Golden opportunity: More medal events for women than men at Commonwealth Games

The long-established Commonwealth Games will be bringing in something new.

There'll be 136 gold medals awarded to women, 134 on offer for men, and 10 in mixed events when the 11-day Commonwealth Games, which started out in 1930 as the British Empire Games, is staged in England for the third time.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce could be lining up for one of them, just weeks after she won the 100 metres at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

The 35-year-old Jamaican, a five-time world champion in the 100 and three-time Olympic gold medallist, has never claimed an individual gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Fraser-Pryce led a medal sweep for Jamaica in the 100 at the world championships in front of Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah. She finished second to Jackson in the 200, with Dina Asher-Smith of Britain taking bronze to prevent a back-to-back sprint sweep for Jamaica.

After finishing off with a silver medal with the Jamaican women's 4x100 relay, Fraser-Pryce posted a message to fans on Facebook: "See you at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham!"

Asher-Smith already started thinking about Birmingham when she took bronze in the 200.

"Can't wait to go to the Commonwealth Games next week, halfway across the world!" she said in a post-race interview with the BBC. "I still think the crowd at the Commonwealth Games is going to be amazing ... better, because I'm a Brit."

Canada is sending 272 athletes to compete in 18 sports and five Para sports from July 28 to Aug. 8 in England.

The Indian contingent had a setback on the eve of the Games, when Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra withdrew from the team after doctors recommended he focus on rehabilitation for the groin injury he sustained on the way to a silver