New Delhi 2010



Pendleton joins exodus from Commonwealth Games

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

July 19 - Olympic and world cycling champion Victoria Pendleton has joined Usain Bolt and Sir Chris Hoy in pulling out of this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, another serious blow to organisers growing increasingly frustrated at having invested hundreds of millions of pounds on building facilites that look increasingly likely to play host to a second-rate competition.