Who are the Commonwealth Games winners and losers?

When legendary rocker Ozzy Osborne brought the curtain down connected the 2022 Commonwealth Games, determination was a consciousness of euphoria successful Birmingham.

The Games was wide considered a roaring success, providing a post-Covid buzz to the city, the state and the competing Commonwealth nations.

However, it came astatine a price. Costing £800m, it was the astir costly sports lawsuit hosted successful the UK since the 2012 Olympics.

Reform of the Games - making it much cost-effective, sustainable and future-proof - was already an aggravated treatment point.

Then, the Australian authorities of Victoria pulled retired of hosting the 2026 event. State Premier Daniel Andrews concluded it was "all outgo and nary benefit" and plunged the aboriginal of the Commonwealth Games into superior doubt.

To the rescue came Glasgow.

The Scottish metropolis hosted the Games successful 2014 but it volition person a precise different, streamlined look erstwhile it returns determination successful 2 years' time, with lone 10 sports to beryllium played retired implicit 4 venues.

"This Games is astir the resetting and reframing of the Games for the future," said Commonwealth Games Federation main enforcement Katie Sadleir.

"We privation to make a sustainable exemplary that tin spell astir the Commonwealth due to the fact that the Commonwealth members emotion the Commonwealth Games and we privation to instrumentality it determination arsenic well."

The Commonwealth Games has ever had a flexible programme, wherever the prime of sports is dictated by the big city.

The database is drawn up aft information to the "universality of information and prime of competition", arsenic good arsenic section infrastructure and interest.

At Glasgow 2026, determination volition beryllium 10 sports:

Twelve sports that featured astatine Birmingham 2022 - positive the marathon, Para marathon and 10k walk, which are typically cardinal components of the athletics and Para-athletics events - person been chopped for Glasgow's staging of the Games.

The sports that person been chopped are:

Prior to Tuesday's announcement, lone athletics and swimming were assured of their spot astatine Glasgow 2026 arsenic 'mandatory' Commonwealth Games sports.

The sports dropped person met the determination with understandable disappointment.

Diving has been portion of each Games since 1930 but has missed retired successful Glasgow, with a deficiency of an existing purpose-built venue being cited arsenic the superior reason.

Scottish Swimming acknowledged the "difficult decisions" facing organisers but expressed interest for the "diving assemblage who volition undoubtedly consciousness disappointed".

Diving Australia said the sport's Commonwealth practice made the determination "even much regrettable".

Hockey is different long-standing halfway athletics - having been introduced successful 1998 - to suffer out.

"It is truly disappointing and a reflection of wherever we are arsenic a sport," said erstwhile Great Britain skipper Kate Richardson-Walsh, who helped England triumph women's hockey metallic astatine Glasgow 2014.

"It is simply a infinitesimal wherever we should bespeak arsenic a sport, for galore antithetic reasons, astir however we tin amended and enactment relevant."

Squash, badminton and table tennis were each culled, meaning determination volition beryllium nary racquet sports successful Glasgow.

Three-time squash golden medallist Nick Matthew was amazed his sport's "heritage and contented of providing a satellite people contention successful the Commonwealths" did not prevention its place.

"It's a blow. With the UK countries, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, etc, the extent of contention is incredibly high," said Matthew.

"It’s ever been valued close alongside the World Championship for us.

"Hockey missing retired stood retired to maine arsenic well. I deliberation you would beryllium hard pushed to spot much satellite people sports astatine Commonwealth level than squash oregon hockey."

For galore sports, the Commonwealth Games remains the biggest signifier to showcase their talent, some to location and planetary audiences.

More eyeballs connected the athletics tin pb to much involvement and, crucially, much concern for today's and tomorrow's stars.

"These are tiny windows of opportunities for number sports to beryllium seen and to get enactment which they’re present going to miss out," said Richardson-Walsh, who had a stint arsenic adjunct manager of the Canada women's hockey squad past year.

"What does that mean for these sports and countries?"

India, who were 4th successful the 2022 medal table, are 1 of the competing federation teams who look acceptable to beryllium deed hardest by the slimmed-down programme.

According to ESPN,, external determination were 210 Indian athletes who competed successful Birmingham - 98 participated successful sports which person been axed.

Indian competitors won 61 medals for their nation, including 30 successful events not being held successful Glasgow.

"It is simply a shocking and immense setback for Indian sports," said Sanjay Mishra, wide caput of the Badminton Association of India.

"It feels similar a conspiracy to sideline India's rising sporting potential."

Scaling down the Commonwealth Games means less sports, less athletes and less venues.

The cost-cutting measures near galore - including long-standing halfway sports which spot the Commonwealth Games arsenic the pinnacle - facing an anxious wait.

Netball was 1 of them. Yet to beryllium elevated to an Olympic sport, its biggest planetary level is the Commonwealth Games and determination was a consciousness of alleviation that it volition diagnostic successful Glasgow.

Scotland planetary Niamh McCall said she was "glued" to the quality of the determination due to the fact that of the interaction being included - oregon not - would person connected her sport.

"I was truthful tense for the database to travel out, truthful I'm ace blessed and excited netball has been selected," she said.

"The Commonwealth Games are monolithic for our athletics due to the fact that we don't vie astatine the Olympics. It is important and for young girls to spot america play and get involved."

Netball Australia, whose squad won the archetypal Commonwealth golden successful 1998 and are reigning champions, said the determination was indicative of netball's "depth and strength".

Boxing and lawn bowls - some contiguous successful the inaugural variation of the lawsuit successful 1930 - person besides made the chopped contempt fears they mightiness beryllium dropped.

Officials from World Bowls, Bowls Scotland and Bowls England said they were "delighted" with the decision.

"The Commonwealth Games is the pinnacle lawsuit for our sport," added the satellite governing body.

"It creates unparalleled levels of visibility, inspires caller radical to instrumentality up bowls and provides a North Star for our starring bowlers."

Para sport volition erstwhile again beryllium afloat integrated astatine the Games, with six events included connected the programme.

"Integration of Para-sport has been a precise palmy facet of the Commonwealth Games programme since Manchester 2002," said Paralympics Australia interim CEO Cameron Murray.

"While the reduced programme means immoderate sports are incapable to vie astatine these Games, we are pleased to spot a precocious level of practice that ensures the Games remains a large illustration of inclusion and diverseness successful elite sport."

As the disappointment of missing retired sunk successful for immoderate sports, Games officials person been keen to accent the doorway has not been unopen for good.

"Every clip you tally a antithetic Games you person a antithetic make-up of sports," said CGF main enforcement Sadleir.

"This is simply a compact programme and it has been necessitated by the timeframe we person had to make a satellite people event.

"This is decidedly not a precedent of which sports volition beryllium connected the programme successful the future."

That is presuming, however, determination are takers to big the 2030 event. The existential menace to the Games continues to loom large.

"Not overmuch of the Commonwealth Games near is there," said tv presenter Fred Sirieix, whose girl Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix was a diving golden medallist astatine Birmingham 2022.

"Such a scaled backmost contention makes you wonderment astir its future."

Conal Heatley, the main enforcement of Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland, said determination has been a "very mature" effect from the sports that missed out, a absorption which appears to beryllium rooted successful the anticipation that the lawsuit has taken a measurement backmost to determination guardant again.

"Given wherever the Commonwealth Games was aft the authorities of Victoria withdrew past summer, determination was a fearfulness the Games could conscionable gaffe away," Heatley said.

"I deliberation if we had looked astatine the aboriginal of the Games six oregon 9 months ago, I'd person been nervous. I'm a batch much assured now."