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Delhi Commonwealth Games Trivia

  • The XIX Commonwealth Games will be in Delhi, India - held from Oct 3 to Oct 14, 2010.

  • The opening and closing ceremony will be at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Oct 3 and Oct 14 respectively.

  • This will be the first time India has hosted the Games and only the second time the event has been held in Asia.

  • The Delhi Games Village is to be constructed as a low rise medium development on a 40 acre site in the heart of the capital with a possible capacity for 8,500 athletes and officials.

  • Delhi won the right to host the 2010 Games by defeating the Canadian city of Hamilton by 46 votes to 22 at the CGF General Assembly held in Montego Bay in November 2003.

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