Judo has an interesting history in the Commonwealths. Despite being an Olympic sport since the 1960s (the Commonwealth programme, whilst not being exactly the same tends to be similar to the Olympic programme), it only became an official Commonwealth sport in at the Auckland Games in 1990 and since that time has only been held when the Games have been held in the UK.
Given that fact, the overall Commonwealth medal table in the discipline is unsurprisingly dominated by England and Scotland, who have won 36 of the 44 gold medals contested in it. Both nations will hope to continue that trend at these gams. Be on the look out as well for three sets of siblings that will each be hoping for gold – the Deguchi sisters and El Nahas brothers (from Canada) and the Katz brothers from Australia all have realistic chances of taking the top step of the podium in their respective weight classes.
And yes, I know the competition started this morning. I was asleep and didn’t get around to posting this in time (it’s still very early in the US, where I live). I promise I haven’t cheated and looked at the early results though!
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