Topic:	Cornish International Sport
Tumbled Posts: 135 Posted: 2.Feb 2005 - 10:08	If you are a Cornish participant or organiser of any of these sports listed in the webpage below and wish to take part in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, please email graham.hart@btconnect.com as soon as possible. http://home.btconnect.com/graham-hart/melbourne.htm Aquatics : Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Cycling Gymnastics Hockey Lawn Bowls Netball Rugby Sevens Shooting Squash Table Tennis Triathlon Weightlifting Events for Athletes with a Disability - EAD Athletics Swimming Table Tennis Powerlifting More details can be found here:- http://home.btconnect.com/graham-hart/cornishsport.htm
Tumbled Posts: 135 Posted: 2.Feb 2005 - 10:17	http://www.ccga.org.uk/
Joe Posts: 772 Posted: 2.Feb 2005 - 10:18	This is a great idea, we should do all we can to support it.
Fulub-le-Breton Posts: 4273 Posted: 2.Feb 2005 - 11:02	Put another post on the BBC and this is Cornwall then, tout suite! Thread on this site http://www.cornwall24.co.uk/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=134&sid=395eb2e1a8643ddedb18a3597bad16ac
Anonymous Unregistered User Posted: 4.Feb 2005 - 18:47	http://home.btconnect.com/graham-hart/comments.htm Isle on Man site here http://www.cga.iofm.net/
Tumbled Posts: 135 Posted: 11.Feb 2005 - 13:03	http://home.btconnect.com/graham-hart/cis-index.htm
Tumbled Posts: 135 Posted: 13.Feb 2005 - 11:49	http://www.ccga.org.uk/
Tumbled Posts: 135 Posted: 24.Mar 2005 - 13:36	A reply from the Sport , Media and Culture Minister the Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP , was received on the 21st of March 2005 . It stated that : " Participation in the Commonwealth Games is not a matter for the Government but falls within the remit of the Commonwealth Games Committee ( CGF ) who are the supreme authority in all matters affecting the Commonwealth Games . It is now the task of the Campaign to form a Cornwall Commonwealth Games Committee and prepare a formal application . This is now in hand and details will appear here when completed . If you are interested in being involved , please contact graham.hart@btconnect.com as soon as possible . http://home.btconnect.com/graham-hart/cis-index.htm
AndyQ Posts: 733 Posted: 7.Jun 2005 - 17:29	Edited by AndyQ
troll Posts: 567 Posted: 7.Jun 2005 - 20:00	He lives!
srule Posts: 89 Posted: 7.Jun 2005 - 23:15	Due to Tumbled's positve persistance i have printed a copy of the online petition and will be gathering signatures, i urge all other people who are interested in Cornish sport and its implications on the Cornish identity to do the same. Everything worthwhile starts with the first step, lets hope we have big feet.
SaneMan Posts: 160 Posted: 8.Jun 2005 - 02:09	"troll"He lives! What the hell does that mean troll ?
porthia1947 Posts: 698 Posted: 8.Jun 2005 - 09:38	I have just found the Cornwall Commonwealth Games Committee web pages- thanks Graham, Tumled and others for pointing it out. Quoting part of Graham Hart's intro to the web site, "......... because it's my game; the game I love - but was never over enthralled by any other English sporting success . I enjoyed them very much but something was missing . The passion and all that goes with it." I know what you mean Graham, although from childhood in a west Cornwall town rugby was the only "football" I knew, I have never got that shiver, that elation, that surge of serotonins for Englands successes. Some Cornish people do and some don't - that's the way humans are. Thanks Graham to you and all your colleages for your efforts and Chris_I for this web site. It's great what your doing!!
AndyQ Posts: 733 Posted: 8.Jun 2005 - 12:06	"troll"He lives! You bet Troll, and i'm on a mission from Gad!!!
troll Posts: 567 Posted: 8.Jun 2005 - 18:15	Yeah, I know, I sent you.
Fulub-le-Breton Posts: 4273 Posted: 28.Aug 2005 - 22:00	Demat, penaos 'maÃ± kont? Hello, how are you doing? Just some ideas and thoughts that have occurred to me that i would like to share with you for the benefit of your excellent venture. Firstly As i am sure you are aware, if successful, Cornish International Sport would give a huge boost to Cornish national identity and be a big step in the general recognition of Cornwall being a Celtic nation. As such you have adversaries in all walks of life and many a British institution who will go out of their way to scupper your ('our' i say as a Cornishman) aspirations. In such circumstances it is worth studying cases of other small nations that have tried to express there sporting natures and the methods used by the central state and other organisations to try and stop them. One such circumstance is the Breton 'National' Football team. None of the "French" regions have football teams only the cities. However the cunning Bretons created a Breton Football Association, a Breton Team and even organised some international matches with the likes of Cuba and Cameroon. At the end of the day only the Brittany V Cameroon game was played but the story is not over and efforts are still afoot to organise more matches. The Breton Football Association can be contacted at : http://bfa.ifrance.com/bfa.htm The BFA's story may well contain important lessons for CIS indeed they may be worth contacting in the spirit of Celtic cooperation. Secondly Why not make the CIS movement a showcase, in some way for traditional Cornish sports such as Cornish Wrestling and Hurling and maybe even not so traditional sports like Surfing (just an idea). Lastly Have you contacted the Duchy to see if they would support you, you never know and if Charles did put in a few positive words it could make all the difference. GwellaÃ± gourc'hemennoÃ¹ Regards FLB
Fulub-le-Breton Posts: 4273 Posted: 30.Aug 2005 - 12:59	Sent the above message to the CIS site but it got returned.
Abieuan Posts: 272 Posted: 5.Jan 2006 - 00:14	Fulub wrote; QuoteOne such circumstance is the Breton 'National' Football team. None of the "French" regions have football teams only the cities. However the cunning Bretons created a Breton Football Association, a Breton Team and even organised some international matches with the likes of Cuba and Cameroon. Last week Galicia played an international football match against Uruguay - and won 3-2 !
nxylas Posts: 346 Posted: 21.Sep 2006 - 20:51	I forward part of an email from David Robins regarding an attempt to get representation for Wessex at the Commonwealth Games, in case the information contained therein is useful to the Cornish campaign. QuoteBob Craig has been researching how we could get Wessex represented at the Commonwealth Games. Apparently (see Article 21 of the Constitution at www.thecgf.com), we need as a minimum to have teams in five specified sports - athletics, aquatics/swimming, lawn bowls, rugby sevens (men) and netball (women). So we would need to get in touch with local associations for these sports. (snip) We would also need to think about approaching potential sponsors, possibly Wessex Water.