India will know March 12 if three more events, archery, tennis and cue sports, will be included in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is to vote on the matter Sunday.
Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of the 2010 Games Organising Committee said, “we are lobbying hard to get three more events included after CGF cleared 15 disciplines. The CGF Executive Committee meets in Melbourne on March 11 and the General Assembly on the next day. All 71 members of CGF will be there to vote for or against the demand and we are optimistic about it”.
But he told AFP, “as of now cricket is out of the 2010 Games. We keep asking the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India to confirm whether they want to be part of the Games, but they have no time to answer our question. Maybe they are just not interested”. But he added, “we will consider it if the BCCI asks us to. It is then up to them and the International Cricket Council to decide on the format”.
Cricket is not included in next week’s Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
Billiards and Snooker Federation of India president P.N. Roy will be attending a meeting in Melbourne March 11 and 12 to seek support of other member countries to include cue sports in Delhi’s Commonwealth Games.
Meanwhile the Wishu Federation of Malaysia (WFM) will make a formal proposal to the CGF to include Wishu in the 2010 Delhi Games. WFM president Datuk Seri Kee Yong Wee, who is also Commonwealth Games chef-de-mission of the Malaysian contingent at the Melbourne Games, said IWUF secretary general Wang Xiao Lin will meet with CGF CEO Michael Cooper in Melbourne next week to put forward the proposal of forming the Commonwealth Wushu Federation.
