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Queen begins Commonwealth relay

Queen begins Commonwealth relay

The Queen has launched the countdown to the Commonwealth Games in India next year.The Queen placed a message inside a baton at Buckingham Palace which will travel all the way to Delhi for the opening ceremony on 3 October 2010.India's President Pratibha Patil received the baton before passing it on to India's first individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra and Lord Coe.

BBC | October 29, 2009Watch more videos from BBC

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