Commonwealth Games-New Delhi 2010

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 15 Oct 2010 14:16

So can we now start the Audit process and throw all corrupt entities behind bar forever as MMS ji promised ?

sampat · Post by **sampat** » 15 Oct 2010 14:22

Bharat Bala should release a DVD of this event. More money making opportunity for Kalmadi and company. At least, all the speeches will be easily skipped.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 15 Oct 2010 17:03

what happened to the reflector mirrors on the underbelly of the aero stat, the helium balloon, it looked fantastic in the opening ceremony.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 15 Oct 2010 17:25

Matt Pinsent's closing blog on hope for India to be an emerging sporting power

nice, reflects some BRF thinking too

the other two articles on the bbc today are also good

Fordyce

Farquhar

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Oct 2010 18:38

seems chinese hackers targeted the cwg website, rfid tag system and ticketing system within 2 hrs of the opening ceremony. usual H&D reasons.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 15 Oct 2010 18:39

Any link to the closing ceremony in which a Scottish team actually comes in with bag pipes and the jigs?

uddu · Post by **uddu** » 15 Oct 2010 18:42

To all Mullahs who has not watched the closing ceremony, here it is
part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 4 seems to be missing.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 15 Oct 2010 19:02

VikasRaina wrote:So can we now start the Audit process and throw all corrupt entities behind bar forever as MMS ji promised ?

If We are able to get few more medals here as well it would be worth it.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 754600.cms

NEW DELHI: A day after the Commonwealth Games got over, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has resumed its assessment of various projects related to the mega sporting event which were mired in allegations of corruption.

The CAG today sent its inspection officials to the CPWD office located inside S P Mukherjee Stadium to check the accounts related to the Games projects.

The audit work for CWG is related to work payments, contracts and leasing of sports equipment among others.

"We have started with the CPWD office inside the S P Mukherjee Stadium today. Now that the atheletes have vacated the venues, we will gradually start sending our inspection officers to all the stadia," an official with the auditing watchdog said.

The CAG had begun assessing the Games' expenditure in August, but had to stop the audit related works in the last week of September as they could not access the premises of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

The official said the CAG had to suspend the audit works for over a fortnight since most of the CPWD offices are located inside the venues which had the athletes till yesterday.

The official said the biggest venue, the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, is yet to be inspected by the CAG and the government auditor would soon send its inspectors there.

The statutory auditor expects to submit the final report to the government by January-end, to be presented in the Budget session of Parliament in February.

Over 7,000 athletes and other staff from 71 nations participated in the 12-day CWG which ended yesterday.

In August last year, the CAG had submitted an evaluation report to the Prime Minister's Office and the sports ministry pointing out the slow pace of progress of all the projects connected with the Games.

The CAG study last year had also highlighted that all the projects would struggle to finish on time.

As per international guidelines, all CWG projects were to be completed by May 2009 and the last year should have been kept for trial runs.

However, after the award of Games-related work to India in 2003, no activity was undertaken till 2006.

The CAG audit would look into how the balance between the cost and quality has been maintained and whether there has been any cost overrun.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 15 Oct 2010 19:05

hnair wrote:whomever choreographed that martial arts segment needs to be sent to Australia's Victoria police gulag for re-education.....
That thing was so dragging, it looked like an early 80s chuck norris movie.
.......

the problem was not that it was dragging, the problem was that they got all the contingents performing at the same time. as a result only a few long shots were possibly and from that distance they looked like every other group of dancers arrayed in various geometrical shapes.
the performances also looked insipid in the close-up shots. it reminded me of the carnival type sword fighting in enter the dragon, the fire was missing in agni.

they couldn't showcase even a tenth of the excitement of these martial artforms.
and what of the girly flower or whatever they were trying to make in the middle ?

they should have done it like the dancers were choreographed in the opening ceremony, one group at a time came up on stage and they got to portray their individual styles before the all at the same time started.
I agree, gulag it is for the choreographer.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 15 Oct 2010 19:09

^^^ come come, we don't want to frighten everyone do we?
as it is everyone is commenting on 'nationalistic' tone of ceremonies!! (not to mention the flag waving horseman!)

Avik · Post by **Avik** » 15 Oct 2010 20:27

they couldn't showcase even a tenth of the excitement of these martial artforms.
and what of the girly flower or whatever they were trying to make in the middle ?

I think the problem was really in the telecast. I was there at the stadium and the performance was electric! In the live show, the laser and the colours and the sound reverberated like a Pink Floyd concert! I really think the telecasters couldnt capture the span of the programme; and I am not suprised at this, coz the TV producers were phoren and they just did not know when or where to focus , cut etc. like an Indian producer would have known.

The live show at the stadium was certainly breathtaking!

That said, the outside world was spared what the stadium audience had to suffer between about 5:30 to 6:30 PM..this was a performance from some female rocker, nay, clown called Hard Kaur and another clown masquerading as an MC called Nitin Arora who made a fool of himself asking repeatedly for more..noissssee..

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 15 Oct 2010 20:30

rocker?!?! she's a rap artist, with a silent "c"

Sriman · Post by **Sriman** » 15 Oct 2010 20:51

^^
I just looked her up on Wiki. Hardkaur (geddit?)

Varoon Shekhar · Post by **Varoon Shekhar** » 15 Oct 2010 21:16

There was a very thoughtful and incisive remark made by a Greek gentleman, speaking to an Indian journalist about the problems surrounding the CWG preparations. He said that Indians tend to make a mess of things, because they have a soul. This strikes one as so true. It doesn't justify the messiness, but it puts the malady in an altogether different context than sections of the British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian media place it.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 15 Oct 2010 21:17

Was the Australian Vandals caught on tape or something? If there is a video link, please share.

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 15 Oct 2010 21:19

That hard kaur

comes on Indian TV here as part of advt for her tours, I cannot stand her. She thinks she is Tina Turner. Another wannabe Amrikan Punjabi.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Oct 2010 21:53

SwamyG wrote:Was the Australian Vandals caught on tape or something? If there is a video link, please share.

Hearing that it is a security camera feed.

The Delhi police have presently buried it, on specific instructions of the powers that be.

It will surely surface on you tube in a while.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Oct 2010 22:02

has probably been instructed to put the lid on it by higher powers. if "10 janpath" authorizes, the tape and details will surface. hope the house keeping staff who first reported this vandalism atleast took some cellphone camera pics and intrepid timesnow journalists manage to locate them.

"raising slogans against SRT" - amazing....even the real pakis have not done that. but then , the faith of the "convert" (to pakiness) is always more robust than the original disciples.

Fidel Guevara · Post by **Fidel Guevara** » 15 Oct 2010 22:03

Gaurav_S wrote:

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse (L) and Britain's Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (R) attend the closing ceremony of the XIX Commonwealth Games at Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Photo: AF

Thank god for AF captions; for a while I thought the Earl of Wessex was the guy with the moustache, sitting next to the very TFTA Sri Lankan leader! Rajapakse seems to have ditched the suit-boot in favour of letting things hang free...must be very comfortable!

By giving Rajapakse this signal honour, this sends a strong message of friendship to the Sri Lankans. Far more so than the usual 26 Jan VVIP guest list - that happens every year while this is a once-per-generation event.

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 15 Oct 2010 22:09

Singha wrote: "raising slogans against SRT" - amazing....even the real pakis have not done that. but then , the faith of the "convert" (to pakiness) is always more robust than the original disciples.

Pakiness will be in claiming SRT to be the best player in the history of "Sauth Asia"

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 15 Oct 2010 22:29

thats ok - thats "inclusive n secular" pakiness...trying to sneak in and bask in the reflected glory of the IndoSphere. the aussie variety is racist pakiness unwilling to come to terms with India's rise and their diminished place in the world as a mining colony of china.

Vipul · Post by **Vipul** » 15 Oct 2010 23:18

mining colony of china.

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 15 Oct 2010 23:20

Ouch!! Singha-ji too much.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 15 Oct 2010 23:34

Singha wrote:thats ok - thats "inclusive n secular" pakiness...trying to sneak in and bask in the reflected glory of the IndoSphere. the aussie variety is racist pakiness unwilling to come to terms with India's rise and their diminished place in the world as a mining colony of china.

I need to order a plastic plaque, of course made in China, with those words. Maybe I will sprinkle some Australian diamonds. Incidentally the Australian Diamonds have value because of the expertise in Gujarat who add so much value to those diamonds. Else they are as good as junk.

I hope this phrase gains traction and spreads on the Internet like a virus

Too good.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 15 Oct 2010 23:46

CALMATTEEEEE!!!

(I dont know why I did that, maybe force of habit, maybe because the bugger never lets us down with his bungle of the day. It is like ejecting Pakistaniyat before wading into this thread

)

Rahul M wrote: the problem was not that it was dragging, the problem was that they got all the contingents performing at the same time. as a result only a few long shots were possibly and from that distance they looked like every other group of dancers arrayed in various geometrical shapes.

It was dragging because the energy levels was not there. A huge, huge part of Eastern martial arts is the facial expression. It is not taught as such (except in performance oriented ones), but facial expression shows the intensity of the artist and knows if he is just dancing around or longing to bring down hurt. If someone is dealing blows with 400% energy, that person's facial expression shows.

I saw no one in the stadium doing that. Hence the dragging feeling. Anyway, good that other art forms are gaining prominence, since till recently, it was only Kalari that seemed to have caught some attention.

Lal-mullah, Hindooo Fundamentalists sneaked in into CWG games open/close ceremonies alright: did you see that saffron lighting?

Avik wrote:
I think the problem was really in the telecast. I was there at the stadium and the performance was electric! In the live show, the laser and the colours and the sound reverberated like a Pink Floyd concert!

Dear Avik, lucky you!!! btw, being in a mass program with 1000s always is exhilirating. A fact that explains why crowds applaud such listless speakers as the Kerala communists of recent times. It is a big party feeling, allright

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 16 Oct 2010 00:17

http://sify.com/sports/australia-will-p ... jhiah.html

The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) has regretted one of its athlete's indecent behaviour a few days back and has agreed to pay for the damage caused at the Games Village in a rowdy incident after Games closure, Lalit Bhanot, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee secretary general, said Friday.

In a statement Bhanot said: "The media reports regarding Australian celebrations at the Athletes' Village and the resultant damage to a washing machine are true. The person in charge of Tower 21 brought it to the notice of the Village authorities. The issue was taken up with the ACGA, who regretted the incident and agreed to pay for the damage as per guidelines."

After the closing ceremony Thursday night, unidentified athletes dropped a washing machine from a balcony in the Australian section of the Games Village. Meanwhile, the athlete, whose identity has been withheld, was sent back home for bad behaviour some days back.

The Australian high commission in a press release Friday morning termed as "sloppy journalism to a new low" the media report that "enraged by the humiliating loss, some athletes went berserk, destroying electrical fittings and furniture on Tuesday and Wednesday".

According to the report which quoted Delhi Police sources, the irate athletes also shouted slogans against batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, who played a pivotal role in ensuring India's victory in the Bangalore Test match.

Terming the report "factually wrong, insulting to Australia's athletes and can only be described as a fantasy", the high commission release said: "It badly lets down a quality newspaper".

The release, however, admitted: "There were indeed some spirited celebrations involving the Australian team and a number of other teams at the Athletes' Village."

"We can confirm that in the course of those celebrations, a washing machine was damaged, though it remains unclear who did the damage, what their nationality was, and whether it was deliberate or accidental," the Australian high commission said

..
He also revealed that one athlete was sent home a few days ago for bad behaviour but he did not reveal the person's identity. "At the end of the Games, these things happen," Crosswhite said.

So....is it one guy or many guys?..if you don't know who it was, then what are you apologising for?
how can one guy lift a washing machine and drop it?
and when is throwing things that you don't own in a place where you are a guest is part of 'spirited celebrations'? maybe it is celebration when influenced by spririts?
and "these things happen" - really? why does it happen only with australians?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 16 Oct 2010 00:36

Gus, The Aussie High Commission came out with their version only after the DDM report! So there is a use after all.

jagga · Post by **jagga** » 16 Oct 2010 00:50

PICS:PM meets medal winners

VenkataS · Post by **VenkataS** » 16 Oct 2010 01:04

I am glad that there were no major mishaps during the commonwealth games and that they were conducted in a satisfactory manner after all the organizational troubles leading up to the games.

Now is the perfect time to hold everyone who was responsible for conducting the games accountable for their conduct. This should start with Mani Shankar Aiyar, Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhanot, Shiela Dixit and anyone else who had responsibility for these games. Every contract and every transaction should be investigated and the culprits convicted of their crimes. Simply put they should be punished in such a way that it should be lesson for future organizers.

New processes should be developed which make future games that are going to be held in India more transparent. And we should make one person incharge of overall games organization (not distributed across several organizations) with everyone else reporting to that person. That person should be answerable to the people, and should show to the people and the media how the milestones are being met at each stage.

These games have shown that we have a ways to go for organizing games at the scale of the Olympics. Lets start with something smaller, like the Asian games in 2018/19 and show the world how far we've come since Delhi 2010. Frankly 28 years between two major International sporting events; the Asian games in Delhi in 1982 and the Delhi 2010 CWG is a long time for a country of India's size. Conducting international sporting events (like the Asian games, CWG games, summer Olympics and maybe even the winter Olympics

) every 10 years will be a way to allow our sporting culture to develop and flourish.

But, let's conduct these games in some other city and not Delhi for a change. We should select from any of the following : Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. All of these cities should have decent International airports by that time. We should probably have a competition between these cities and ask them to demonstrate their organizational skills at some smaller event before selecting one of them as our bid. The bidding process for 2019 asian games is in 2011, I believe.

Also does any one know how much China invests in sports every year and how much we do? Targetted investments in sports should be made by the government with the aim of increasing our medals tally at the 2020 Olympic games. We should have a target of 30 medals overall (including 10 gold medals) at the 2020 olympics. If we can achieve that and also conduct a hugely successful Asian games in 2018/19, no body will be able to stop a bid by us for the 2028 Olympics. We should be a $15-20 Trillion dollar economy anyways in nominal terms by that time

AdityaM · Post by **AdityaM** » 16 Oct 2010 02:10

more pics http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/c ... 287?page=1
more psyops
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sp ... 5939409066

No thanks to the organising committee, it must be said. Still, somewhere in India, there's an orphanage that will benefit hugely from their stupidity and ineptitude. One group of Western trouble-shooters brought in at the last moment to try to rescue the Games' info-system came up with a fun way of penalising any of their workers who pointed out the glaring ill-logic of some piece of Games planning. Every time they complained about some hare-brained, nonsensical system, they were required to donate 500 rupees to "the logic bag", with all proceeds going to the orphanage. So high were frustration levels running before the Games that many took to making automatic donations at the start of each day, just to save time.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 16 Oct 2010 02:34

My American coworkers were impressed that Indian women won 4x400 relay. Looks like some of the were reading BBC and chanced upon an article about Nigerian team getting kicked out or something. They said they never had connected India to track-n-field competitions. Looks like this made them sit up.

Asit P · Post by **Asit P** » 16 Oct 2010 02:43

So India achieves both its targets (2nd finish in the medal tally and 100 medals)

. I hope that it acts as a baby step towards greater accomplishment in the Olympics.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 16 Oct 2010 03:23

Lalmohan wrote:^^^ come come, we don't want to frighten everyone do we?
as it is everyone is commenting on 'nationalistic' tone of ceremonies!! (not to mention the flag waving horseman!)

that was from lata mangeshkar's vande mataram video, produced by bharat bala.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PHJg9D_Sk

JwalaMukhi · Post by **JwalaMukhi** » 16 Oct 2010 05:10

Please scroll to the bottom of the link to see the finest. (Medalists)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_at_t ... alth_Games

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 16 Oct 2010 06:04

Lessons from the games....
http://www.dailypioneer.com/290059/Less ... Games.html

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 16 Oct 2010 09:04

The Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony felicitated the Armed Forces sportspersons who won Medals at the Commonwealth Games 2010, at a function, in New Delhi on October 15, 2010.

http://pib.nic.in/release/phsmall.asp?phid=31028

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 16 Oct 2010 09:05

Another fotu of Saina Nehwal with PM

http://pib.nic.in/release/phsmall.asp?phid=31044

Deans · Post by **Deans** » 16 Oct 2010 09:07

10 things I didn't expect to see at CWG but did.

1. Everyone raving about the village.
2. Awesome opening ceremony.
3. Kalmadi's Helium balloon worked.
4. Some of our gold medal winners are cute too! (Heena Sidhu, Ashwini Ponappa and Saina)
5. A 16 year old kid from Jharkhand winning gold - unbelievable.
6. Women wrestlers kicking ass.
7. Sheila Dixit kicking ass and getting the village ready.
8. Indian silver and bronze winners very upset at not getting gold (a big change in attitude from earlier years).
9. 2nd place and 101 medals (for once Kalmadi was right).
10. Great security.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 16 Oct 2010 09:22

LeT, Qaeda threat led to security upgrade

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/LeT-- ... ade/698318

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 16 Oct 2010 09:34

Earning their stripes

Security forces deserve the highest praise for their stellar performance at CWG

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Earni ... pes/698292