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Watch live coverage and daily video highlights. Go to BigPond for more. Links open in new window. Live coverage available within Australia only. View the excitement of the Closing Ceremony. The spectacular performances of the Games Opening Ceremony, Melbourne's biggest ever celebration.

Revisit the Opening Ceremony. Quote of the Games. Template Commonwealth Games Calendar. He was the "Best Athlete of the 18th Commonwealth Games". Note:The country coloured in blue is the host country i. Leisel Jones won four gold medals in the swimming competition, sweeping the breaststroke events and the medley relay. There were 71 countries, territories and bodies competing at the Commonwealth Games. On 22 March it was reported that seven athletes from Sierra Leone three women and four men had also disappeared.

A further seven Sierra Leonean athletes also went missing during the course of the Games, bringing the total runaway count to fourteen two-thirds of the team. Victoria Police believed that they had fled to Sydney where the Sierra Leonean community is much larger than Melbourne's. Two hours before the Closing Ceremony on 26 March, officials from the Cameroon team reported to police that nine of their members had also vanished.

These incidents were not without precedent: 27 athletes similarly disappeared from the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England 21 from Sierra Leone, 5 from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan , and over 80 athletes and officials overstayed their visas after the Summer Olympics in Sydney. On request of Sierra Leone officials, the Commonwealth Games Federation cancelled those athletes' Games accreditation, allowing the Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs DIMA to cancel their visas at midnight on 27 March, and begin investigating their disappearance.

Template:Wikinews At 7. All six indicated they wished to seek political asylum in Australia , and were granted bridging visas by DIMA while their refugee applications were arranged. The athletes claimed to have been subjected to violence and torture in their home country; seventeen-year-old Isha Conteh stated she could be forced into female genital cutting if she returned. Two of the missing Cameroonian athletes were later found in Perth, Western Australia.

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