The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta from 3–12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec. They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest at New Zealand’s sporting contacts with apartheid-era South Africa, as well as by Uganda, in protest at alleged Canadian hostility towards the government of Idi Amin. The Bid Election was held at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
This was the first Commonwealth Games where a computerized system was used to handle ticket sales, and the first Games to be named Commonwealth Games, having dropped British. Queen Elizabeth II opened the Games: the first time since becoming Queen in 1952.
