Canadian province Alberta cancels bid for 2030 Commonwealth Games

The authorities of Alberta has pulled its enactment for a bid to big the 2030 Commonwealth Games owed to rising costs.

A associated bid was being considered by the Canadian province, centred astir the cities of Edmonton and Calgary.

Tourism Minister Joseph Schow said the measure was estimated astatine $2.6bn (£2m) - a load "too precocious for the state to bear".

It comes a week aft Australia pulled retired of hosting the 2026 games successful Victoria owed to fund blowouts.

The archetypal program was to big the games implicit 11 days successful August 2030 with competitions and events dispersed betwixt Calgary and Edmonton, arsenic good arsenic the Tsuut'ina Nation and Enoch Cree Nation.

In a connection Mr Schow said: "The firm sponsorship exemplary and constricted broadcast revenues for the Commonwealth Games would person enactment 93% of those costs and risks connected taxpayers.

"We committed to stay transparent with Albertans astir the costs of hosting planetary sporting events and intelligibly demonstrating a instrumentality connected our concern for the radical and communities successful Alberta.

"That is wherefore we person made the determination not to proceed pursuing the bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games."