The India Commonwealth Games Fiasco.

marklv

Malcolm. wrote: »

China made a good job of the Olympic games.

It's best not to make sweeping generalisations.

China is an authoritarian state where the death penalty exists and is commonly used.

PasturesNew

I loved the way they openly said "Westerners have different standards of hygiene" ..... kind of shot themselves in the foot there I'd say... nobody wants to say "Yeah, but we're a bunch of smelly sods who don't ever wash ... and we don't care either", but that's exactly what they said.

olly300

PasturesNew wrote: »

I loved the way they openly said "Westerners have different standards of hygiene" ..... kind of shot themselves in the foot there I'd say... nobody wants to say "Yeah, but we're a bunch of smelly sods who don't ever wash ... and we don't care either", but that's exactly what they said.

Well they couldn't have actually said - Westerners expect fully functioning bathrooms with running water there as we clean ourselves anywhere.

Which according to my friends who have gone to India is true.

Degenerate

marklv wrote: »

China is an authoritarian state where the death penalty exists and is commonly used.

Yep, fear of being killed is quite a motivator. If Chinese citizens had humiliated their government like this, I'm sure that they would have been convicted of one of the many non-violent offenses that attract capital punishment over there, and the execution bus would already have been round.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I loved the way they openly said "Westerners have different standards of hygiene" ..... kind of shot themselves in the foot there I'd say... nobody wants to say "Yeah, but we're a bunch of smelly sods who don't ever wash ... and we don't care either", but that's exactly what they said.

Especially funny because hygeine standards had nothing to do with it. The "unsanitary" bathroom facilities were just crudded up by messy plasterers, exactly what you might find on a typical British building site before the final site clean. The basic problem is that it's not finished.

marklv

Degenerate wrote: »

The basic problem is that it's not finished.

Id est bad project management. No wonder Indians make good programmers but poor managers.

movilogo

Many decades to go before such a vision has any chance of materialising.

It will happen faster than expected - because while developing countries are improving, (once Great) Britain is now failing almost everywhere....

Come 2012 and we'll see even more circus at London Olympic

wymondham

Whilst I agree the conditions did look quite bad, the way the atheletes came across made me think they definately thought themselves above others and very precious! They are just playing games!

Bangerchick

They may be just playing games, but if they get a serious illness some could lose hundreds of thousands of £££ earnings from the rest of the season. No wonder they seem a bit precious!

roosterpotatoes

marklv wrote: »

Honestly. Hosting such an event in India, of all places! They must have known this was going to happen, surely. The Indians thought they could do this on the cheap and it backfired. It's all about money.

I completely agree with you on this one. I thought they found out in 2003 that they would be hosting this :mad:
I think its completely unacceptable that they seem to of left it to the last minute and that bridges are falling down
I really fear for our athletes welfare here and if i was the GB leader i would of pulled out for safety reasons!

olly300

roosterpotatoes wrote: »

I really fear for our athletes welfare here and if i was the GB leader i would of pulled out for safety reasons!

You do know in the Commonwealth Games that the UK and NI are split into their respective countries?

Anyway for political reasons the Scotland, England, Wales and NI teams have to go. They will have to stay in hotels if the conditions are really bad.