The 23-year-old Fraser, who won the 100m at the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and the World Championships in Berlin, announced that she would not be travelling to the Indian capital to compete in the Games because they open on October 3 - which she claims is too late.

She announced her decision after finishing second in the 100m at the latest leg of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.

Fraser finished second to Veronica Campbell-Brown, the double Olympic 200m champion, who had announced more than three months ago that she would not be running in Delhi because it did not fit into her schedule.

Fraser said: "It is a problem for me.

"October is really late.

"It is a long season and trying to peak for the Commonwealth and then coming home in December to start training for a World Championships [next year] is too much to ask especially for someone like me who is a also a student.

"I will be in school.

"I don't think I am going."

The decision is another blow to Suresh Kalmadi,the chairman of the Delhi Organising Committee, who had been hoping that the presence of a strong Jamaican team, who finished second in the medals table at the World Championships in Berlin last year with 13 medals, to help lift the standard of the event.

Last week the triple Olympic and world champion Bolt had confirmed that he would definitely not be there despite his name being included among a preliminary list of entries.

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