Australia’s Victoria State will not host the 2026 Commonwealth Games

Australia’s Victoria State will not host the 2026 Commonwealth Games: It will not host the games due to projected exceeding expenditures. According to Victoria State Premier Dan Andrews, the cost of the Games was going more than twice the estimated economic benefit the Games would bring to the state.

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According to Andrews, the cost of the Games could be more than 7 billion Australian dollars from a budgeted 2.6 billion Australian dollars. The 2026 Games were set to take place in the Victorian cities of Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland, and Shepparton from March 17 to March 29.

Commonwealth Games take place every four years. Australia hosted the Games in 2018 at the Gold Coast. The 2022 Commonwealth Games took place in Birmingham, England between 28 July and 8 August 2022. Victoria is a state in southeast Australia. Its capital is Melbourne.

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