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Ahmedabad awarded hosting rights of 2030 CWG
Financial Express Bengaluru
|November 27, 2025
AHMEDABAD WAS FORMALLY awarded hosting rights of the 2030 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday, paving the way for the multi-sport event’s return to India after two decades and giving impetus to the country’s audacious plan of becoming an Olympic host in 2036.
Commonwealth Sport’s general assembly of 74 members put a seal of approval on India’s bid after Ahmedabad was recommended as the proposed host of the centenary edition its Executive Board last month. India last hosted the CWG in 2010 in Delhi.
The Executive Board’s recommendation followed a process of bid examination overseen by the Commonwealth Sport’s Evaluation Committee.
“India brings scale, youth, ambition, rich culture, enormous sporting passion and relevance...We start our next century for the Commonwealth
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of Financial Express Bengaluru.
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