A move to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games archery and shooting competitions in India, six months before Birmingham hosts the rest of the Games, has been approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Commonwealth Games Federation announced on Monday that the competitions would take place in Chandigarh in January of that year, with the main Games in Birmingham starting in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pressure has been building on administrators to reverse their previous decision to drop the sports from the medal programme after India threatened to boycott the Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an alternative, Both events will take place in Chandigarh in January 2022, with the main Games from 27 July to 7 August. Birmingham decided not to include shooting or archery in its sports programme for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, India, which has an excellent record in shooting and won 16 medals at the Gold Coast Games in 2018, initially threatened to boycott the Birmingham event following that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As discussions progressed that threat was withdrawn in December. Shooting has been included in every Games apart from one since 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The solution was arrived at after months of posturing and negotiations and according to CGF chief executive David Grevemberg, 2022 Games will be a ‘pilot programme’ to check the feasibility of hosting future Commonwealth Games in different cities, and countries even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India will spend crores to host the two sports that lack competitiveness in the Commonwealth in which they are expected to win more than a dozen medals.However this should be seen as a big diplomatic victory for India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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