Commonwealth Games have become much more important for Indian athletes

Since the CWG rank below the Asian Games in the pecking order of multidiscipline games, most athletes prefer to peak at the latter. As per the earlier schedule, the Hangzhou Asian Games were going to held just a month after the CWG. With the Asian event now pushed back to the next year owing to the Covid-19 situation in China, the Birmingham Games have assumed a much greater significance.

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