Shaw won England's first gold in Manchester in 2002

Lorraine Shaw, the 2002 Commonwealth hammer winner, thinks facilities in Delhi will be ready for the 2010 Games.

Shaw coaches the current British number one Zoe Derham and will also look after a group of English throwers in Delhi.

"The team and the head of the England Commonwealth Games wouldn't send us if they didn't think it was acceptable," Shaw told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

"Athletics are going to Doha first, so it gives an extra week or so for the accommodation to get up to standard."

Shaw, 42, has twice previously been on trips to India, including the Youth Olympic Games in 2008, and is not concerned about the last-minute nature of preparation work.

Instead she is more focussed on her protégé Derham who goes to Delhi with a chance of a medal and of breaking her coach's UK record of 68.93 metres, set in 2003.

Derham's best is just 30 centimetres short of that mark and Shaw revealed the 19-year-old is trying to ignore all the negative coverage surrounding Delhi:

"Zoe's choosing not listen to the radio or read the papers," Shaw said.

"The next Commonwealth Games is four years time and this is the last multi-sports games where they can interact with people and have a feel for what the Olympics is going to be like before we go in to our own Olympics."

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