What I learned from the Commonwealth Games 2014:
- was attended by 71 countries and 7000 athletes
- there are many nations that I did not know (at least 5/6 around Australia and New Zealand)
- for all the participants are as important as the Olympics and maybe more, because many athletes in this competition can aspire to a medal that at the Olympics would be almost impossible
- as always win the athletes who best manages the competitive pressure and they are not always the best to do it.
- even small countries like Cyprus can win 5 medals
- small countries who win a medal are those in which the athletes are not influenced by the reduced size of their nation but travel abroad to compete regularly and frequently.
- to win you must often compete at the international level in order to learn how to cope with the stress which increases wildly when you understand that you can really get into the finals and fight for a medal. Those who go beyond these moments can do it, otherwise they gets scared and collapses. And this is happened.
