We have to keep Commonwealth Games going - Kenny

Dame Laura Kenny hopes that a metropolis steps up to big nan 2030 Commonwealth Games, pinch Glasgow to big a scaled-back 2026 edition.

The Scottish metropolis was named charismatic host aft nan Australian authorities of Victoria withdrew owed to rising costs, but a number of events whitethorn not return spot astatine nan Glasgow Games.

Kenny, Great Britain's astir dressed up female Olympian, said that unless cities make a large effort to big nan arena successful its entirety, nan semipermanent early of nan Commonwealth Games is astatine risk.

"I really dream that personification steps up and says 'we'll return nan adjacent one', because erstwhile sporting events disappear, you very seldom spot them travel back," Kenny told BBC Breakfast.

"I deliberation we person to deliberation astir nan history. The Commonwealth Games person been going for truthful long, it seems specified a shame to conscionable time off it and conscionable hide astir nan history of nan sport.

"It brings truthful galore nations together, it's a multi-sport arena and it's connected a immense stage, we person to support it going."

The scheme is to shape arsenic fewer arsenic 10 sports successful Glasgow, though it is not yet clear which sports will beryllium cut.

Kenny, who won Commonwealth way cycling golden successful 2014 and 2022, said location should beryllium attraction connected prioritising sports that are not included astatine nan Olympics.

"I conscionable dream that they return into information non-Olympic sports, because nan Commonwealths for nan likes of netball are really nan only ray that they really get shone connected their sport," Kenny added.

"For me, erstwhile they deliberation 'we'll propulsion this 1 aliases propulsion that one', [it is important] it is done successful a measurement that is adjacent I guess, because nan Olympics is immense and that is wherever a batch group will watch.

"Ultimately, nan Commonwealth Games for a batch of these sports are their Olympics."