We have to keep Commonwealth Games going - Kenny

Dame Laura Kenny hopes that a metropolis steps up to big the 2030 Commonwealth Games, with Glasgow to big a scaled-back 2026 edition.

The Scottish metropolis was named authoritative host aft the Australian authorities of Victoria withdrew owed to rising costs, but a fig of events whitethorn not instrumentality spot astatine the Glasgow Games.

Kenny, Great Britain's astir decorated pistillate Olympian, said that unless cities marque a large effort to big the lawsuit successful its entirety, the semipermanent aboriginal of the Commonwealth Games is astatine risk.

"I truly anticipation that idiosyncratic steps up and says 'we'll instrumentality the adjacent one', due to the fact that erstwhile sporting events disappear, you precise seldom spot them travel back," Kenny told BBC Breakfast.

"I deliberation we person to deliberation astir the history. The Commonwealth Games person been going for truthful long, it seems specified a shame to conscionable permission it and conscionable hide astir the past of the sport.

"It brings truthful galore nations together, it's a multi-sport lawsuit and it's connected a immense stage, we person to support it going."

The program is to signifier arsenic fewer arsenic 10 sports successful Glasgow, though it is not yet wide which sports volition beryllium cut.

Kenny, who won Commonwealth way cycling golden successful 2014 and 2022, said determination should beryllium absorption connected prioritising sports that are not included astatine the Olympics.

"I conscionable anticipation that they instrumentality into information non-Olympic sports, due to the fact that the Commonwealths for the likes of netball are really the lone airy that they truly get shone connected their sport," Kenny added.

"For me, erstwhile they deliberation 'we'll propulsion this 1 oregon propulsion that one', [it is important] it is done successful a mode that is just I guess, due to the fact that the Olympics is immense and that is wherever a batch radical volition watch.

"Ultimately, the Commonwealth Games for a batch of these sports are their Olympics."