Hamilton Commonwealth Games committee drops bid for 2026 & begins pitch for 2030 - Free Audiobook

Back to the future: it's Hamilton100 again.That's 100 as in the year 2030, the 100th anniversary of the Commonwealth Games.The local bid for the 2026 Games has been abandoned.The Spectator has learned that the private consortium hoping to bring the Games to Hamilton, where they started in 1930, will concentrate solely on bidding for the 2030 Games after shifting - at the request of the Games' national and international governing bodies - last year to bid for first, 2026, and later 2027.Lou Frapporti of Hamilton100 Commonwealth Games Bid Corporation confirmed Tuesday night that \"we had been asked to pivot (last fall, to a plan for a possible year-delayed Games for 2027) and worked hard on it, but the process has been aborted.GUEST: Steve Milton, Journalist for The Hamilton Spectator