President of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA), Christopher Samuda labelled the decision of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to set athletics and swimming as the only two compulsory disciplines at the Games from 2026 onwards as a “body blow to sports”. Samuda said the decision was based solely on the economics of running a multi-disciplinary Games and felt it would impact the development of sport. “The reduction of the compulsory sports from 16 to two by the CGF is really a body blow to sports,” Samuda told the Jamaica Observer newspaper. “But clearly it is a response to the growing…