The organisers of the 2010 Games would be on their toes over the next three days as the Coordination Commission (COCOM) of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) begins its two-day recce of the capital’s preparation for the multi-discipline event.
The CGF Coordination Commission (COCOM) has been quite critical of the capital’s preparation and the bad blood between the Organising Committee (OC) and CGF chief executive Mike Hooper has not helped the cause.
COCOM chairman Austin Sealy is already in the capital, taking stock of the preparation. He has already visited the Games village and the Indira Gandhi Stadium besides some of the other venues.
Apart from Sealy, who is from Barbados, Bruce Robertson (Canada), Sharad Rao (Kenya), Perry Crosswhite (Australia), Gideon Sam (South Africa) and Chris Jenkins (Wales), the COCOM also includes Hooper, who seems to have buried his hatchet with the OC and is ready to work in tandem.
OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi had earlier described Hooper as an “impediment” to the preparation.
