- Day one schedule includes lawn bowls, badminton and triathlon
- Commonwealth Games open with celebration of Birmingham
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The lawn bowls and para lawn bowls are well under way. In case you didn’t know, lawn bowls has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural event in 1930. It has featured at every Games bar 1966, when it was dropped owing to the lack of available bowling greens in Kingston, Jamaica.
Missed the opening ceremony last night? Don’t worry, much of the visual spectacle has been captured in the form of photography, a newish technological advance which allows us to create lasting images by recording light.
