Malaysia says it has been supplied £100m to assist the nation host the 2026 Commonwealth Video games.
The Video games is presently with no host after the Australian state of Victoria cancelled its plans final July due to hovering prices.
Malaysia’s Olympic Council says it acquired a proper invitation from the Commonwealth Video games Federation (CGF) to interchange Victoria as hosts final month.
The CGF says it’s in “superior discussions” with potential hosts.
A press release on the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) web site stated the £100m would assist “the native supply and legacy planning” of the 2026 Video games.
Malaysia has hosted the Video games as soon as earlier than, within the nation’s capital Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
President of Commonwealth Video games Affiliation of Malaysia Mohamad Norza Zakaria stated the prospect to host in 2026 was a “as soon as in a lifetime alternative to construct on the success of 1998” and put the nation “again on to the world sporting map”.
A CGF spokesman informed BBC Sport that £100m of “monetary and strategic assist” has been made accessible for potential hosts as a part of Victoria’s withdrawal settlement.
A press release learn: “The CGF is in superior, confidential discussions with potential hosts to safe an answer for the 2026 Video games that conjures up athletes and helps remodel the Video games to a really sustainable mannequin.
“Malaysia has a incredible monitor file of delivering sporting occasions and the 1998 Commonwealth Video games in Kuala Lumpur had been massively profitable. We’re inspired by their early ideas of constructing on this legacy by way of use of most of the similar world-class amenities.
“We welcome modern proposals and are in optimistic discussions with potential hosts. We’re dedicated to offering an replace on the expedited course of, and giving larger readability to our stakeholders and athletes, as quickly as attainable.”
The Commonwealth Video games is a multi-sport occasion which takes place each 4 years. It has solely ever been cancelled twice, in 1942 and 1946, due to World Struggle Two.
To be eligible to take part, rivals have to be from one of many Commonwealth’s greater than 70 nations or territories – lots of which had been as soon as a part of the British Empire.