CWG: Commonwealth game, Delhi 2010

CWG 2010 is the nineteenth Commonwealth Games organizing in Delhi, Capital of India. This is the first time that India is organizing Commonwealth games. CWG was organized in Asia only once before.

This is the biggest sports event, India has ever organized. India has organized Asian games twice, in 1951 and 1982.

Opening ceremony of the CWG Delhi 2010 will be held on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. It is officially declared as a "Green CWG" as the organizers have signed MOU with UNO.

17 games will be played officially in the CWG 2010. These are Aquatics, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Hockey, Lawn Bowls. Netball, Rugby sevens, Shooting, Squash, Table Tennis, Tennis, Weightlifting and Wrestling.

Kabaddi will also be a demonstration sport at the CWG 2010.

These sports events CWG 2010, Delhi will be organized in several stadiums and sports complexes such as Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Siri Fort Sports Complex. Talkatora Stadium, I. G. Indoor Stadium Complex, Maj. Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Thyagaraj Sports Complex, Delhi University, Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, Siri Fort Sports Complex, Yamuna Sports Complex and R.K. Khanna Tennis Complex.

India has spend approximately Rs. 700 B in providing infrastructure for the games. It is the costliest ever Commonwealth Games.

Closing Ceremony Commonwealth games

Mascot: Shera is the official mascot of the nineteenth Commonwealth Games being organized in Delhi. Shera is an Urdu word similar to Hindi Bagh that means tiger. Tiger is also the National animal of India.

Idiom Design and Consulting has deigned the official logo of the Commonwealth games 2010. A song for Shera is also composed by the popular composer of INDIA. The song contains initiative " Shera Shera ".

The mascot Shera has visited many schools across the city to create enthusiasm and interest for the Commonwealth Games organized in Delhi.

"Come out and play" is the slogan of the CWG 2010.

Official song

Title of the Official song is based on the official slogan of the Commonwealth games 2010 "Come out and play".

Renowned Indian musician A. R. Rahman has composed and performed this official song. Famous writer Mehboob has written the song in Hindi language with sprinkling of English words. The song was released on 28 August 2010.

Bharath Bala has directed the music video that was released on September 23.The official video of the song has been released on You Tube.

A live concert for the theme song was presented by A. R. Rahman himself at Gurgaon, Haryana. This was previewed on various news channels.

The Queen's Baton, designed by Michael Foley, contains message of Queen Elizabeth II to the athletes. It left Buckingham Palace on 29 October 2009 and arrived in India on 25th June 2010 after visiting the other 54 nations of the Commonwealth through the Wagah Border crossing from Pakistan.

The baton will arrive at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi on the opening ceremony of CWG 2010 on October 3 traveling throughout India. The baton is a triangular section of aluminum twisted into a helix shape and then coated with colored soils collected from all the regions of India. The colored soils are used for the first time for designing of a Queen's Baton. The Queen's message is laser-engraved onto a miniature 18 carat gold leaf representing ancient Indian 'Patra’ (letter). The Patra is put and preserved in a jewel-encrusted box.

LEDs (light emitting diodes) embedded in the Baton has changed into the colors of a country’s flag while in that country.

The Queen's baton is able to capture images and sound and embedded with global positioning system (GPS) to track it.

Commonwealth Games are the biggest sports events in the world but Olympics. Large numbers of countries participate in CWG. It is expected that 71 countries across the globe will participate in CWG Delhi, 2010. All of these countries were part of British Kingdom in the past.

Fiji is suspended from he Commonwealth. Hence it will not take part in the games. Rwanda has become part of Commonwealth in 2009 and it will be a participant in CWG for the first time.

Participating countries are as follows (Alphabetic list):

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, England, Falkland Islands,Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar,Grenada,Guernsey, Guyana,India,Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat,Mozambique,Namibia,Nauru,New Zealand, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Scotland, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Wales and Zambia.