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Originally Posted by Tyler
Let's be serious, the Commonwealth games is really just an entire sporting event fostered by first world white British Commonwealth nations to rack up track and field gold medals until they're eventually destroyed at the Olympics.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by craigwd
and that's why it's endured for 84 years and includes Central American, SE Asian and African nations participating in 20 sports including Athletics.
I guess you can say the same thing for all multi-sport events outside of the Olympic Games. 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyler
Sometimes you just figure you don't need green text.. and then craigwd comes along and ruins it for everyone. Way to go
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All that being said, they really aren't sporting Giants:
Spoiler!
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- Aden1 1962
- Anguilla2 1998–
- Australasia 1911
- Antigua and Barbuda 1966–1970, 1978, 1994–
- Australia 1930–
- Bahamas 1954–1970, 1978–1982, 1990–
- Bangladesh 1978, 1990–
- Barbados 1954–1982, 1990–
- Belize4 1978, 1994–
- Bermuda 1930–1938, 1954–1982, 1990–
- Botswana 1974, 1982–
- British Guiana3 1930–1938, 1954–1962
- British Honduras4 1962–1966
- British Virgin Islands 1990–
- Brunei Darussalam 1958, 1990–
- Cameroon 1998–
Canada 1911–
- Cayman Islands 1978–
- Ceylon5 1938–1950, 1958–1970
- Cook Islands 1974–1978, 1986–
- Cyprus 1978–1982, 1990–
- Dominica 1958–1962, 1970, 1994–
- England 1911–
- Falkland Islands 1982–
- Fiji6 1938, 1954–1986, 1998–2006
- Gambia7 1970–1982, 1990–2010
- Ghana 1958–1982, 1990–
- Gibraltar 1958–
- Gold Coast8 1954
- Grenada 1970–1982, 1998–
- Guernsey8 1970–
- Guyana3 1966–1970, 1978–1982, 1990–
- Hong Kong9 1934, 1954–1962, 1970–1994
- India 1934–1938, 1954–1958, 1966–1982, 1990–
- Ireland10 11 1930
- Irish Free State10 1934
- Isle of Man 1958–
- Jamaica 1934, 1954–1982, 1990–
- Jersey8 1958–
- Kenya 1954–1982, 1990–
- Kiribati 1998–
- Lesotho 1974–
- Malawi12 1970–
- Malaya13 1950, 1958–1962
- Malaysia 1966–1982, 1990–
- Maldives 1986–
- Malta 1958–1962, 1970, 1982–
- Mauritius 1958–1982, 1990–
- Montserrat 1994–
- Mozambique 1998–
- Namibia 1994–
- Nauru 1990–
- Newfoundland14 1930–1934
- New Zealand 1930–
- Nigeria 1950–1958, 1966–1974, 1982, 1990–1994, 2002–
- Niue 2002–
- Norfolk Island 1986–
- North Borneo13 1958–1962
- Northern Ireland10 15 1934–1938, 1954–
- Northern Rhodesia16 1954
- Pakistan 1954–1970, 1990–
- Papua New Guinea 1962–1982, 1990–
- Rhodesia 1934–1950
- Rhodesia and Nyasaland16 1958–1962
- Rwanda 2010–
- Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla2 1978
- Saint Helena (with Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha)18 1982, 1998–
- Saint Kitts and Nevis2 1990–
- Saint Lucia 1962, 1970, 1978, 1994–
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1958, 1966–1978, 1994–
- Samoa19 1998–
- Sarawak13 1958–1962
- Scotland 1930–
- Seychelles 1990–
- Sierra Leone 1958, 1966–1970, 1978, 1990–
- Singapore13 1958–
- Solomon Islands 1982, 1990–
- South Africa 1911–1958, 1994–
- South Arabia1 1966
- Southern Rhodesia16 1954
- Sri Lanka 1974–1982, 1990–
- Swaziland 1970–
- Tanganyika20 1962
- Tanzania 1966–1982, 1990–
- Tonga 1974, 1982, 1990–
- Trinidad and Tobago 1934–1982, 1990–
- Turks and Caicos Islands 1978, 1998–
- Tuvalu 1998–
- Uganda 1954–1982, 1990–
- Vanuatu 1982–
- Wales 1930–
- Western Samoa19 1974–1994
- Zambia12 1970–1982, 1990–
- Zimbabwe12 22 1982, 1990–2002
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I would go to watch Sevens, as the best in the world, bar none would be there.
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