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‘The future of the Commonwealth will not rest on economic factors alone. It is vitally important for the continual relevance and strength of the association that the meaning and spirit of Commonwealth reaches the grassroots, particularly young people. Sport can serve the Commonwealth well in this regard, becoming a first point of information about the Commonwealth for young people.’1 These evangelistic words from the 1993 report by the Chogm Committee on Co-operation Through Sport (CCCS) highlight the significance of the Commonwealth’s most popular activities.
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Sir Charles Tennyson, ‘They Taught the World to Play’, Victorian Studies (1959) 2(3): 211–22
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J. A. Mangan, The Games Ethic and Imperialism: Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal (London, 1986); McIntyre, Significance of the Commonwealth, pp. 224–43.
C. Dheensaw, The Commonwealth Games: The First 60 Years, 1930–1990 (Auckland, 1994).
Chris Laidlaw, Rights of Passage, (Auckland, 1999), pp. 86–7.
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McIntyre, W.D. (2001). Sport and the Commonwealth Games. In: A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403900951_23
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