04 Jan: 2018 Sports Preview - World Cup, Commonwealth Games & Athletics

Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 7:57 a.m.

We look forward to an exciting year of sport as Planet Sport correspondent Stuart Weir looks ahead to the Fifa World Cup in Russia, the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England. We get into the mood for the World Cup as we recall our visit to the MaracanĂ£ Stadium in Rio for the 2014 World Cup quarter final between Colombia and Uruguay and we hear from the head of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games organising committee, Peter Beattie.