THE 18th Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne today with organisers anxiously hoping weeks of negative publicity and embarrassing blunders will be washed away once the competition gets under way.
A decade of meticulous planning and more than A$1.1bil (US$827mil) has been spent preparing Australia’s second-largest city for the 12-day event, only for the final countdown to be overshadowed by scandal.
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