Generation next response to Commonwealth Games farce

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Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has shifted its attraction to the Trinbago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games successful the aftermath of the Victorian government's determination to scrap the 2026 Commonwealth Games successful the state.

Next month's Commonwealth Youth Games, which platforms the sporting achievements of athletes nether 18 years of age, volition instrumentality spot connected the Islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

Following State premier Daniel Andrews' announcement that the 2026 Games volition not spell ahead, CGA brag Craig Phillips said the organisation is diverting the attraction to the pathway athletes competing successful Port of Spain.

"It's been a challenging clip for Commonwealth sport, but our absorption present shifts to Trinbago 2023, and the younker athletes acceptable to bash Australia arrogant against much than 1000 athletes from crossed the world," helium said successful a statement.

Members of Australia's Commonwealth Youth Games squad showcase the contention kit for Trinbago 2023. (Instagram: @commgamesaus)

Australia's astir palmy pistillate Paralympic jock Ellie Cole volition pb Australia's Commonwealth Youth Games Team aft transitioning to squad enactment pursuing her status from para-swimming past August.

"The accidental to pb this young, energetic and talented squad alongside my chap Birmingham starter Greg Hire is simply a privilege," Cole said successful a statement.

"I emotion everything astir the Commonwealth Games, peculiarly the information that able-bodied and para-athletes vie arsenic one, and I'm hoping to instil that enthusiasm for the question successful those competing successful Trinidad and Tobago."

"This volition beryllium the archetypal sensation of planetary contention for a fig of athletes, with galore nary uncertainty going connected to vie astatine Olympic, Paralympic or, of course, Commonwealth Games, successful the future."

Team Australia, comprising 75 athletes supported by 39 officials, volition enactment successful a three-day pre-departure campy opening Thursday successful Sydney earlier completing their last preparations successful the American metropolis of Houston truthful acclimatise to the conditions.

The 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games runs from August 4-11.

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