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Wales Chef de Mission Chris Jenkins on Saturday expressed his satisfaction with the fantastic timing of getting the Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Village ready to welcome the international athletes. Stating his observation of the state of affairs at the Commmonwealth Games Village, Jenkins said, "I am really quite impressed with the transition. I had come here two weeks ago and thing were really quite chaotic. But the athletes who came here three days ago are absolutely delighted with the residential wings and also the training facilities. The food is also quite good." "The venues are outstanding and we are really looking forward to competing there," he added. The team is hoping to double its Gold medal count at Delhi 2010. According to team manager Brian Davies, Wales would look to at least double its haul of three gold medals won at the previous Games at Melbourne. Wales has come in with about 150 athletes. They will participate in archery, badminton, lawn bowls, wrestling, women's hockey, shooting and table tennis. Wales first took part in the Commonwealth Games (then the British Empire Games) in the inaugural 1930 edition and has since taken part in all of them. Their best showing came in the Auckland Games in 1990 where they finished with a haul of 25 medals including 10 gold. In Melbourne, Wales bagged 19 medals but only three of them gold. One of those hoping to add to this tally is David Phelps, Melbourne CWG gold medallist. According to him, representing Wales in the Commonwealth Games was always preferable to representing Britain since the Commonwealth Games is the only competition where Wales represents itself as a country. Team Wales, therefore, never contemplated a pull out or even a readjusting of travel plans. Asked about the top medal prospects, Davies, Wales, apart from defending champions Michaela Breeze (women's weightlifting), long distance swimming great David Davies who will compete in 400m and 1500m freestyle and Phelps, also picked rising 21-year-old discus star Bratt Morse and athlete Christian Malcolm (men's 200m) as probable contenders.

Wales delighted to notice impressive transition at C'wealth Games Village