Raging bull to remain in Birmingham after Commonwealth Games
May 2021
Other lives
Mike Dyble obituary
Other lives: Marketing executive who worked on Manchester’s Olympic bids in 1996 and 2000, and helped secure the Commonwealth Games in 2002
July 2014
Police stop Sri Lanka Commonwealth Games athletes cycling on motorway
Four members of Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth Games team sparked a police response after going for a bicycle ride down one of Scotland’s busiest motorways
October 2012
The Northerner
Manchester offered 'buried treasure' from its half-forgotten underground loop
Nearly 50 miles of fibre-optic cabling could help propel the city into the world's top 20 tecky cities. And no one's going to have to dig up any roads
July 2012
What the London Olympics could learn from the Manchester Games
Peter Hetherington
If London 2012 had got an end-user for the stadium set up in advance, local government could have reaped the benefits like Manchester city council is from the Commonwealth Games
January 2009
Sportblog
Beware the border crossings that have changed athletics map
Steve Cram: The money thrown at Kaka to leave Milan highlights a situation all sports must come to terms with – cash can buy you success
August 2: A year on from the Commonwealth Games, ten of Manchester's marvels update us on how they have fared.
How the Games lit up a bright and glorious future
August 2: Manchester said farewell to the Commonwealth Games a year ago. Duncan Mackay reports on how the city was left with rich rewards.
'The vibes were positive every day'
August 2: Simon King reflects on the experience of working in the media service at badminton, athletics and judo at last year's Commonwealth Games.
September 2002
On the run
Sierra Leone sent a team of 30 to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester this summer. But after the closing ceremony, when the time came to catch the flight back home, all but 10 had disappeared. Andy Beckett tries to track down the missing athletes.
