Glasgow's victorious 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid Team has pledged to deliver the “best Games ever” after Scotland's biggest city beat the Nigerian capital of Abuja by 47 votes to 24 at a summit in Sri Lanka on Friday. The decision by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) delegates destroyed Nigeria's hopes of becoming the first African country to host the event. It will be the third time the Games have been held in Scotland, after the event was first staged in Edinburgh in 1970 and also in 1986. The opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2014.

I really hope after our efforts last year, that in close cooperation with the WCBS, Cue Sports will be represented this time in the Games.

Nothing is impossible, as according to the CGF Constitution, the hosting country has the opportunity to propose the introduction of new sports to the Games, as India did last year.

With good preparation, a real cooperation between all the International Cue Sports Federations we should be able to convince the CGF that our sport deserves the opportunity to be included.

One of the reasons of our failure with the CGF last year, was the lack of the time that in less than two months we had to prepare our submission document without any time to work with the World Pool Association.

I will contact personally the Scottish B&SA Federation to immediately begin the work on this fantastic project.

The WCBS has its AGM next year during April in Chinese Taipei, and I’ll ask to include this matter in the agenda.

If the games are played in 2014, the decision to include any new sports will be taken 4 years in advance of the Games, which means we now have three years to be prepared to present our sport to the CGF.

We therefore will not be able to say anymore the time was not in our favour.