2018 Commonwealth Games | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 22/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Commonwealth_Games


00:01:56 1 Host selection
00:05:29 2 Administration
00:06:17 3 Preparation
00:06:26 3.1 Venues
00:06:51 3.1.1 Venues in Gold Coast
00:08:45 3.1.2 Venues outside Gold Coast
00:09:27 3.2 Financing
00:10:43 3.3 Countdown
00:11:12 3.4 Ticketing
00:12:06 3.5 Volunteering
00:12:47 3.6 Medals
00:13:50 3.7 Athletes village
00:15:05 3.8 Queen's baton relay
00:16:24 3.9 Transport
00:17:17 3.10 Anti-doping
00:18:01 3.11 Sustainability
00:19:03 3.12 Opening ceremony
00:20:05 3.13 Closing ceremony
00:20:43 4 Participating teams
00:21:13 4.1 Number of athletes by team
00:21:22 5 Calendar
00:21:31 6 Sports
00:23:06 7 Medal table
00:24:01 8 Broadcasting
00:25:45 9 Marketing
00:25:54 9.1 Motto
00:26:20 9.2 Emblem
00:26:59 9.3 Mascot
00:27:39 9.4 Sponsors
00:28:16 9.5 Official song
00:28:44 10 Concerns and controversies
00:28:54 10.1 Missing athletes
00:29:39 10.2 Criticism of the closing ceremony
00:30:28 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport event achieved gender equality by having an equal number of events for males and female athletes.More than 4,400 athletes including 300 para-athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations took part in the event. The Gambia which withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth Games Federation in 2013, was readmitted on 31 March 2018 and participated in the event . With 275 sets of medals, the games featured 19 Commonwealth sports, including beach volleyball, para triathlon and women's rugby sevens. These sporting events took place at 14 venues in the host city, two venues in Brisbane and one venue each in Cairns and Townsville.These were the first Commonwealth Games to take place under the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) presidency of Louise Martin, CBE. The host city Gold Coast was announced at the CGF General Assembly in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, on 11 November 2011. Gold Coast became the seventh Oceanian city and the first regional city to host the Commonwealth Games. These were the eighth games to be held in Oceania and the Southern Hemisphere.
The host nation Australia topped the medal table for the fourth time in the past five Commonwealth Games, winning the most golds (80) and most medals overall (198). England and India finished second and third respectively. Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, British Virgin Islands and Dominica each won their first Commonwealth Games medals.