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===Venues=== {{Main|Venues of the 2010 Commonwealth Games}} [[File:Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium CWG opening ceremony.jpg|thumb|alt=Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi|The main venue of the Games, the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium]]]] [[File:IndianHockeyGameSnapshot.jpg|thumb|[[Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium]]]] Events took place at 12 competition venues. A total of 20 training venues were used in the Games. Of these 20, one was used for archery; three for aquatics; two for lawn bowls; two for netball; eight for rugby sevens, including seven venues within [[Delhi University]]; two for shooting; one for squash; two for table tennis; one for weightlifting, three for wrestling and two for tennis.<ref name="Non-Competition Venues">{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgdelhi2010.org/non_competition_venues|title=Non-Competition Venues|publisher=Commonwealth Games Organising Committee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927033237/http://www.cwgdelhi2010.org/non_competition_venues|archive-date=27 September 2010|url-status=usurped|access-date=1 October 2010}}</ref> A total of five venues were newly constructed for the event; the [[Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range]], the [[Siri Fort Sports Complex]], the [[Thyagaraj Sports Complex]], the [[Yamuna Sports Complex]] as well as a [[rugby sevens]] facility in [[Delhi University Stadium]]. This does not include the two venues—the [[Indira Gandhi Arena|Indira Gandhi Sports Complex]] and [[Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium]]—that received major renovations or an uplift. All other venues had existed prior to the event. The largest venue was the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, with a capacity of 60,000, was the main venue of the event, hosting both [[2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony|the opening]] and the [[2010 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony|closing ceremonies]]. On the other hand, the [[Central Reserve Police Force]] (CRPF) Shooting Range located in Kadarpur had the smallest seating capacity, at 345. There were three main non-competition venues in the event, besides the Commonwealth Games Village; namely the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Headquarters, the Main Media Centre, and the Games Family Hotel, Hotel Ashok.
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