September 10 - Finnish company Vaisala has won a multi-million pound tender in August to set up 60 automatic weather stations across Delhi to provide high-quality weather services for the Commonwealth Games next year, it has been announced.
September 9 - Fiji hopes to discover next month whether they can still compete in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
September 8 - Indian builders are working around the clock to try to make sure that the £200 million Athletes Village for next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi is finished in time.
September 7 - Commonwealth Games organisers are seeking an Indian sponsor to try to encourage Usain Bolt (pictured) to commit himself to the event in New Delhi next year.
September 2 - Fiji is still optimistic about being able to take part in next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi despite the country's suspension yesterday from the Commonwealth because its military regime refuses to hold elections.
September 1 - Health inspectors in New Delhi have been forced to fumigate the site of the Commonwealth Games Village after dengue mosquitoes were found breeding at the construction site.
September 1 - Planned investment of £23.5 million to ensure Scotland capitalises on the economic, social and cultural advantages of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games was announced by the Government today.September 1- Fiji is set to miss next year's Commonwealth Games if, as expected, if it does not respond by the end of the day to a demand to begin restoring democracy.
AUGUST 30 - NAIROBI is planning to bid for the 2015 All-Africa Games and the 2018 Commonwealth Games as part of an ambitious multi-billion pound programme to regenerate the city.
August 30 - As many as 16 hotel projects in New Delhi the Indian Government hoped would provide accommodation for next year's Commonwealth Games are set to miss their target, leaving a shortfall of nearly 3,000 rooms.
August 29 - India's preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games have been put under pressure by the country hosting so many other major events in the build-up, Sports Minister M.S Gill (pictured) claimed today.
August 27 - Baker Warburtons and sportscotland have joined forces to create a new scheme to help cover the costs of helping the country's young athletes prepare for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, it has been announced.
August 25 - Corporate Edge, brand, design and communication experts, have been given the task of giving Commonwealth Games England (CGE) a new look before next year's event in New Delhi.
August 24 - India's Sports Minister M.S.Gill (pictured) today again promised every possible effort is being made to ensure that venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi are ready in time.
SEPTEMBER 24 - THE father of four-time Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy said today he would not have named the velodrome being built for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after his son.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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