1. Roger Bannister beats John Landy in the "Miracle Mile" at Vancouver 1954
The build-up to the mile at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver was more like a heavyweight world title fight than a running race.
In the ten weeks leading to the Opening Ceremony of Gold Coast 2018 we published a countdown each week of the Top 10 Commonwealth Sport Moments. Roger Bannister and the ”Miracle Mile” was the Top Commonwealth Sport Moment published on the 4th April 2018.
The build-up to the mile at the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver was more like a heavyweight world title fight than a running race.
Athletics is always of a high standard at the Commonwealth Games but the programme at Christchurch 1974 was perhaps the best ever.
In 2002, there was no bigger sportsman in the world than David Beckham, the England footballer who played for Manchester United and whose marriage to a Spice Girl made him an international icon just as likely to appear on the front pages of the newspapers as the back.
At just 16-years-old Cathy Freeman ran her way into the history books at Auckland in 1990 when she became the first female Aboriginal ever to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the 4x100 metres.
Even now, more than 60 years after it happened, the grainy black-and-white newsreel footage is still painful to watch.
If there is one sport at the Commonwealth Games that Australia loves more than any other, it is swimming.
Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female bouts have been effectively outlawed for most of the fight game's history, with officials refusing to sanction contests and most nations officially banning them.
Sport for Para-athletes has existed for more than 100 years but it was not until after World War Two that it became widely introduced to help veterans injured in the conflict recover.
Legend has it that the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were late for an official engagement at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch because she wanted to watch Precious McKenzie win his third consecutive gold medal in weightlifting.
Englishman David Bryant looked like everyone's favourite uncle rather than the ruthless assassin he was when he stepped onto the bowls lawn.