COMMONWEALTH GAMES

20TH COMMONWEALTH GAMES IS TO BE HELD IN GLASGOW.THE GAMES WAS STARTED BY HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH CONVENTION QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 HAS STARTED THE
CEREMONY.
VIJAY KUMAR WAS THE INDIA FLAG BEARER IN THE START EVENT AND SEEMA PUNIA WAS THE ONE WHO HAS TOOK THE FLAG AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY.
CLYDE,A THISTLE WAS THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES MASCOT.
ENGLAND TOPPED THE MEDAL LIST.
INDIA ENDED ON 5TH POSITION.THIS IS THE THIRD TIMES INDIA HAS GOT THE 64 MEDALS AND EARLIER BEST PERFORMANCE WAS IN 2002 AND IN 2010.
NEXT COMMONWEALTH WILL HAPPEN IN GOLD COAST,AUSTRALIA.
THERE WERE 17 SPORTS IN COMMONWEALTH GAMES.
THERE WERE 71 COUNTRIES WHO HAS TAKEN PART IN THE EVENT.
SCOTLAND HOSTED THE EVENT FOR THE THIRD TIME AND EARLIER IN 1970 AND 1986,
SCOTLAND HAS HOSTED THE EVENT.
15 GOLD MEDALS CAME TO INDIA'S KITTY.
THE FIRST COMMONWEALTH GAMES TOOK PLACE IN 1939.
400 ATHLETE FROM ELEVEN COUNTRIES TOOK PART.
INDIA HAS COMPETITION IN 14 EVENT FROM 18 EVENT.
INDIA FINSIHED 2ND IN DELHI COMMONWEALTH GAMES AND BAGGED 101 MEDALS AND HAD 38 GOLD OUT 101 MEDALS.