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There'll be plenty of global superstars on show in Birmingham, including the four fastest women on the planet, iconic Paralympians, and a swimmer poised to become the greatest Commonwealth Games athlete of all time.

When Kaputin broke her ankle demonstrating a jump for kids in PNG, she was told she wouldn't walk for a year. Eighteen months later, she had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, and is now PNG's flag-bearer for the Commonwealth Games.

This year’s Commonwealth Games hosts failed in their attempt to hold the 1992 Olympics in the West Midlands.

When London was preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Games, 250,000 people signed up to volunteer as official “Games Makers”. Of these, 70,000 people were ultimately selected to wear the distinctive purple-and-red volunteer uniforms. For 40% of them, it was the first time they’d done anything like this.

London is still reaping the rewards of the 2012 Olympics, it was claimed today, as the 10-year anniversary of the Games was marked.

Rarely has a secret been kept so well. The cast of the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, comprised of 7,500 professional performers and volunteers, practised for months to deliver one of the great cultural moments in our recent history. The Games had truly begun.

The German government has indicated it's willing to pay further compensation to the families of 11 Israeli athletes who were killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by members of a Palestinian group

It's no secret that after the success of the Tokyo Olympics, where both the Indian men's and women's teams made history (the men won a bronze ending a 41-year wait, while the women finished fourth, narrowly missing a medal), expectations from Indian hockey players have gone through the roof.

It is often forgotten in the euphoria which followed that Team GB were slow starters at London 2012, day five producing the first gold medal, from rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning.

Danny Boyle’s extravaganza burnished what was best about the UK, but the myth it forged has been crumbling ever since, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

NEW DELHI: Energy is in abundance when Sathiya Gnanasekaran is around. It doesn't matter if he is in a table tennis hall or not, his energy sources never desert him -- be it in his shots or his conversations.