal table behind Australia, England, Canada, India and hosts Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">While the tally fell short of the 20 gold at Birmingham four years ago, or 58 medals at Auckland 1990, these &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/781186\/re-imagined-commonwealth-games-officially-open-as-king-charles-arrives-in-tardis\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">re-imagined<\/a>&#8216; Games featured half as many sports as Birmingham and the least number of medal events in almost 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The NZ team were exactly half the number of that at Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Though the past four years have placed the future of the Games in doubt, the next are already locked in for Ahmedabad 2030 in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Beyond that, New Zealand is exploring a possible hosting bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Recap the action from the closing ceremony here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Glasgow Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close with a colourful closing ceremony at OVO Hydro, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-556787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556787","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=556787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}