India is using the CWG to insult itself: 8% of the English team have fallen ill

[zagahaga]

good job india show them brits that thell become annerexic and deseased if they talk

 

[Bangalorean]

I could ask you the same about your media inregards to the so called fake "racist" indian student attacks in melbourne.

Uhm - yeah, I'm prepared to wager that the Aussie racism issue was 70% (or more) media hype. But how is this related to what my point was? The reason that many Indians are beginning to make asinine comments about Aussies and Australia, is the extremely biased, prejudiced, and outright slanderous reporting that the Aussie media has indulged in with regard to the CWG. Even the South Africans have hinted that the Aussie media loves to complain and crib, and that they have already had prior experience!

 

[arun]

there are 71 countries, why only aussies, English complain, what a f.u.king whiners.

they really pushing to the limit.

But then, aren't we the ones who are always kissing the 'gora' ***? If we do that, then obviously they expect some kind of special treatment.

I watched the episode with the Ugandan CWG team (including its chief) where 3 of them were seriously injured because of a problem with our security system. How did the security men on the spot treat them? How did our sporting bosses act? You can bet on your life that if it had happened to an English or Australian entourage, things would have been different.

 

[arun]

Australian medico Peter Harcourt dismisses pool theory

THE water quality in the Commonwealth Games pool in Delhi is not the source of an outbreak of stomach sickness, that has affected the two biggest teams in particular – England and Australia – according to the Australian head doctor.

Dr Peter Harcourt said the fact 30 Australian athletes had been affected, including 16 swimmers - two seriously - was still within normal range of anyone travelling to countries like India and those in South-East Asia.

Speculation about the pool water carrying a bug was shot down by Harcourt today.

"There’s been investigations undertaken by the CGF (Commonwealth Ganmes Federation) medical commission and everything has turned up Okay,’’ Harcourt said.

" The way water quality is supervised at this event is by FINA, who know what they’re doing, so I think it was pretty speculative to suggest it was the pool.

"Personally I think the pool being the problem is remote.

"The other big teams who are in the pool haven’t had the same incidence – so how do you explain the water quality being the cause if other big teams haven’t had the same incidence as England and Australia?’’

He said the fact 10 per cent of the Australian team overall has been affected was lower than the usual incidence of between 20 and 60 per cent when tourists are travelling to Asian countries.

"There’s a difference between (swimming) athletes and officials. And I think that’s just the experience of travel – as you travel more you get more immune," Harcourt said.

"I think it’s natural human immunity you’re seeing here. There’s nothing unusual in that."

He also did not think it was a food hygiene problem in the Delhi Athletes Village and probably more personal hygiene, which he had addressed with all team athletes.

"This Village is very good from a food quality perspective – it’s excellent."

Australian medico Peter Harcourt dismisses pool theory | The Australian
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But don't expect the crucification brigade to be stopped by this truth. India is poor, India is backward, India is incompetent.

How dare anyone challenge that notion with facts?

EDIT: This doesn't mean that there shouldn't be genuine criticism. This one sounds genuine:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...blunders-inexperience/articleshow/6711908.cms

 

[Kinetic]

After the FIASCO that is currently going on in our neighborhood, some other names for the said games can be.

1. Condemned Health Games
2. Slumdog Gulli Danda Games
3. Cow Dung Games
4. Sewage Sports Bonanza
5. Rats Olympics

Facts of the matter aside, what amazes me the most is the self-delusional pride that the Indians take in holding such a lousy event!!

Good Job Dot-Heads!! Better put in your bid for the next Olympics because I have heard that the Olympic Committee really needs a good laugh at the next selection event!!

Every one is saying its the best and biggest CWG ever. Including you athletes. International Olympic committee president said that INDIA is hosting Olympic but if you cannot host anything how do we know that what can you do??? But you are still ready to criticize other for that you can't do!!!

India will surely bid for Olympic and will host it. your country will come to play here, again.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

So the trolling competition officially starts....

 

[tiger_ny6]

Thanks. Thanks thanks. Ridiculous. Fake. What i will say......shut up

 

[Kshitiz_The sky]

India proves itself despite prejudices - Caribbean360 India proves itself despite prejudices

Enforced bed rest occasioned by surgery for an inguinal hernia provided me the rare opportunity to watch four continuous days of the BBC’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games in India beginning with the enthralling opening ceremony that featured a colourful portrayal of Indian culture.

Just a few days before the opening, Western media – and especially the media in Australia – cast serious doubt on whether the games would be held at all. Every incident, however minor, was headlined as an indication of catastrophe. The Australian media was quickly followed in this frenzy by sections of the British and Canadian media, often with the question rather than the answer becoming the headline.

Thus, a negative question put to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell, by a BBC interviewer became the story’s headline with no regard for the answer which completely dismissed the question.

“Those who predicted the demise of the games in India even before the event started have been proven wrong”.--Sir Ronald Sanders
Further, after reports that the Athletic Village was uninhabitable and unhygienic, sections of the media again and again asked athletes if they were dissatisfied with conditions. Very positive answers that the conditions were fine and that the athletes were perfectly satisfied did not stop the question from being repeatedly asked.

The Western media were also parsimonious in their acknowledgement of the scale of the spectacle and entertainment success of the opening ceremony. Rather, they seized upon the news that a section of the track and field circuit had been damaged during the ceremony. In their view, this meant the cancellation of the track and field events and a complete waste of the years of training that the athletes had invested. No one ate humble pie when, 15 hours later, the Indian organisers had the track ready for the events to be held, although a few reporters did express astonishment at the Indian accomplishment.

Well what accounts for the attitude of the Western media toward these games in India? Janet Street-Porter, a columnist for the British Independent on Sunday newspaper, reckons that “the stories of doom and gloom in our press and much of the whingeing is just racism under another name”.

Mike Hume, who writes for The Australian, attributed the media attitude (and, if truth be told, the attitude of many others in the West) to the rise of India, alongside China as two super-power economies well on their way to dwarfing many of the countries from which the unfavourable media coverage came. As he put it: “It is against that background that so many appear to have seized upon the chance offered by the problems in Delhi to tut-tut about the natives once more, recycling old prejudices in the new language of health, safety, anti-terrorism and the environment”.

He continued: “There are echoes here of the way many in the West sought to turn China-bashing into a new sport at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They used those Games as a podium to try to take the world's new economic superpower down a peg or two by lecturing the Chinese over pollution, population, human rights and much else. Now the Western cynics have turned their attention to Delhi 2010”.

Hume also points out that: “There seems little doubt that the preparations in Delhi have been marred by a familiar combination of political infighting, incompetence and corruption. This is the sort of thing that tends to accompany the construction of almost all the great white elephants of sporting stadiums.

Even the London 2012 Olympic Games, the facilities for which are now being held up as an example of how to get things done the right way, have magically trebled in price to well over $15bn since before construction began. In a developing nation, these problems are always likely to be more exaggerated and exposed”.

The Western media has also used the opportunity to question whether the Commonwealth Games are worth anything. As many of them have written-off the Commonwealth as a relic of the British Empire, so too have they attempted to rubbish the Commonwealth Games.

Thankfully, their view is not shared in the Commonwealth, not even by the authorities in their own countries. Hence, the 71 countries and territories of the Commonwealth sent teams of varying sizes to the games, and by all accounts – and their own statements – the athletes are enjoying the games. The only unpleasantness occurred in the women’s 100 metre final when a protest by England led to the disqualification of the Australian winner.

Lying in bed, coping with the pain of recent surgery and conscious of my immobility, I developed a deeper respect for the training, sacrifice and hard work of all the athletes who competed in the games – and I knew the Commonwealth Games continue to be very valuable. The games have given these young people an opportunity to showcase their skills and to expand their capacity through competition at world standard. They have all tested themselves and are better for it.

As I write this commentary immobile in bed with my lap top on my chest, Caribbean countries have won 5 medals, one of them silver by 31-year old, Natasha Mayers, from St Vincent and another a brilliant gold by Lerone Clarke of Jamaica in the 100 metres. Trinidad and Tobago also has won two bronze medals. I am sure there will be more for these small Caribbean contingents who are in India because they place value on the experience and knowledge they gain from the Commonwealth Games.

I am greatly looking forward to the closing ceremony of the games which I suspect will be even more spectacular and vibrant than the opening ceremony.

India may have to inquire into the preparations for the games at the end of it, but it has done a great job. Like China, it will continue to grow and to take a place in the world community that helps to balance at least economic power. That reality will not be affected by the kind or prejudice that has been displayed toward India’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sir Ronald Sanders. Sir Ronald Sanders is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat.

 

[Ganga]

If i am not wrong the results of the tests conducted on the water of the pools have arrived and no irregularities have been found.

 

[Bangalorean]

India proves itself despite prejudices - Caribbean360 India proves itself despite prejudices

Enforced bed rest occasioned by surgery for an inguinal hernia provided me the rare opportunity to watch four continuous days of the BBC’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games in India beginning with the enthralling opening ceremony that featured a colourful portrayal of Indian culture.

Just a few days before the opening, Western media – and especially the media in Australia – cast serious doubt on whether the games would be held at all. Every incident, however minor, was headlined as an indication of catastrophe. The Australian media was quickly followed in this frenzy by sections of the British and Canadian media, often with the question rather than the answer becoming the headline.

Thus, a negative question put to the Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell, by a BBC interviewer became the story’s headline with no regard for the answer which completely dismissed the question.

“Those who predicted the demise of the games in India even before the event started have been proven wrong”.--Sir Ronald Sanders
Further, after reports that the Athletic Village was uninhabitable and unhygienic, sections of the media again and again asked athletes if they were dissatisfied with conditions. Very positive answers that the conditions were fine and that the athletes were perfectly satisfied did not stop the question from being repeatedly asked.

The Western media were also parsimonious in their acknowledgement of the scale of the spectacle and entertainment success of the opening ceremony. Rather, they seized upon the news that a section of the track and field circuit had been damaged during the ceremony. In their view, this meant the cancellation of the track and field events and a complete waste of the years of training that the athletes had invested. No one ate humble pie when, 15 hours later, the Indian organisers had the track ready for the events to be held, although a few reporters did express astonishment at the Indian accomplishment.

Well what accounts for the attitude of the Western media toward these games in India? Janet Street-Porter, a columnist for the British Independent on Sunday newspaper, reckons that “the stories of doom and gloom in our press and much of the whingeing is just racism under another name”.

Mike Hume, who writes for The Australian, attributed the media attitude (and, if truth be told, the attitude of many others in the West) to the rise of India, alongside China as two super-power economies well on their way to dwarfing many of the countries from which the unfavourable media coverage came. As he put it: “It is against that background that so many appear to have seized upon the chance offered by the problems in Delhi to tut-tut about the natives once more, recycling old prejudices in the new language of health, safety, anti-terrorism and the environment”.

He continued: “There are echoes here of the way many in the West sought to turn China-bashing into a new sport at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They used those Games as a podium to try to take the world's new economic superpower down a peg or two by lecturing the Chinese over pollution, population, human rights and much else. Now the Western cynics have turned their attention to Delhi 2010”.

Hume also points out that: “There seems little doubt that the preparations in Delhi have been marred by a familiar combination of political infighting, incompetence and corruption. This is the sort of thing that tends to accompany the construction of almost all the great white elephants of sporting stadiums.

Even the London 2012 Olympic Games, the facilities for which are now being held up as an example of how to get things done the right way, have magically trebled in price to well over $15bn since before construction began. In a developing nation, these problems are always likely to be more exaggerated and exposed”.

The Western media has also used the opportunity to question whether the Commonwealth Games are worth anything. As many of them have written-off the Commonwealth as a relic of the British Empire, so too have they attempted to rubbish the Commonwealth Games.

Thankfully, their view is not shared in the Commonwealth, not even by the authorities in their own countries. Hence, the 71 countries and territories of the Commonwealth sent teams of varying sizes to the games, and by all accounts – and their own statements – the athletes are enjoying the games. The only unpleasantness occurred in the women’s 100 metre final when a protest by England led to the disqualification of the Australian winner.

Lying in bed, coping with the pain of recent surgery and conscious of my immobility, I developed a deeper respect for the training, sacrifice and hard work of all the athletes who competed in the games – and I knew the Commonwealth Games continue to be very valuable. The games have given these young people an opportunity to showcase their skills and to expand their capacity through competition at world standard. They have all tested themselves and are better for it.

As I write this commentary immobile in bed with my lap top on my chest, Caribbean countries have won 5 medals, one of them silver by 31-year old, Natasha Mayers, from St Vincent and another a brilliant gold by Lerone Clarke of Jamaica in the 100 metres. Trinidad and Tobago also has won two bronze medals. I am sure there will be more for these small Caribbean contingents who are in India because they place value on the experience and knowledge they gain from the Commonwealth Games.

I am greatly looking forward to the closing ceremony of the games which I suspect will be even more spectacular and vibrant than the opening ceremony.

India may have to inquire into the preparations for the games at the end of it, but it has done a great job. Like China, it will continue to grow and to take a place in the world community that helps to balance at least economic power. That reality will not be affected by the kind or prejudice that has been displayed toward India’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sir Ronald Sanders. Sir Ronald Sanders is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat.

Nice article. Can you also open a new thread with this article?

 

[Kshitiz_The sky]

Nice article. Can you also open a new thread with this article?

being less no. of posts made, m afraid i will b able to open new thread.
Would appricite if someone do the honour...

 

[tiger_ny6]

CWG Village threatened with used condoms!!!!!!!!!!


Until now, the Commonwealth Games organizers have faced criticism for shortcomings in arrangements made at the venues of CWG and Athletes’ village. Now the blame turns to the athletes who complained on quality of arrangements in Athletes’ village for another reason.

Somehow, the Indian authorities could regain the tarnished image with the amazing cultural performance on the inaugural day, but it remains to be seen how they are going to resolve the problem of clogged drains.


Clogged Drains
Now the authorities are facing somewhat a peculiar problem. The village has been provided with at least 8,000 free condoms to prevent unwanted infections. Four thousand condoms are said to be picked up already, within four days of the beginning of the event. The problem is not about scarcity of condoms but with used condoms.

The used condoms are flushed in the toilets into the drains choking the drainage system in the village. The CWG authorities are happy that the condoms are being used, but worried that they are not able to find an easy way to clear the clogged drains.

Accolades
Once the Games began the organizers won applauds for winning race against time in making quick arrangements. The army built the collapsed foot-over bridge within four days. Inaugural session concluded with everyone’s satisfaction. Indian athletes are performing well placing India at the second place in medals tally.

Nearly ten thousand athletes are participating from 71 countries. So far, the athletes are happy with cooking arrangements, as chefs are invited from several countries to make available various types of food items, specific to different countries. Thousands of tonnes of mutton and chicken are being evaporated every day. The Indian organizers should now seek the opinion of the Commonwealth Games Federation President Mike Fennell, who expressed dissatisfaction on the arrangements three days earlier the event began.


*** Industry
As this author informed earlier on these pages, *** industrialists under the garb of escort services are also actively performing in their own event. It appears the Indian authorities have underestimated the potential of providers and takers of *** industry, otherwise of which they would have provided wider drains so the used condoms as to flow freely in the drainage system without choking it.

The number of free condoms provided, also appear less as compared with the usage of condoms in previous international sports events. Free condoms have their own history regarding international level sports and games events.

History of Free Condoms
Free condoms were introduced first during Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. From then on, it became an obvious arrangement just like food and accommodation. The Olympic Games organizers at Sydney in 2000 provided 70,000 condoms, which were quickly used up, forcing them to provide another 20,000.

During 2004 Athens Olympics, 130,000 condoms were provided for athletes. At Beijing Olympics in 2008 and Vancouver Winter Olympics in last February, 100,000 condoms each were provided free. Mr. Suresh Kalmadi should have made a call to Beijing for getting a clue on number of condoms to be provided at CWG-2010.

 

[boxer_B]

After the FIASCO that is currently going on in our neighborhood, some other names for the said games can be.

1. Condemned Health Games
2. Slumdog Gulli Danda Games
3. Cow Dung Games
4. Sewage Sports Bonanza
5. Rats Olympics

Facts of the matter aside, what amazes me the most is the self-delusional pride that the Indians take in holding such a lousy event!!

Good Job Dot-Heads!! Better put in your bid for the next Olympics because I have heard that the Olympic Committee really needs a good laugh at the next selection event!!

Very informative post and i know you will never be banned for all those racist remarks. Nevertheless, its nice to see our success is giving heartache to many !! Sure hope conducting Olympics don't give a heart attack.

 

[Kinetic]

Very informative post and i know you will never be banned for all those racist remarks. Nevertheless, its nice to see our success is giving heartache to many !! Sure hope conducting Olympics don't give a heart attack.

Dude, he can't say anything better than this. Insulting anyone is very easy and competing is difficult.

 

[Ingis]

Now the Australians are blaming Malaysia for their upset stomachs --

http://www.smh.com.au/commonwealth-...p-blamed-for-swimmers-bug-20101008-16bj1.html