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Games Village 'unfit for humans': Scottish team
AFP, Sep 21, 2010, 03.51pm IST
LONDON: Scottish team officials joined the chorus of condemnation surrounding accommodation for athletes in Delhi on Tuesday, decrying the Commonwealth Games village as "unsafe and unfit for human habitation."
Team Scotland were reallocated accommodation after lodging a complaint with Games organisers last week but have revealed that even their new quarters required "serious cleaning" -- which they ended up performing themselves.
Although the Scots said in a statement they were still planning to participate in Delhi, officials warned they "will not compromise on issues of health, safety and security."
"The athletes' village is not only at the heart of any Commonwealth Games, but is fundamental to the staging of the event," the statement read.
"However on arrival in Delhi on Thursday last week, Team Scotland officials found that building works had fallen seriously behind schedule and that its allocated accommodation blocks were far from finished and in their view, unsafe and unfit for human habitation."
After being allocated new quarters, Scottish team officials themselves took charge of bringing the facilities up to required standards, the statement revealed.
"After representation to the organising committee (OC), Scotland was reallocated finished accommodation, but which still required serious cleaning and maintenance to bring it up to the necessary Games ready standards.
"This has now been largely addressed by the Scotland team management, cleaning the seven-story tower block from top to bottom themselves with assistance from Delhi Games volunteers," it read.
Officials noted however that several other blocks in the village remained "in a highly unsatisfactory state."
Up to 7,000 athletes and officials are expected in New Delhi for the October 3-14 multi-sport event which brings together countries and territories of the former British empire.
Read more: Games Village 'unfit for humans': Scottish team - The Times of India Games Village 'unfit for humans': Scottish team - The Times of India
AFP, Sep 21, 2010, 03.51pm IST
LONDON: Scottish team officials joined the chorus of condemnation surrounding accommodation for athletes in Delhi on Tuesday, decrying the Commonwealth Games village as "unsafe and unfit for human habitation."
Team Scotland were reallocated accommodation after lodging a complaint with Games organisers last week but have revealed that even their new quarters required "serious cleaning" -- which they ended up performing themselves.
Although the Scots said in a statement they were still planning to participate in Delhi, officials warned they "will not compromise on issues of health, safety and security."
"The athletes' village is not only at the heart of any Commonwealth Games, but is fundamental to the staging of the event," the statement read.
"However on arrival in Delhi on Thursday last week, Team Scotland officials found that building works had fallen seriously behind schedule and that its allocated accommodation blocks were far from finished and in their view, unsafe and unfit for human habitation."
After being allocated new quarters, Scottish team officials themselves took charge of bringing the facilities up to required standards, the statement revealed.
"After representation to the organising committee (OC), Scotland was reallocated finished accommodation, but which still required serious cleaning and maintenance to bring it up to the necessary Games ready standards.
"This has now been largely addressed by the Scotland team management, cleaning the seven-story tower block from top to bottom themselves with assistance from Delhi Games volunteers," it read.
Officials noted however that several other blocks in the village remained "in a highly unsatisfactory state."
Up to 7,000 athletes and officials are expected in New Delhi for the October 3-14 multi-sport event which brings together countries and territories of the former British empire.
Read more: Games Village 'unfit for humans': Scottish team - The Times of India Games Village 'unfit for humans': Scottish team - The Times of India