Cancel Commonwealth Games, says legend Fraser

DAWN Fraser has become the highest profile name to call for next year's Commonwealth Games to be cancelled or moved.

RACE AGAINST TIME: Workers at the Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium, which will host archery, cycling, gymnastics and wrestling at next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi (Getty Images)

The Australian swimmer, a four-time Olympic and six-times Commonwealth champion, claims she fears ‘another Munich' - where 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer were killed in sport's most infamous terrorist attack - should Delhi host the event next year.

Her comments follow an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team coach - which left eight security men dead and eight players injured - during their tour of Pakistan.

"We don't want another Munich,'' she said.

"With an attack like that you wouldn't be sending any team over to that region at all.

"You wouldn't be sending away in this climate.''

The organisation of next year's Games has already been questioned, with one leading Indian newspaper claiming the city was woefully underprepared to host the event.

And this week, the influential Times of India newspaper published a leader column entitled Running out of time, which claimed 258 building projects relating to the Games are now running behind schedule.

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It has been suggested that Melbourne, which staged a successful Commonwealth Games in 2006, might be willing to host the event again at short notice.

However, senior officials at the Australian Commonwealth Games Association have dismissed such talk as 'laughable'.

In addition, the Commonwealth Games Federation have all rejected all calls for the Games, most recently after last November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.