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The Glasgow Games chief has said facilities for the event will be in place two years before the event gets under way. One of the key facets of Glasgow's bid for the Games was the fact that so many venues -- Hampden, Ibrox and Celtic Park -- were already built, and that others only needed renovation, which could be done with some time to spare. Glasgow organisers are using the slogan "We're ready - are you" to indicate their confidence that the completion of new stadiums and the renovation of others will be made well within the required time frame. Chief executive John Scott said: "I am extremely confident that Glasgow is going to put on an outstanding Games. We are a different environment (from Delhi). This (Scotland] is a country that has had experience of sport for a long time." "It's a country that had a lot of its venues already in place, therefore has had some experience of staging this kind of event," The Scotsman quoted him, as saying. "We didn't have the scale of infrastructure and ambition that Delhi had - Delhi not only has built all these new sports venues, it has put in a metro system and an incredible new road system. Good for them. They wanted to move this city and this country forward. "We are also having some legacy impact (on Glasgow]. There's the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome, the national indoor sports arena, the entertainment arena. We are very fortunate that we are well on track. All of them will be complete - all of the capital projects will be complete by 2012," he said.

Glasgow to be ready with facilities two years before 2014 Commonwealth Games