Commonwealth Games: Gold Coast ready to step in as 2026 hosts, says mayor Tom Tate

Hosts Australia topped the medal array astatine Gold Coast 2018 with 198 medals - 80 of them gold

Gold Coast is acceptable to measurement successful to signifier the 2026 Commonwealth Games aft the state of Victoria pulled out, said politician Tom Tate.

Tate says hosting the Commonwealth Games volition assistance those preparations.

His rescue program is "fully supported" by Athletics Australia - the country's sporting governing body.

"We firmly judge the metropolis is successful a unsocial presumption to measurement forward," said Athletics Australia.

"As witnessed successful 2018, the Gold Coast demonstrated its singular quality to big a Games of exceptional quality, and 1 that near a profound interaction connected Australian sport.

"With an accidental to marque an interaction connected athletes aiming for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we firmly judge that the city... [can] sphere the tone of the Commonwealth Games."

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) struggled to find a big earlier Victoria stepped guardant successful April 2022.

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews announced connected Tuesday the determination to propulsion retired arsenic hosts, saying the outgo had tripled and go "well and genuinely excessively much" for the authorities to bear.

Birmingham agreed to big the 2022 Commonwealth Games aft the South African metropolis of Durban had to measurement down successful March 2017 due to the fact that of fiscal constraints.

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