The Great City Games is an athletics event in Manchester with a track laid on which thoroughfare?
Sport in Manchester annual Great Manchester Run which has been hosted since 2003 and has become one of the most popular 10 km runs in the UK. In addition, the city also hosts the annual Great City Games, featuring a 110m sprint track on Deansgate in Manchester city centre. The world's top athletes are invited and in 2009 Usain Bolt took part. Manchester is a city that is steeped in Rugby League tradition, although there hadn't been a professional Rugby League club based in Manchester since the Belle Vue Rangers disbanded as a club after the 1954-55 season. However, in 2017, high-level Rugby
City of Manchester Stadium foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Tony Blair in December 1999, and construction began in January 2000. The stadium was designed by Arup Associates and constructed by Laing Construction at a cost of approximately £112 million, £77 million of which was provided by Sport England, with the remainder funded by Manchester City Council. For the Commonwealth Games, the stadium featured a single lower tier of seating running around three sides of the athletics track, and second tiers to the two sides, with an open-air temporary stand at the northern end; initially providing a seating capacity for the Games of