<p>Inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the function turned out to be a comedy of errors with the microphone malfunctioning at the most inopportune of times, jarring when Commonwealth Games’ multiple gold medallist pistol shooter Samresh Jung took the competitors’ oath.<br /><br />As Jung read out the oath, flanked by star trap shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu, the poor sound system blurred out a part of the oath.<br /><br />Security personnel outnumbered the 146 shooters -- 46 of them Indians -- at the ceremony, also attended by Commonwealth Shooting Federation chief Graham Hudson, IOA secretary general Randhir Singh, Commonwealth Games Federation CEO Mike Hooper and officials from the National Rifles Association of India (NRAI).<br /><br />Kalmadi, also the CWG Organising Committee chief, created a spark after saying there would be lapses in security.<br /><br />“There would be some security lapse here and there but everybody would be safe. All the foreign athletes are very happy with the security,” he claimed.<br /><br />However, Kalmadi insisted that the infrastructure would be ready well in time for the Commonwealth Games in October.<br /><br />“All the infrastructure would be ready in time. A few days here and there but it would all be world class. The Games Village would be better than the one we saw in the Beijing Olympics,” he said. <br /><br />The competition starts on Friday and concludes by February 27. <br /><br />Meanwhile, his name figured prominently in the invites sent out for the ceremony but Sports Minister MS Gill was conspicuous by his absence from the inauguration. The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials claimed that he was never supposed to attend the function.<br /></p>
<p>Inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the function turned out to be a comedy of errors with the microphone malfunctioning at the most inopportune of times, jarring when Commonwealth Games’ multiple gold medallist pistol shooter Samresh Jung took the competitors’ oath.<br /><br />As Jung read out the oath, flanked by star trap shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu, the poor sound system blurred out a part of the oath.<br /><br />Security personnel outnumbered the 146 shooters -- 46 of them Indians -- at the ceremony, also attended by Commonwealth Shooting Federation chief Graham Hudson, IOA secretary general Randhir Singh, Commonwealth Games Federation CEO Mike Hooper and officials from the National Rifles Association of India (NRAI).<br /><br />Kalmadi, also the CWG Organising Committee chief, created a spark after saying there would be lapses in security.<br /><br />“There would be some security lapse here and there but everybody would be safe. All the foreign athletes are very happy with the security,” he claimed.<br /><br />However, Kalmadi insisted that the infrastructure would be ready well in time for the Commonwealth Games in October.<br /><br />“All the infrastructure would be ready in time. A few days here and there but it would all be world class. The Games Village would be better than the one we saw in the Beijing Olympics,” he said. <br /><br />The competition starts on Friday and concludes by February 27. <br /><br />Meanwhile, his name figured prominently in the invites sent out for the ceremony but Sports Minister MS Gill was conspicuous by his absence from the inauguration. The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials claimed that he was never supposed to attend the function.<br /></p>