Oct 1 (Reuters) - The Commonwealth Games, inspired by Englishman John Astley Cooper, started life as the British Empire Games in 1930. They were partly an attempt to boost the prestige of the British ...
Kelly Sotherton celebrated heptathlon gold at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, on this day in 2006. Sotherton, then aged 29, won what proved the sole major title of her career to give England a ...