Commonwealth Games venue delay forces test event shift
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Organisers have been forced to move the Commonwealth wrestling championships out of New Delhi in December due to the delay in the venue being built for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the capital.
"The indoor stadium was supposed to be completed in November. It has been delayed and we had to confirm the venue, so we will now hold this in Jalandhar," Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) secretary Kartar Singh told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Commonwealth meet on Dec. 17 and 18 was supposed to have been a test event for the games. The Asian championships in June will now be held at the venue as a trial event, he added.
Several venues are running behind schedule for the Oct 3-14 games. The government said this month that work on 12 out of 17 projects was less than half complete.
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