Synchronised Swimming retained in 2010 Commonwealth Games
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.
However, Fennell made it clear that the disciplines’ place is not guaranteed for the 2014 games, saying that the sports “are clearly on notice” that unless numbers increase in these events in Delhi, it will be difficult for them and their supporters to argue for an on-going involvement.
The SGF sports committee will re-visit the matter after 2010 and make further recommendations at that time.
The CGF said last week that the place of the disciplines had come under pressure because of the consistently low number of entries and the relative costs to support them.
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