Student's Helper 91: COMMONWEALTH GAMES

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

The event was first held in 1930, and has taken place every four years since then (with the exception of 1942 and 1946, which were cancelled due to the Second World War).
The most recent Commonwealth Games were held at Gold Coast from 4 to 15 April 2018.
The next Commonwealth Games are to be held in Birmingham from 27 July to 7 August 2022.
The Commonwealth Games were known as the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 to 1966, and British Commonwealth Games from 1970 to 1974.
It is the world's first multi-sport event to implement equal number of women’s and men’s medal events and was started in the recent 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Although there are currently 53 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 71 teams currently participate in the Commonwealth Games, as a number of dependent territories compete under their own flags. The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—also send separate teams.
Nineteen cities in nine countries (counting England, Wales, and Scotland separately) have hosted the event.
Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games five times (1938, 1962, 1982, 2006 and 2018); this is more times than any other nation.
Two cities have hosted Commonwealth Games more than once: Auckland (1950, 1990) and Edinburgh (1970, 1986).