Commonwealth Games team announced

The Cook Islands Sports & National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) hosted a press conference today (Friday) to unveil its list of athletes and officials who will attend the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
The Games, slated for October 3-14 in New Delhi, India, will feature 17 sports. The Cook Islands will compete in six of those codes: athletics, boxing, lawn bowls, netball, tennis and weightlifting.
The Delhi Games will mark the first time tennis has been included in the event and Cook Islander Brittany Teei will be part of this history-making competition.
The Cook Islands contingent, which departs for India on September 26, consists of an eight-member management team and 41 athletes, along with CISNOC president Sir Geoffrey Henry and secretary-general Rosie Blake.
Henry told the various code reps at Friday’s meeting that all players and athletes would stay in the Games Village, with the cost for all fares and accommodation will be covered by the Commonwealth Games organizing committee.
But, Henry warned, there are still a number of other costs the local organizers have to cover.
“The insurance is about $12,000 for all the players and officials who are going,” he said. “And uniforms have cost $18,000. You, the codes, have to take care of your own playing uniforms.”
The Cook Islands lawn bowling team will have the most participants, with 14, while tennis, with Teei the lone rep, is the country’s smallest code in terms of numbers.
The group will return to Rarotonga on October 16.

By John Ireland

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