Sports announced for Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games

Track cycling and boxing are among the events that volition beryllium included successful the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, it has been revealed.

A stripped-back programme of 10 sports, announced connected Tuesday, besides includes athletics and swimming arsenic mandatory - but badminton and hockey person been dropped.

The games, past held successful Glasgow successful 2014 astatine a outgo of implicit £540m, volition beryllium held crossed across 4 venues betwixt 23 July and 2 August 2026.

Glasgow stepped successful to big aft the Australian authorities of Victoria pulled retired owed to rising costs.

A full of 3,000 of athletes from up to 74 Commonwealth nations and territories are expected to vie astatine the 2026 games.

The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic "fully integrated para competitions” crossed six of the selected sports.

Katie Sadleir, main enforcement of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), said: "The games committedness to beryllium a genuinely immersive festival of athletics and solemnisation of civilization and diverseness that inspires athletes and sports – with a instrumentality acquisition much accessible than ever before."

First Minister John Swinney said the lawsuit is an breathtaking accidental for the radical of Scotland.

He said: “While Glasgow 2026 volition look rather antithetic to erstwhile games, we can, and we must, usage this arsenic an accidental to enactment collaboratively to guarantee that this caller conception brings a beardown and sustainable aboriginal for the games."

The CGF said the a fig of factors, including "universality of information and prime of competition" arsenic good arsenic section entreaty were considered erstwhile deciding what sports to include.

The past clip the games were successful Glasgow, 17 sports were contested - this clip the Games volition diagnostic 10 sports:

• Athletics and para athletics (track and tract only)
• Swimming and para swimming
• Artistic gymnastics
• Track cycling and para way cycling
• Netball
• Weightlifting and para powerlifting
• Boxing
• Judo
• Bowls and para bowls
• 3x3 hoops and 3x3 wheelchair basketball

Organisers said they recognize that fans and athletes of sports not included volition beryllium "incredibly disappointed" but that these games volition not power aboriginal inclusion.

Some sports specified arsenic cycling and gymnastics person had their disciplines slimmed down.

The cycling programme for Glasgow 2014 included upland biking and roadworthy races but this clip athletes volition lone vie connected the track.

In gymnastics, determination is nary country for immoderate rhythmic events, with lone creator gymnastics being included.

There volition besides beryllium nary diving competitions.

Hockey has been dropped from the programme contempt a nationalist hockey centre being built for the past Glasgow games.

There volition beryllium nary road-based events specified arsenic the triathlon oregon marathon connected the programme - these were antecedently escaped for spectators to be successful 2014.

Rugby sevens, which was antecedently hosted astatine Ibrox Stadium is besides retired and determination volition beryllium nary racquet sports astatine all.

The lawsuit volition diagnostic an opening and closing ceremonial and determination volition beryllium immoderate signifier of King's baton relay up of the games.

An estimated 500,000 tickets volition spell connected merchantability for the assorted events, with the games expected to beryllium worthy £150m to Glasgow.

The CGF confirmed putting connected the games is expected to outgo astir £114m.

It volition wage £100m towards the bill, with £2.3m coming from Commonwealth Games Australia - who pulled retired of hosting the lawsuit - arsenic good arsenic £2.3m from the UK government.

The equilibrium volition travel from commercialized gross specified arsenic summons sales, broadcast rights, commercialized sponsorship and merchandise.

The 4 venues which volition beryllium utilized during the lawsuit volition beryllium the Emirates Arena, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, the Scottish Events Campus and Scotstoun stadium.

Organisers said these venues were "operationally viable and economically valuable".

They confirmed that Scotstoun volition lone big the athletics, portion the Scottish Event Campus and Emirates Arena volition big aggregate sports.

It has not been decided precisely which sports volition instrumentality spot successful which venues.

No further venues volition beryllium built to support costs low, but immoderate upgrades specified arsenic impermanent seating volition beryllium made astatine the 4 venues.

Athletes and officials volition enactment successful “existing accommodation crossed the city”.

Analysis by Chris McLaughlin, BBC Scotland sports quality correspondent

Organisers person spent the past fewer weeks successful talks with sporting bodies and delivering the quality to immoderate that they indispensable beryllium this 1 out.

It’ll beryllium a bitter stroke to immoderate and a astonishment to others.

Badminton and hockey could consciousness peculiarly aggrieved, fixed the illustration of some sports connected the Commonwealth stage, but it’s an denotation of the hard decisions that person been taken, and those to come.

The biggest assemblage pleasers stay and, successful general, determination is simply a program but by accustomed standards, it is inactive a precise unsmooth one.

The large transportation that yet convinced a sceptical Scottish government, and an adjacent much sceptical Glasgow City Council to get connected board, present has to beryllium made to capable the cardinal posts that volition thrust Glasgow 2026 implicit the line.

Only those utilized to moving to precise choky deadlines and adjacent tighter budgets, request apply.

The authoritative rubber stamping and announcement of the athletics programme is simply a large milestone and the archetypal look astatine what radical tin expect from this caller look event.

Can it truly beryllium a blueprint for the aboriginal of this troubled event?

The estimation of the metropolis arsenic a big metropolis for elite sporting spectacles and the precise aboriginal of the Commonwealth Games is astatine stake.