ATHLETICS
Brexit expected to boost Commonwealth Games’s stature
London — Britain’s eventual exit from the EU could boost the stature of the Commonwealth Games as the quadrennial event seeks new host cities in different regions, organisers said on Wednesday. Peter Beattie, chairman of the organising committee for the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Australia, told reporters Brexit would add weight to the Commonwealth, whose 52 members are mostly former British colonies and include India, Canada and Nigeria. "The reality is that Brexit makes the Commonwealth more relevant," he said at a media presentation of the next edition of the Games. "In my view, the Commonwealth is more relevant than it was 20 years ago. "After Brexit the Commonwealth has to forge a new relationship [with Britain] and the Commonwealth Games are an integral part of the new Commonwealth, the new relevance." David Grevemberg, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) CE who led Glasgow’s 2014 Games, agreed that the changing landscape could be "a great positive opportunity". "We are foc...
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