The Common Wealth Games are organised by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), a union of around 70 countries.

The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1978 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978.

Attendance at the Commonwealth Games is typically around 5,000 athletes, which makes it one of the largest international sporting events in terms of participants.

Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales.

Delhi won the right to host the 2010 Games by defeating the Canadian city of Hamilton by 46 votes to 22 at the CGF General Assembly held in Montego Bay in November 2003.

The proposed dates for the Games are 3 – 14 October 2010 inclusive of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Weather wise the city experiences an October mean temperature minimum 17.2 degrees centigrade and maximum 31.3 degrees centigrade with humidity ranging from 31 to 78% for the October and November months.

The Common Wealth Games 2010 a games for which we all are waiting for four long years are going to be held in Delhi, India. This is the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India. All Games of Commonwealth games are Scheduled  between 3 October and 14 October 2010. Commonwealth games will be the largest multi-games event conducted in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening ceremony of Commonwealth games in India is going to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi.

The city of New Delhi, home to 13.8 million people, will host the Commonwealth Games in 2010. This will be the first time India has hosted the Games and only the second time the event has been held in Asia.

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