Leevan Sands of the Bahamas has won Olympic, World and Commonwealth bronzes and can never be discounted.
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Since 1998 he dominated the 400 meter freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth and Pan Pacific championships until taking a post-2004 break.
The judging panel included former World and Commonwealth champion Liz McColgan, who was the Scottish ambassador for the Unsung Hero award along with BBC Radio Scotland's Sports Weekly programme.
Robertson and Emms won Olympic silver in 2004 before collecting Commonwealth and World gold medals in 2006.
The royal wedding, as a semi-state occasion, does not include world leaders outside the Commonwealth -- so Presidents Obama and Sarkozy will have to find alternative diversions for April 29.
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For Idowu, Thursday's victory saw him add to his Commonwealth and World gold medals, with the Briton now determined to complete the set of major titles at the London Olympics in 2012.
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Gateshead will also host two of the world's top 400m runners with Jamaica's Commonwealth gold medallist Michael Blackwood and reigning world champion Avard Moncur of the Bahamas both sceduled to appear.
Londoner Idowu, who is the defending Commonwealth Games and world indoor champion, beat his previous best of 17.68, set in 2002, although he has jumped 17.75 indoors.
But Burns is the real star of the show after progressing from Commonwealth champion to world champion, by dint of his stunning WBO super-featherweight title win over Roman Martinez in October.
"We finished last in the World Cup and in the Commonwealth Games our performance wasn't great but then we practised a lot and finally got to this position, " Ashraf said.
South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh put in the fastest 50m breaststroke time in the world this year, a Commonwealth Games record of 27.18 seconds, to win gold and complete a 50m-100m double.
This haul followed impressive displays by Edwards' charges at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and 2007 World Championships.
Correspondents say that while there is no sign yet that this year's Commonwealth Games and hockey world cup in India will be jeopardised - political and sporting relations between the two countries have recently taken a turn for the worse.
Our scheme has been welcomed by the World Bank as well as the by the Commonwealth's secretary-general and finance ministers.
But in the past few years, India's boxers have picked up medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games and also at the World Championship, where Krishan won a bronze medal.
And his coach Glen Mills said the 100m and 200m world record holder was always set to skip the Commonwealth Games.
With the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning are organizing the 2012 World OER Congress.
This is an athlete who has won gold in the last three major international competitions she has taken part in - last winter's World Indoors, the 2002 European Championships and the Commonwealth Games the same year.
"I am aiming for the Commonwealth title in January then beyond that to a world title, " said Magee.
He outclassed Ghanaian Atoli Moore with a first-round stoppage on Friday to claim the Commonwealth belt, after which he was hailed by former world champion John Conteh.
He won the World Open crown in 1998 as well as winning gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
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Semenya could now choose to compete in the World Junior Championships in Canada later in July, with October's Commonwealth Games likely to be her main focus this season.
Semenya now has the opportunity to compete in the world junior championships in Canada later this month, but October's Commonwealth Games in Delhi is a more realistic target.
Private consultants, many of them British, have long worked on other globe-trotting events like the Commonwealth games, the Asian games, and football and rugby world cups, on contracts lasting from six months to years.
Now at his 10th major championship, Malcolm's only individual major medal outdoors was a silver on his senior major championship debut at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - just a month after his world junior sprint championship double.
The Walsall sprinter, who won European and Commonwealth silvers in 2010, has the indoor European Championships and outdoor World Championships coming up.
The Commonwealth super featherweight champion is out to emulate Watt, who won the world and European titles.
The Queen handed the Commonwealth Games 2006 baton to supermodel Elle McPherson in March, launching the world's longest relay from Buckingham Palace.
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Previous winners of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize have gone on to become major figures in the world of literature, including Louis de Bernieres, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan.
"A substantial enhancement of the resources of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is fundamental to the successful conduct of foreign policy in the world in which we live, " he declared.
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