The games are billed as the third largest international multi-sport event in the world.
More than 2, 300 competitors from all over the world are taking part in the multi-sport event.
The newly formed British Olympic Association, presided over by William Grenfell, a silver medallist in the 1906 Athens Games, had only 10 months to organize the global multi-sport event.
The University of Bath was used as a base for a number of countries competing at London 2012 and will host the majority of this summer's 12-sport event.
The Commonwealth Games offer Hunt a rare opportunity to perform in a multi-sport event, as the compound discipline is not used in the Olympics, and she is keen to make the most of being on the big stage.
Peace and Sport is hoping to make this tournament an annual event using a different sport each year.
The confusion started when Japan's Uchimura climbed onto the pommel horse, considered the sport's hardest event.
The International Rugby Board would scrap its Sevens World Cup to ensure the Olympics is the sport's top event.
Based on our assessment of the group we designed a variety of challenges, including a complex, multi-sport problem-solving event.
Skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier of Canada were just the latest in a long line of athletes left feeling cheated at sport's greatest event.
He claimed only a "few tentative steps" had been taken to address how sport could mount a counterattack against suspicious betting and event-fixing in Olympic and Paralympic sport.
Fans will also be able to catch up on highlights and full events - all organised by the day, medal event or the sport.
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Triathlon is so poorly followed a sport that even its premier event next month's Ironman World Championship receives no live coverage outside of being streamed onto Ironman's own website.
"Players are increasingly reluctant to play in the UK, which reduces broadcaster and sponsor interest, and therefore the impact of that event on the sport and the local and national economy, " says The Lawn Tennis Association.
The means of locomotion through the outback vary greatly: The Paris-based organizers of the Raid Gauloises, the sport's most prestigious event, require racers to travel on everything from camels to paragliders in places like Madagascar and Oman.
"I rate the World Tour Finals after Grand Slams as the biggest event in our sport, so being the title defender is a big responsibility, but I don't think I'm the favourite, " he tells BBC Sport after the photo call ends.
"The pleasure of sport lies not so much in witnessing an event as talking about it, " Ellis Cashmore, professor of Culture, Media and Sport at England's Staffordshire University, told CNN recently.
The Americans won their third gold in men's beach volleyball since the event became an Olympic sport in 1996.
The event has developed into a popular spectator sport since the park threw open its gates to the public free of charge for the Boxing Day event in 1986.
Margaret Hodge, minister for culture, media and sport is due to attend an event on Saturday in honour of the library's founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, when the donation will be formally announced.
"The PGA Championship is a marquee event both for the sport of golf and for Turner Sports and each year we strive to offer the most comprehensive, multiplatform coverage to fans, allowing them to follow the event on television, online or through mobile devices, " said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
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"We are delighted to be giving web users, viewers and listeners even more extensive coverage of Ireland's largest sporting event, " said BBC Sport NI's Executive Producer Shane Glynn.
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Yes, Harrison won Friday's Prizefighter event and rightly told BBC Sport when asked about the quality of opponent that all he can do is "beat the men put in front of me".
Such is the interest generated by the six-footer, Wie will tee off in her first pro event on 13 October as her sport's top female earner.
BBC: The hour before school started was always a busy time for me.
Despite growing up in the tropics, she showed a natural talent and became hooked on the sport after qualifying for her first World Cup event in December 2000.
Although "riding" has come a long way in 40 years -- from being banned at most ski resorts to becoming an Olympic event in 1998 -- the sport still hasn't lost its edge, Doyle said.
Media attention of the sport has jumped since it became an official Olympic event in 2000.
Harman is also convinced the event is creating new fans for the sport, with tickets more obtainable than they are for one of the tennis' four grand slams.
To understand the chapel's connection with the sport, you have to go back to a tragic event in 1964.
The Ipswich archer took silver in the first stage in Croatia but the event could prove to be important for the sport as a whole.
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