Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi
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Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010
The XIX Commonwealth Games is to be staged in India in October 2010. The baton is handed over to the President of India Prathibha Pateel by Queen Elizabeth. The programme was conducted right in front of the Buckingham Palace, London. The first Indian Olympic Gold winner Abhinav Bindra gave life to the baton relay in London on 29th October 2009.
The Indian President Prathibha Pateel at first handed over the Commonwealth Games baton to the Indian sports minister Mr. M.S. Gill and the minister later handed over the baton to the Commonwealth Games organization president Mr. Suresh Kalmadi and then it finally came to the hands of Mr. Abhinav Bindra, the hero of Indian sports. A good number of Indian fabulous past and present sport stars including Vijendar Singh, Suseel Kumar, Karnam Malleswary, Sania Mirza, Milkha Singh, Gurbachan Singh Raghava, Prakash Padukone, Misha Greyval, Dileep Turkey and Kapil Dev were present at the program. As part of the program there were some entertainment programs staged in London which included some of the traditional dance forms of India including Kathak and Bharatanatyam. The design of the baton is superb and praise worthy.
The baton relay in 240 days will travel through all the 70 Commonwealth Games nations and will reach India on 25th June 2009. The baton will have a long time journey in India about 100 days and will get into the Javaharlal Nehru Stadium on 3rd of October 2009. By October 3, 2009 the baton will have traveled 190,000 kms in 340 days. Indians can be proud that the last 100 days of the 340 days of the Commonwealth baton relay will be within India.