Melbourne's Commonwealth Games came to a sparkling close tonight. Earlier the Melbourne Cricket Ground had pulsed to music from Australia and India, the next host country of the Games in 2010. Bhangra and Bollywood were on show at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a traditional preview for the next host of the Games, and it was presented in magnificent style. Aound 800 Indian performers, including former Miss World and now movie star Aishwarya Rai, fellow silver screen studs Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee, and cricket great Sunhil Gavaskar were on hand to mark the hand over of the Games to New Delhi. Gavaskar, earlier in the week called for cricket to be included as a Commonwealth Games sport.
The Commonwealth Games is a unique, friendly, world class, multi-sports Games, which is held once every four years.
Singapore, Malaysia and India added five more gold medals to the Asian haul Sunday, making the Melbourne Commonwealth Games a glittering success for regional nations.
Singapore ended the Games with 18 medals, including five gold. In table tennis singles, the Singapore women had a clean sweep adding gold, silver and bronze to the city state's medal count.
Final medals table at the end of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday: (Tabulate under: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total)
Top 11:
Australia - 83 67 67 217
England - 35 40 34 109
Canada - 26 29 31 86
India - 22 17 11 50
South Africa - 12 12 13 37
Scotland - 11 7 11 29
Jamaica - 10 4 8 22
Malaysia - 7 12 10 29
Kenya - 6 5 7 18
New Zealand - 5 12 13 30
Singapore - 5 6 7 18
Melbourne has upped the bar in hosting excellence and now it is New Delhi's turn to do even better.
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