A sport development group in Glasgow is organising a last minute bid to run the games in 2026. The scheduled cities have dropped out. The Glasgow bid is described as scaled down and cost effective.
Info on here;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/68792008
Is anyone thinking about presenting Orienteering as part of the bid ? "Scaled down and cost effective" is what it could be.
Here's a back-of-a-fag-packet proposal. Run a JK-ish style event over the middle weekend of the Games fortnight; sprint, middle, long and relay. Use some of the many city parks and their adjoining golf courses. Use the STAG 2x2 relay format, because it's good fun. Possibly do an "urban indoors" course on the Friday night in one of the universities. Restrict national teams to maybe 4 W21E and 4 M21E. Each day have helpers/supporters races as "scatter-score" using the All Controls map plus yellow/orange for the inexperienced. Keep the admin burden for the organisers to a minimum.
Out of the 70 or so territories in the Commonwealth Games only about half a dozen have an internationally competitive O scene, so there is no need to pretend that we would be running a full-on IOF world class event. It would probably work as a Level B event rather than Level A.
For countries with little experience we could offer an international training camp at Glenmore Lodge, Lagganlia or Badaguish the previous week.
At the end of May this year STAG are organising an urban sprint weekend in Glasgow which will illustrate the potential the city has.
https://stag-glasgow-city-race-2024.my.canva.site/
This might be our best chance in years to gain some UK wide positive publicity for the sport. I am presenting this idea on here for comment because I have no direct route for communications with the management of our sport.
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Re: Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026
Nice idea, but suspect it is a non-starter. The suggestion already seems to be about cutting out almost half the sports, so keeping some of those would probably come ahead of adding anything new. Although admittedly some of that reduction is about venue difficulty, which your suggestion wouldn't need.
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I've just realised that I confused the Glasgow sprints shindig dates with the Scottish champs.
The Euro sprint weekend is 10, 11, 12 May and the Champs will be around Inverness on 25 & 26 May.
The Euro sprint weekend is 10, 11, 12 May and the Champs will be around Inverness on 25 & 26 May.
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Re: Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026
For what it's worth, we (Orienteering Australia) put in a bid to get orienteering into the 2026 Games when it was going to be in Victoria, which was reasonably well-received but unsuccessful. Beyond a small group of core sports it's very much at the discretion of the organisers.
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It's possible to have a Commonwealth Championships, which awards Games medals, independent of the main games. However, it's not permitted to be within three months either side of the main games, to avoid deflecting attention.
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Re: Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026
I tried to set up a Commonwealth Championships in 2014, at that stage it lacked the prestige to justify the travel involved from Canada, Australia, RSA, NZ.
The way that the CG is going, it may be that a pitch of "we will deliver our sport at zero cost to you" might be attractive.
Whatever, do come to the STAG event next month, Glasgow Uni is a great area, and Kelvingrove Park is a great venue!
The way that the CG is going, it may be that a pitch of "we will deliver our sport at zero cost to you" might be attractive.
Whatever, do come to the STAG event next month, Glasgow Uni is a great area, and Kelvingrove Park is a great venue!
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