Commonwealth Games is a sporting event that takes place after every 4 years. The participating countries are all Commonwealth Countries who were erstwhile British colonies. The games to be hosted by Delhi are 19th on the line with the first commonwealth games taking place in 1930 in Hamilton (Canada) as British Empire Games. The new Avatar of the game took shape in 1974.
The 12 Day sporting extravaganza, biggest in Delhi since 1982 Asiad Games, kickstarts on 3rd October 2010 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.8500 athletes from 85 Commonwealth nations would fight it out for top honours for 17 sporting events.
The official Mascot of the game is “Shera”, the Royal Bengal Tiger while the official Logo of 2010 Commonwealth Games is an upward spiraling wheel inspired by the Ashok Chakra. The motto of the game is "Come out and Play".
Logo and Mascot of 2010 Commonwealth Games
Courtesy: Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi
New Delhi is gearing up at a tremendous speed to ready its infrastructure, transport, communication facilities well in time to host the second biggest sporting event in the sporting history after Olympics.
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