The 2030 Commonwealth Games are set to be held in Ahmedabad, India in 2030, pending formal approval next month. The city is also bidding for the 2036 Summer Olympics.
It is official now.
Today would have been the opening ceremony of the Victorian Commonwealth Games
It will then travel to the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, with 2024 world 50m backstroke champion Isaac Cooper to join Birmingham 2022 women’s 1500m bronze medallist Abbey Caldwell among the diverse coral and sea life.
7News’ Max Futcher was at the Great Barrier Reef to report on this relay leg.
Alexa Leary ruled out of Commonwealth Games after reclassification
The darling of Australia’s para swim team, Alexa Leary has been ruled out of this year’s Commonwealth Games in Scotland after global administrators changed the classification she competes in.
A victim of her own success, the world-record breaking Queenslander was set on making her Commonwealth Games debut at Glasgow in July before being told her eligibility had been modified.
An unstoppable force in the S9 class, Leary was reassessed by global para and swimming experts in February, who effectively deemed she was too good so they moved her to S10, a faster class of swimmers with lesser impairments.
Based on her times in the pool, the bubbly Leary will still be among the world’s best in her new category but will have to sit out the Commonwealth Games because there is no freestyle sprint race for S10 women.
Update
https://www.swimming.org.au/articles/para-swimmers-named-for-2026-commonwealth-games