{"id":85505,"date":"2023-07-25T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=85505"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:45:52","slug":"australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=85505","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Victoria state withdraws as host of Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP):<br \/>\n Australia&#8217;s Victoria state has withdrawn as host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games because of a massive increase in the projected cost of staging the multi-sports event.<br \/>\nVictoria Premier Daniel Andrews, today, said his government last year agreed to host the next edition of the quadrennial event &#8220;but not at any cost.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said his government had initially budgeted AU$2.6 billion (US$1.8 billion) to stage the Games in five regional cities&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-star.com\/article\/sports\/20230718\/australia%E2%80%99s-victoria-state-withdraws-host-commonwealth-games\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Australia&#8217;s Victoria state has withdrawn as host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/85505-australias-victoria-state-withdraws-as-host-of-commonwealth-games.png",1,1,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}