51.   These Games mark the first major international competition in which disabled athletes will compete as full members of their national teams.

52.   Tunstall caused a storm at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, last year over remarks about disabled athletes.

53.   Tunstall later apologised, but maintained disabled athletes should have games of their own.

54.   Tunstall apologised on Wednesday afternoon, but stuck to his position that disabled athletes would be better served by their own version of the Games.

55.   Wiggins said he had expected to see more disabled athletes here, but he doubted an event of this size could ever be completely integrated.

56.   Victoria organisers have spearheaded the movement to integrate disabled athletes into the Games.