- A move to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Gamesarchery and shooting competitions in India, six months before Birmingham hosts the rest of the Games, has been approved.
- The Commonwealth Games Federation announced that the competitions would take place in Chandigarh in January of that year.
- Birmingham 2022 will begin on 27 July 2022, five months after the Commonwealth championships in Chandigarh, and with a packed programme of 19 sports.
