Games-From mutineers to Premiers, lawn bowls Davids take on Games Goliaths


ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA, England (Reuters) - In sport nearly everyone loves a good David and Goliath story and the place to be for such a battle at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games is the lawn bowls competition.

At one end of Victoria Park's impeccably manicured bowling greens, rated among the best in Britain, the Falkland Islands, whose 3,000 inhabitants could fit into one of the venue's temporary stands, beat India, with a population of 1.3 billion.

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