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In New Delhi, it's a race against time for the organisers to clean up the mess around the stadium as more and more athletes continue to pull out. Tubby Reddy, the Sascoc chief executive officer, confirmed fears that India was not ready to host the Games, scheduled to run from October 3 to 14. "We have been monitoring the situation on a month-to-month basis and found that the facilities are currently not appropriate to stage the Games," Reddy said this week.
"I have been told that only 18 of the 34 blocks that will house athletes during the Games have been sufficiently finished," said Reddy.

The transfer of the Games Village to the Delhi Government has taken place in the wake of complaints from various Commonwealth Games Associations about poor hygienic conditions at the venue. Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation Mike Hooper had gone to the extent of terming the condition “filthy and unimaginable'' and its president Mike Fennel had lodged a written complaint with the Cabinet Secretary. There was more bad publicity for the Games on Tuesday when a pedestrian suspension bridge for athletes collapsed, injuring 27 workers. It was to be an important link between the athlete's car park and Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, the venue of the opening ceremony. As a result, an Australian discus champion and a British triple jumper have pulled out, citing safety and security concerns. A day after the bridge collapsed, The Times of India reported that another embarrassment had hit the troubled Games -- the ceiling of the weightlifting arena at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium also collapsed. According to the reports, the ceiling fell "directly over the field of pay". Security concerns surrounding the Games have also been heightened in the wake of the shooting of two Taiwanese nationals traveling in a tourist bus outside the Jama Masjid in the walled city area here on Sunday.

The Commonwealth Games: The Games Village still not prepared