Blimey, building a special swimming pool just so that you can host a competitive event that you said you would host - whatever next?

" Synchronised swimming has kept its place at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi after the Commonwealth Games Federation recommended the discipline be retained.

The CGF’s executive board recommendation followed an 18-month review to the games sports programme where race walking also looked threatened.

Delhi, host of the 2010 games, had asked to remove the sports from its programme, citing logistical difficulties, including the need to build a new pool especially for synchronised swimming.

The compromise involves staging synchronised swimming in the diving pool, following a dispensation by the sport’s world governing body FINA. "

(Via Latest News Synchronised Swimming retained in 2010 Commonwealth Games: .)

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