The Commonwealth Games is the second largest sports extravaganza in the world after the Olympics. There is an uncertainty looms over the 2026 Games in Glasgow, Scotland due to venue complications.
A meeting was held on Tuesday on Glasgow Commonwealth Games including the issue of finalising the disciplines of the Games when athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling, netball, weightlifting, boxing, judo, basketball and lawn ball were included.
Meanwhile, shooting was not in the 2022 Birmingham Games and may be it would not in the 2026 edition in Glasgow.
Shakeel Ahmed, Bangladesh shooter won silver medal in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. He is very much diappointed and said, “More than 40 countries participated in the Asian Games. There were 70 in the Gold Coast Games. It is the second largest Games in the world considering the number of participation by countries. Bangladesh has been getting medals almost regularly in shooting events of the Games. It is very disappointing not to include this dscipline in the Glasgow Games.”
Bangladesh won its first medal in shooting at the Auckland Commonwealth Games in 1990 though Abdus satter Nini. Asif Hussain Khan won gold in 10m Air Rifle in Manchester in 2002. Abdullah Hal Baki and Shakeel won silver in Air Rifle in 2014 and 2018.
The International Shooting Federation is continously pushing the IOC for the inclusion the shooting event in the Commonwealth Games.
Shakel said that the ISSF on thier page that their efforts are underway to include shooting in the Commonwealth Games – “Let’s see what will happen, if there will no shooting event in the coming Games, as it was not in last time in Birmingham Games, it will be very disappointing for Bangladesh,” Sahkeel regrets.
