00:00And in terms of athlete development, like it's easier to get into the teams and Team GB, for example, and
00:07for smaller countries like this year, Gabon and Togo taking part for the first time.
00:12It's obviously a great way to showcase their athletic ability.
00:15So I thought that was very, very interesting.
00:18In terms of the other side, I read that in Glasgow, there are flags of the 28 Commonwealth countries where
00:27same-sex relationships are still criminalised.
00:29Alongside those flags, there are kind of black mourning ribbons to sort of point out that, in fact, like there's,
00:35you know, there's a strong case to be made that these games come with a huge, huge, huge weight in
00:42terms, not just of the colonial and the empire associations,
00:46but also the fact that of all of the nations of the Commonwealth, there's a very, very, very big difference
00:52in terms of where they are progressively.
00:55But I did think that it is a real shame that the BBC won't be won't be airing.
01:00I think that that is a massive shame.
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