Uniform fiasco for volunteers not a fitting look

GOLD Coast Commonwealth Games volunteers have been given the wrong-sized uniforms in a last-minute bungle that has left officials red-faced.

Small-statured Games volunteers say they were given large uniforms and reportedly told to pay to have them tailored. One petite volunteer, who was given an oversized uniform, said she was told organisers had run out of small uniforms and she would have to make do with a large.

She said almost half of the 15,000 volunteers could be affected, just two weeks before the Games. And Games committee chairman Peter Beattie admitted there had been confusion over uniform specifications for the volunteers, known as “Games shapers”.

“We’ve had to do some adjustments and frankly at the end of it we’ll resolve all that, there won’t be a problem,” he said. Mr Beattie said he did not believe volunteers had been asked to pay for their uniforms to be altered.

The uniform bungle is only the latest for Games organisers, after the issuing of tickets with incorrect dates.