Downing Road says it hopes a “viable resolution” will be discovered for the 2026 Commonwealth Video games to be held in Australia, insisting the concept of the UK stepping in to host the occasion is “getting barely forward of ourselves”.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews introduced the state’s withdrawal on Tuesday, citing a considerable rise in predicted staging prices.
Different states then dominated out the opportunity of internet hosting the Video games.
“It is a disappointing final result for each followers and athletes,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official spokesman stated.
“We hope that the Victoria state authorities, the Video games federation and Commonwealth Video games Australia will now work collectively to discover a viable resolution to internet hosting the occasion in 2026.”
It stays to be seen whether or not a UK metropolis or area comes ahead to supply itself as a alternative, as was the case when the worldwide governing physique, the Commonwealth Video games Federation, stripped South African metropolis Durban of the internet hosting rights for 2022 again in 2017.
Birmingham in the end received the race to stage these Video games, with the Authorities saying in 2019 that the occasion would value £778 million to stage in complete, cut up 75-25 between central authorities and Birmingham Metropolis Council.
Requested if the federal government would encourage a house nation to step in to host the 2026 occasion, the spokesman stated: “We’re getting barely forward of ourselves.
“Within the first occasion it’s for these our bodies and teams I’ve simply talked about to have these discussions and see if an answer will be discovered.
“Clearly the UK has been honoured to host the Video games twice up to now decade (Birmingham 2022 and Glasgow 2014) so we are going to see what comes out of these preliminary discussions.”
The chance was welcomed by Katie Sadleir, chief government of the Commonwealth Video games Federation.
“The UK are implausible hosts and we might be very open to having a dialog with them about it, if that’s one thing they might be eager about doing,” she stated.
The nationwide Commonwealth federations of England, Scotland and Wales expressed their disappointment on the information regarding Victoria.
Commonwealth Video games England described the information as “massively unsettling” for athletes.