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Victoria to host 2026 Commonwealth Games

2026 Opening Ceremony at MCG with most sports held in 4 regional centres.

Victoria has been confirmed as the host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, with regional parts of the state set to host the majority of events.

The opening ceremony will be held in Melbourne at the MCG, with the rest of the events to be held the regions, with athletes’ villages to be established in each centre.

The initial plan for hosting events includes:

Geelong — aquatics, beach volleyball, gymnastics, hockey, table tennis, triathlon
Ballarat — athletics, boxing,
Bendigo — lawn bowls, netball, squash, weightlifting
Gippsland — badminton, rugby sevens

“This will be a Commonwealth Games like no other. We promised we wouldn’t be doing a re-run of 2006, as successful as that was,” Premier Daniel Andrews said.

“This is also about creating jobs, some nearly 4,000 jobs during the Commonwealth Games and some 3,000 enduring jobs thereafter.”

This will be the sixth time the Commonwealth Games has been held in Australia, with Sydney hosting in 1938, Perth in 1962, Brisbane in 1982, Melbourne in 2006, and the Gold Coast in 2018.

Seven hosts TV rights to the next Games to be held in Birmingham, UK, in July.

Source: ABC

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