Swimmers sick at Commonwealth Games

Questions are being asked about the water quality at the New Delhi pool as 15 swimmers have caught a virus.

In the latest embarrassment to hit India’s troubled Commonwealth Games, English and Australian team doctors are blaming poor water quality for a stomach virus that has swept through their teams. Australian Andrew Lauterstein had to pull out of the 50-metre butterfly race yesterday. Commonwealth Games Federation president Mike Fennell said that officials are urgently looking into the conditions of both the main pool and the warm-up pool at the Dr. S.P. Makherjee Aquatic Complex. The competition has been dogged by set-backs, including construction delays, security concerns, poor ticket sales, and an outbreak of dengue fever.