Glasgow 2014 news

The number of people who are part of an active Community Sport Hub (CSH) in Scotland has more than doubled. The CSH programme brings together ... More

Mike Sharrock has been appointed as CEO of the British Paralympic Association (BPA), succeeding Tim Hollingsworth, who was named Sport England CEO earlier this year. ... More

Birmingham has officially been named the host city of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, beating competition from Kuala Lumpur, Victoria (Canada) and Australia. Speaking at a ... More

A £200m masterplan to host a decade of the finest sporting events in the international calendar has been revealed by UK Sport. So-called ‘mega events’ ... More

Technogym has been appointed the official fitness equipment supplier for the Gold Coast 2018 (GC2018) Commonwealth Games in Australia. The supplier will equip all the ... More

The UK government has ramped up its interest in hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games, urging potential host cities to come forward with economy-boosting bids. Culture ... More

Glasgow Club at Kelvin Hall - one of Scotland’s biggest health and fitness facilities - has opened its doors to customers. The facility has an ... More

Commonwealth Games England (CGE) will use part of the £4m (US$5m, €4.5m) grant it received from Sport England to create a performance centre within its ... More

The organisation tasked with preparing Team England for the 2018 Commonwealth Games has been boosted with £4m (US$5.1m, €4.6m) of Sport England funding. Commonwealth Games ... More

Olympic bronze medallist Sarah Winckless has been appointed as Team England’s chef de mission for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Former rower Winckless – who won ... More

Around 300 athletes will contest 38 medal events at Gold Coast 2018, which is being described as the largest para-sport event in the history of ... More

Commonwealth Games England (CGE) is searching for a premier commercial partner to raise more funds to prepare for the 2018 Games in Australia’s Gold Coast. ... More

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has provided the Scottish economy with a £740m boost over the past eight years. The Post-Games Report, published by the ... More

A new £800,000 fund has been created to get Scotland’s least active people moving as part of the legacy of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. ... More

The Sports and Leisure Working Party Group of the International Union of Architects (UIA) has announced it will examine the legacies of the most recent ... More

Last year’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games have helped provide impressive increases in participation levels across the 17 Scottish sports that featured at the Games. Figures from ... More

Contracts associated with staging last year’s Commonwealth Games have provided the Scottish economy with a £510m boost. Figures released by Glasgow City Council (GCC) this ... More

Professional sports events held in the UK attracted a total of 67 million paying fans during 2014, according to analysis by Deloitte's sports business group. ... More

The running track that was built on a system of stilts at Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games has been relaid ... More

The Glasgow Commonwealth Games contributed to £282m worth of Scottish tourism revenue in 2014, according to a study carried out on behalf of Scottish government, ... More

A total of 47 community sports projects across Scotland will share £2.4m from the Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund, the Scottish Government’s £10m pot to ... More

More than £600,000 worth of sports equipment, used at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, will be distributed across Scotland as part of legacy plans to ... More

The Scottish government has revealed its latest Glasgow 2014 legacy project – the Sustainable Sport for Communities fund. The grant scheme is a £1m Fund ... More

Scotland’s first dedicated para-sports facility is to be built at the Sportscotland National Sports Centre Inverclyde in Largs, Ayrshire. The £9m development, the first of ... More

The UK’s largest dedicated Parkour training facility has quadrupled in size, after North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) commissioned facilities provider Freemove to carry out the £100,000 ... More