What is The Commonwealth all about?

What are the Commonwealth Games? First of all they are called the Friendly Games because the 
competition is against individual sportsmen and women, but not between countries. The first ever Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. There are always athletics swimming, playing the rugby sevens, netball, lawn bowls and even more events than you can imagine. In the Commonwealth Games there are 71 countries altogether. The Commonwealth Games are held every four years. Most recently, the 2010   games took place in New Delhi, India, and during 2006 the games were in Melbourne, Australia. The 2014 Commonwealth Games will be hosted by Glasgow, Scotland.

How do you Become an athlete?

In the Commonwealth games there are lots of amazing athletes and some of their names are:

Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Lauren Boyle, Josh Taylor, Eric Finau and there are lots of other athletes. To become a really good athlete to be in the Commonwealth Games you need to think about what sport you should be in and once you have done that you need to train. So pretend I picked boxing. I would need to be strong, fit and I will have to eat healthy food everyday and drink lots of water, but if I was doing gymnastics I would still have to eat healthy food everyday and  drink lots of water as well, but I would also need to be skinny, fit and confident.

That is what you need to do to be a good athlete no matter what sport you choose. So it is all up to you.

The sports of the Commonwealth are:

Shotput, Lawn bowls, Shooting, Sprinting, Swimming, Gymnastics Artistic, Heptathlon, High Jump, Netball, Rugby Sevens, Table Tennis, Squash, Weightlifting, Hockey, Judo, Wrestling, Boxing, Gymnastics Rhythmic, Triathlon, Powerlifting, Cycling Track, Cycling Mountain Bike, Badminton and Athletics.