Commonwealth Games-New Delhi 2010

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 06 Oct 2010 20:03

some very fast times coming up in the 100m, despite the heat
the track seems to be doing well
most athletes coming off are not bothered about the last minute work... more media nonsense!

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 06 Oct 2010 20:06

haresh, at this point eng is behind us. 11 golds to 6.

how old is qureshi ?
he seems good material depending on scope for improvement.

Sriman · Post by **Sriman** » 06 Oct 2010 20:11

Any website which updates the medal tally regularly? The official site is useless.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 06 Oct 2010 20:20

Medal tally update from SMH CWG site, which seems to update faster:
1. Australia 18 14 9 41
2. India 11 8 4 23
3. England 6 11 8 25
4. Malaysia 3 2 4 9
4. South Africa 3 2 4 9

Another customary Aussie salute to the games officials:
Australia "forced" to "defend" second act of "poor sportsmanship" (no kidding!)

They are Australia's birds of affray. Track cyclist Shane Perkins last night became the second Australian athlete in as many days to flip the finger at Commonwealth Games officials, joining disgruntled wrestler Hassene Fkiri.

Perkins will be disciplined by Cycling Australia for an angry two-fingered salute at officials, who cited him for dangerous riding in the semi final of the keirin and disqualified him from the gold medal ride-off.
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''We are disappointed with what Shane did, and the gesture, and we don't believe it's acceptable,'' sprint coach Gary West said. ''We have put steps in place to deal with that in-house as well.

Perkins, 23, lost his Australian Institute of Sport scholarship some years ago for drunken behaviour but has recently been celebrated as a reformed man. Perkins has credited his wife and child for providing balance in his life, and his form at home and abroad has soared.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 06 Oct 2010 20:48

In the spirit of the times, India should sponsor US into the next CWG when Ombab comes to town!

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 06 Oct 2010 20:50

afterall, it is a former colony...

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 06 Oct 2010 20:55

Perkins, 23, lost his Australian Institute of Sport scholarship some years ago for drunken behaviour but has recently been celebrated as a reformed man. Perkins has credited his wife and child for providing balance in his life, and his form at home and abroad has soared.

See told ya, Aussies cannot take the stress with the poor Indian conditions. They are being forced to participate under difficult conditions.

disha · Post by **disha** » 06 Oct 2010 20:56

Philip wrote:No,I've posted info from our local TV channels too on the CWG fiasco!

Sirjee, first of all, all venues need maintenance over night. Yep, I have worked at such venues and there are army of people with tasked assigned to fix things and make it ready for the next day. Second JLN stadium hosted a huge openeing ceremony and that does cause considerable damage. That needs to be fixed. Also for a stadium that size there will be issues with sinking fields etc. So let the organizers do their job., they are competent.

Now coming to media, the desi media is one of the dumbest I have ever seen. First of all they do not understand how things work and go rah-rah to get some additional TRPs and also do not understand how it hands out beating points to others. Some of the rona-dhona by media helped, but rest of the rona-dhona was useless and counter-productive.

Third, the furrin media from Oz and NZ (see the guy talking about Dixitji in derogatory terms!) are always looking for ways to make themselves feel better. Population of Delhi is more than the population of Oz or Nz., the Nz reporter does not have the worth to even lick Sheilaji's shoes. The SMH carries an article where the reporters from Herald examined the track and from one athlete the track condition "has only to be imagined". Looks like we need to fire all games officials and their certifying bodies and all the FILA jurists and hire this gora reporters.

While we are at it., let us talk about the excellent sportsmanship shown by Australians. Bunch of racist ba$tard$ I say. (I have met and know individual aussies who are very good, but as a society it is a failure).

Let

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 06 Oct 2010 20:58

With all the olympic size pools in the new residential neighbourhoods of IT-Vty India, maybe we can look forward to more medals in the Aquatic events in the next 10 years or so. It is a shame that even states like Kerala/Goa with large natural water bodies have not produced champion swimmers in large quantities.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 06 Oct 2010 20:59

the aussie culture is fiercely competitive, crowing and abusive victors and very poor losers lacking grace or humility... very few exceptions

on the stadium, steve cram (former olympic running champion) has been saying on al-beeb - its time to give credit to the JLN groundstaff for turning things around so fast after the opening ceremony, the track is not picture perfect but is perfectly fine for competing on, time to move on and get on with the games. other al-beeb commentators are echoing this line, stop complaining and get on with the games

disha · Post by **disha** » 06 Oct 2010 21:00

Bade wrote:
Perkins, 23, lost his Australian Institute of Sport scholarship some years ago for drunken behaviour...
See told ya, Aussies cannot take the stress with the poor Indian conditions. They are being forced to participate under difficult conditions.

Boor Aussie. Give him some warm toddy blease!

rahuls · Post by **rahuls** » 06 Oct 2010 21:46

disha wrote: Sirjee, first of all, all venues need maintenance over night. Yep, I have worked at such venues and there are army of people with tasked assigned to fix things and make it ready for the next day. Second JLN stadium hosted a huge openeing ceremony and that does cause considerable damage. That needs to be fixed. Also for a stadium that size there will be issues with sinking fields etc. So let the organizers do their job., they are competent.

Exactly. I don't understand all the rhona-dhona. The games officials know exactly what they are doing. I have seen a video on NDTV which showed the JLN stadium and how ppl were working for the opening ceremony. The games official showed some covering (square tiles kind with rollers and fixers below) done on the track which could take a load of IIRC 5 tons. He said that they can't use the same type of covering on the grass because it would spoil the grass and that is the reason why they did not lay grass in the first place. He also said that they have 60 hours of work to do after opening ceremony to make the stadium ready including laying grass.

The problem is not last minute prep (atleast with regard to JLN), but poor media management and lack of PR, almost none existing. The al-beebs etc. are ready to pounce on any opportunities to pick but they have to be rebuffed by prompt information from the officials to the media.

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 06 Oct 2010 21:57

PR and greater transparency to the media with daily updates on works etc perhaps would have helped in better reports being made. But I suspect, even if the PR machine from India was full steam, there would be articles looking at the drains. There is a subtle racism in the reports from the western media, and it cannot be completely shut-off as it is in their nature.

The DDMs should get wise enough to realize this and have counter articles citing foreign media. Only then would the likes of BBC shut their traps. But the DDMs choose to fall for the furrin media outlets instead. Hence, little hope of changing what is presented even if OC were sourced to private bodies. Did we not see the same with IPL reporting ?

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 06 Oct 2010 22:08

Sriman wrote:Any website which updates the medal tally regularly? The official site is useless.

http://cwg.ndtv.com/commonwealth/medaltally.html

very quick and has an India specific section as well. click the ticker if you want the details.

p.s. are our olympians resting for CWG ? I thought sushil kumar was in 66kg category ? yet it was sunil kumar who fought in it. or has his weight gone up ?
is vijender and akhil kumar playing ?

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 06 Oct 2010 22:15

sum wrote:
Indian wrestler Rajender registered straight win in two sets over his opponent and assured at least a silver by making to the finals in the the 55-kg category. Manoj Kumar also entered the finals without even facing challenges from his opponent, as the Pakistani grappler didn't turn up for the fight. The two wrestlers have ensured at least two silver medals in wrestling, but they would definitely go in for a kill for the ultimate glory- Gold!

Two other Indian greco roman wrestlers have lost their bouts
Wonder where the Paki vanished? Hope he was not a IT export!!!

The paki wrestlers were involved in a fracas with the paki contingent leader who snatched he flag from one of them who was designated flag bearer. They had threatened to boycott the games.

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/10/04/pak- ... r-row.html

During the Commonwealth Games' opening ceremony on Oct 3, a top sports official snatched Pakistan's national flag from a sportsperson, who was designated as the flag-bearer.

Sheikh Rashid, the coach of the weightlifting team informed that Malik, a gold medalist at the last Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, supposed to carry the flag and lead the Pakistani contingent.

At the last moment, the leader of the contingent, Muhammad Ali Shah announced that he would carry the flag.

Rashid said members of the weightlifting team took the incident as an insult and insisted that the flag should had been carried by Malik as it was announced earlier.

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 06 Oct 2010 22:36

Why the poor showing by Kiwis so far, they were visible participants from the snippets seen on TV, not to mention equally whiny as the Aussies before the games.
Kiwis: 0-5-2-7

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 06 Oct 2010 22:40

gah, chetak ji peddling stale news.

Fidel Guevara · Post by **Fidel Guevara** » 06 Oct 2010 23:03

Murugan wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_m ... alth_Games

and at melbourne 2006
India 22 17 11 = 50

and in 2002
Gold Silver Bronze Total
India 30 22 17 = 69

Though Australia is usually thought the top-dog in medals tally, it is surprisingly the UK which has the most - the medals tally is split by England, Scotland, Wales & N Ireland.

If we combine all 4, the UK is way more than the Aussies (UK g/s/b/total 725/741/850/2316, Oz g/s/b/total 643/556/509/1708).

Similar to the UK, if we split Canada into Quebec & Canada (which a lot of Quebecois want), Canada's total tally drops to almost half. (BTW, anybody else on BR living in Canada?)

James B · Post by **James B** » 06 Oct 2010 23:08

I think today there was more attendance than previous days.

Its time for CWG OC to give free passes and transport to the Delhi school students, it will serve as an inspiration to them to join these sports as a career.

MurthyB · Post by **MurthyB** » 06 Oct 2010 23:47

sum wrote:Scary stuff:
OUCH!
Seth Degbe Fetrie of Ghana is pinned under the bar during an unsuccessful attempt in the men's 69kg weightlifting competition. (Reuters)

Uh-oh. Tommorrow's headline:

Substandard weight malfunctions and pins CWG lifter

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 06 Oct 2010 23:49

chetak wrote: The paki wrestlers were involved in a fracas with the paki contingent leader who snatched he flag from one of them who was designated flag bearer. They had threatened to boycott the games.

Just before the opening ceremony, we should have let the pakis loose amongst the ozies. The infamous Ozzy "rioting" inside that JN Stadium's Entry Kave Kamplex would have gotten more enthalpy, what with the harami pakis doing a Gillani on the Ozies in the dark, crowded area

400% sure to happen: this old goat of a paki minister would grab at the pecs of some ozzy Merv Hughes weightlifter, complimenting in pinglish on its "berkiness". Total justice would be served all round.

When the gates open for letting these animals into the opening ceremony parade, we will see the flag bearing paki with a nice shiner and some missing teeth. As for Ozzies, would not make any difference in their whining. They would anyway at the same pitch

A serious opportunity to extract humour out of pakis and neo-pakis was lost. Kalmadi messed up again

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 06 Oct 2010 23:53

MurthyB wrote:
Substandard weight malfunctions and pins CWG lifter

Most probably nothing will happen, as this an African brother who knows what it is to compete against great domestic odds. They will never be the boorish guests that these barely rich goras are turning out to be.

Haresh · Post by **Haresh** » 07 Oct 2010 00:20

I don't mean to spoil the mood, but what is happening with this guy and his other colleagues ??
Who is looking after them??
What is BR going to do to help them??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... doned.html

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 07 Oct 2010 01:32

Lalit Bhanot, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee spokesman, said it had not offered any assistance because it was a matter for the building contractor. “We have been so busy conducting the event and this is just one unfortunate thing,” he said.

This Bhanot oiseaule seems to have been born with the foot in his mouth.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 07 Oct 2010 01:43

I was about to post the same affliction.

Pulikeshi · Post by **Pulikeshi** » 07 Oct 2010 01:43

Princess Diana???

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 07 Oct 2010 01:49

And think about Camilla being there!

Maybe Kalmadi thought she was Diana?

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 07 Oct 2010 01:52

Nonstory from western dork media. Is it a great crime to be clueless about who Charlie boy's squeeze is.

Sriman · Post by **Sriman** » 07 Oct 2010 02:12

Pulikeshi · Post by **Pulikeshi** » 07 Oct 2010 02:18

Suraj,

It is a non story, but two points:

1. Kalmandi should quit drinking Kallu - the man is missing some grey matter

2. It is good that Charlie is getting a taste of his own medicine -
President's butler will not serve him and his squeeze and now he is reminded of Diana!

Overall good tamasha onlee!

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 07 Oct 2010 04:04

Ticket ploy leaves seats vacant

The mystery of the empty seats at the “sold out” Commonwealth Games opening ceremony has been solved: the Suresh Kalmadi-led organising committee was sitting on hundreds of tickets till the last minute, sources said.

The tickets, which the organisers had hoped to distribute as favours, eventually went to office boys, peons and attendants working at the committee headquarters, the sources added. Some were priced at Rs 50,000 each.
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Fennell and Dikshit are upset at the way the organising committee has handled the sale of tickets, sources in the committee and the government said.
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At a news conference today, Kalmadi was at a loss for words when questioned about the mismanagement.

But Fennell, sitting by his side, interjected: “We have discussed the issue with the organising committee, we have raised the question on how to get people packed at the stadium. Only the organising committee and Mr Kalmadi can answer all these questions ... we have put this on the agenda for further discussion.”
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Ticket counters have been opened outside the Games venues only after Fennell’s intervention. So far, tickets were being sold only at Central Bank of India branches, retail outlets of an automobile manufacturer and a fast food chain.

“The people at the bank behave as if they are doing us a favour. Why couldn’t they have kept these tickets at Mother Dairy booths? One has to wait for up to 30 minutes to buy tickets and then they want to see your identity proof,” said Varun Bhambri, a software professional.

Even after being hauled over the coals in the run up leading to CWG opening, I am surprised Kalmadi was trying to misuse the tickets too, to be used as favors! Does the man have no shame?

saip · Post by **saip** » 07 Oct 2010 05:57

Suraj wrote:Nonstory from western dork media. Is it a great crime to be clueless about who Charlie boy's squeeze is.

This may be a non issue, but I read somewhre he referred to President Kalam as Abdul Kalam Azad and if that is true, that is totally inexcusable.

http://thenews.com.pk/06-10-2010/Aman-Ki-Asha/8437.htm

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 07 Oct 2010 06:08

saip wrote: This may be a non issue, but I read somewhre he referred to President Kalam as Abdul Kalam Azad and if that is true, that is totally inexcusable.

Why read? See the video clip posted on this thread onlee (the post which had the youtube clips showing the entire opening ceremony).

Kanishka · Post by **Kanishka** » 07 Oct 2010 06:09

putnanja wrote:Ticket ploy leaves seats vacant

The mystery of the empty seats at the “sold out” Commonwealth Games opening ceremony has been solved: the Suresh Kalmadi-led organising committee was sitting on hundreds of tickets till the last minute, sources said.

The tickets, which the organisers had hoped to distribute as favours, eventually went to office boys, peons and attendants working at the committee headquarters, the sources added. Some were priced at Rs 50,000 each.
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Fennell and Dikshit are upset at the way the organising committee has handled the sale of tickets, sources in the committee and the government said.
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At a news conference today, Kalmadi was at a loss for words when questioned about the mismanagement.

But Fennell, sitting by his side, interjected: “We have discussed the issue with the organising committee, we have raised the question on how to get people packed at the stadium. Only the organising committee and Mr Kalmadi can answer all these questions ... we have put this on the agenda for further discussion.”
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Ticket counters have been opened outside the Games venues only after Fennell’s intervention. So far, tickets were being sold only at Central Bank of India branches, retail outlets of an automobile manufacturer and a fast food chain.

“The people at the bank behave as if they are doing us a favour. Why couldn’t they have kept these tickets at Mother Dairy booths? One has to wait for up to 30 minutes to buy tickets and then they want to see your identity proof,” said Varun Bhambri, a software professional.
Even after being hauled over the coals in the run up leading to CWG opening, I am surprised Kalmadi was trying to misuse the tickets too, to be used as favors! Does the man have no shame?

Simple answer: No! But he does have all the qualities of a clown to compensate.

Ashley Kravitz · Post by **Ashley Kravitz** » 07 Oct 2010 08:22

*Sigh*
Barrier mishap at Village injures 3 foreigners

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cwga ... 703055.cms

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 07 Oct 2010 08:53

Stop Sighing and stop reading the gutter press of Australia, UK and India (except The Hindu).

This is one of the all time best CWG, ever. Again, I am not referring to the financial aspects (corruption) etc.

sum · Post by **sum** » 07 Oct 2010 08:56

Just before the opening ceremony, we should have let the pakis loose amongst the ozies. The infamous Ozzy "rioting" inside that JN Stadium's Entry Kave Kamplex would have gotten more enthalpy, what with the harami pakis doing a Gillani on the Ozies in the dark, crowded area 400% sure to happen: this old goat of a paki minister would grab at the pecs of some ozzy Merv Hughes weightlifter, complimenting in pinglish on its "berkiness". Total justice would be served all round.

When the gates open for letting these animals into the opening ceremony parade, we will see the flag bearing paki with a nice shiner and some missing teeth. As for Ozzies, would not make any difference in their whining. They would anyway at the same pitch

Gaurav_S · Post by **Gaurav_S** » 07 Oct 2010 09:18

New Zealand TV host suspended for mispronouncing Delhi's CM name as 'Dick-shit'

Varoon Shekhar · Post by **Varoon Shekhar** » 07 Oct 2010 09:30

"Stop Sighing and stop reading the gutter press of Australia, UK and India (except The Hindu)."

At this instant, I am watching the games on Canada's CBC live. Pretty good. The 'sigh' was for that awful mishap or stupid blunder, whatever you call it. It was embarrassing and harrowing.

Murugan · Post by **Murugan** » 07 Oct 2010 10:12

Suresh Kalmadi is not liked by Cricket Minister. Media is with Cricket Ministr of India.
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The poor turnout earlier was also becoz of cricket match at mohali. had it been diwali vacation time, more people would have turned out to watch different matches and events.
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most of the big events are hardly half day events and dilli billies would not like to take a full day leave to watch such non-cricket matches.
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the true numbers of sports interested spectator will be on weekends
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