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The Commonwealth Games Federation has said that Delhi is succeeding in fixing the problems that have surfaced just 10 days before the opening ceremony. "There has been progress and there is more to do," Mike Hooper, chief executive of the Games federation, told AFP. "There has been a "significant additional resource deployment. We're concentrating on fixing the problems. My attitude is that the Games are on. We are working at the highest levels of government," he said shortly before the president of the federation was due to arrive in the Indian capital. A source in the federation said the mood now was more upbeat and that the risk of cancellation was now small. "Things are looking much better," Team Scotland 's representative Jon Doig said in Delhi . A senior member of the organising committee issued a fulsome apology Thursday for the "collective failure" to get the Games in order. "I genuinely feel sorry for whatever has happened and would like to apologise not only on the part of the OC but everybody else who is committed," committee treasurer A.K. Mattoo told the NDTV news channel.

Commonwealth Games Federation says Delhi succeeding in fixing CWG problems