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Now stadium ceiling collapses to leave Games on the brink

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 7:48 pm
by BallOil
Another day of chaos moved the Commonwealth Games closer to the brink of cancellation even though England decided to send their men's hockey team and six lawn bowlers to Delhi on Wednesday night.

The defiant move to despatch an advance party of 22 athletes plus coaching staff to the Indian capital today was announced just hours after the ceiling of the weightlifting centre, part of the main Nehru Stadium, collapsed.
What a shambles: Nehru Stadium resembled a building site as workers carried out emergency repairs

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Re: Now stadium ceiling collapses to leave Games on the brin

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:23 pm
by mikesiva
Fortunately, the opening ceremony went off without any falling plaster....
:D