Falklands marksman Graham Didlick achieved a personal best of 530 in the Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol - Singles at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. This bettered his previous best of 509 by 21 points. Graham finished in 23rd position, just 3 points behind Ian Harris of Wales.
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos has announced that he would not travel to Bolivia to attend presidential inauguration ceremonies because of a simmering internal conflict there over the Bolivian government's tentative plans to export natural gas to North America via Chile