How the commonwealth games is different to the Olympic games?

Answer 1

Olympic Games,

All Countries and Territories are represented,

All sports are played, expected for some,

Origins form Greece,

Teams run with the Olympic torch,

and It's televised around the world,

English and French are use languages.

Commonwealth Games,

only 70 Countries and Territories are represented, Including England, Scotland, Wales and, Northern Ireland,

All sports, including Squash and Lawn bowls

Origins in Great Britain,

Teams run with the Queens baton,

It's televised only in the Commonwealth of nations,

Commonwealth English is used, with some exceptions of Canadian English.

Answer 2

The main differences between the Olympic and Commonwealth Games are:

1. The counties that can compete; the olympic games are open to vistually every country in the world while the commonnwealth games are only open to counties in the British Commonwealth
2. The events that are included are different, with less sports being in the commonwealth games however there are some events that are in the commonwealth games and not in the Olympics (e.g. lawn bowls)
3. The Olympics started in 1896 while the commonwealth games didn't start until 1930
4. The olympic games last occured in 2008 and will next be in 2012 while the commonwealth games last occured in 2006 and will next be in 2010.
5. The Olympics last 3 weeks while the commonwealth games last 2 weeks

Answer 3

Common wealth and Olympics both are multi-sports events. But there is vast differences between the two.Some of which are:

1. Olympics is an worldwide event.All countries, who are the members of Olympics, of the world joins Olympics. But commonwealth games are only for the members of the common wealth countries - with common bond, common language and common heritage.

2. The origin of Olympics is Greece and it has a long history. But common wealth games is new in comparison to Olympics and organised between the countries which are previously ruled by Great Britain. Perhaps it started in 1930 as British Empire games and assumed the current name of Common Wealth games in 1978. So commonwealth game is very new. but Olympics played in 8th century BC to 5th century AD as ancient Olympics, its modern version started with set up of International Olympic Committee(IOC) in 1894 founded by Pierre de Coubertin.

3. Some sports are in the common wealth, but not played in the Olympics, such as rugby,Netball and cricket. of course, cricket is proposed to be introduced soon in Olympics.

4. In Olympics numbers of athlete and officials are much more larger than that of common wealth games. Common wealth games can be compared to winter Olympics only in terms of athlete and officials.

Answer 4

The two games are run by different organizing committee and held at different times.

The countries competing in the Commonwealth Games are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly called the British Commonwealth. The Olympic games are a world wide event, open to most countries.

Answer 5

1. The Olympic Games is open to basically any country that wishes to attend, but the Commonwealth Games is limited to members of the British 'Commonwealth', which basically means the 'countries' that make up the United Kingdom* and former colonies. This numbers about 70 countries, however.

2. There are no winter games; it is purely a summer event.

(3. Nobody outside the Commonwealth cares about them.)

* Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England enter as separate countries, as they do for World Cup soccer. For the Olympic Games, they enter together as the United Kingdom.

Answer 6

Commonwealth is defined as:

an international association consisting of the UK together with states that were previously part of the British Empire, and dependencies.

If you notice, all the countries in the world can take part in the Olympics.

In the Commonwealth games, only countries like England, Scotland, India, Australia, Jamaica etc. can take part. These are countries that were previously ruled on under the British government.

Otherwise, the events are pretty much the same!

Answer 7

The Olymics are open to athletes from every country in the world. The Commonwealth Games are open only to athletes from the countries and dependencies that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations.Also, the competetion can include different sports, and the games are held at different times and palces.

Answer 8

The difference is the Commonwealth Games is only open to the members of the Commonwealth of Nations while the Olympic Games are open to the entire world.

Answer 9

they are different because the common wealth games have people who want to be there the Olympics you don't get to choose