RIP Commonwealth Games

Heaven needed a Bronze medal in Lawn Bowls for Jersey.

(We can use this as the 2010 Commonwealth Games thread in the unlikely event of it going ahead.)

Y'know I was just thinking about starting this.

Athletes need to man the fuck up imo

athletes are such prima donnas

xp

yup

Looking forward to boycotts of London 2012 if this collapses tho

Collapsing briges, shit in althete village units, overflowing loos, wtf are they doing!? I was reading about this today and holy shit, I mean ok the media would be beating it up but it sounds like such a fuckup.

It's not due to start for a fortnight yet.

Obviously whether some third string 400 metre runner can get a personal best and a fortnight in a luxury hotel is more important than the economic and political gains to India.

'athlete villages' are the biggest con of all time

pack a tent, son

I think Australians being patronising towards Indians is the highest priority here.

Presumably your cricketers will avoid the place for another 5 years now.

Not while the Indians are paying us millions in television rights, no.

"Our colleagues from Wales tell us that they had two dogs sleeping actually on the duvets which have been designed for the athletes," England's chef de mission Craig Hunter told BBC Hindi.
"Then the dogs jumped off the bed and went into the shower unit for the toilet and jumped back on to the bed."
...
Defiant organising committee secretary-general Lalit Bhanot insisted: "The situation is under control."
...
Bhanot explained: "Everyone has different standards about cleanliness. The Westerners have different standards while we have different standards."

SO GREAT

"I always let my dog shit in the shower, what's the problem!??"

I'm assuming it's not solely Delhi's fault that things were allowed to escalate to this point so whoever was supposed to be overseeing and regulating the process needs to man up and not heap all the blame on India here.

best to let sleeping dogs lie somewhere else

How about shitting dogs?

Those dogs were clearly house trained.

Holes dug ubiquitously in an effort to "beautify" the Indian capital – millions of pot plants were to be planted – have contributed to an outbreak of dengue fever. The holes were left unfilled, stagnant water collected and mosquitos bred in their millions.

The Westerners have different standards while we have different standards

Losing my shit here.

xps

i have no immediate proverb to tailor to that occasion, i must say

Shitting dogs don't lie, they let incompetent administrators do it for them!

Seriously, it's like this guy is trying to insult as many people as possible.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100922/jsp/sports/story_12966666.jsp

http://ashpillai.blogspot.com/2010/09/letter-to-dr-lalit-bhanot.html

http://www.smh.com.au/commonwealth-games-2010/comm-games-news/you-will-never-speak-to-them-security-stops-journalists-from-interviewing-australian-athletes-20100928-15uqf.html?autostart=1

Australia's gymnastics team was strangely denied a chance to speak to the press after touching down at Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport late on Monday.

Despite having waited almost three hours for a delayed flight to speak to gold medal hope Lauren Mitchell, Australian media people were told by police shortly before the arrival they would not be able to ask any questions.

it's all shaping up pretty well isn't it

although fingers crossed, we'll owne the brits @ track cycling @ the Delhi Commonwealth Games : )

Opening ceremony on now, folks.

Waiting for it here, Australian television is showing twenty features on Indian food!

Prince Charles is so thrilled to be there listening to a lo-fi recording of the Indian anthem.

has australia won all the medals yet

not quite

the opening netball game got an attendance of 60, the opening tennis match got about 20

gold for straya

nick d'arsey's tilt went well!!

i know gymnastics isn't the most thrilling of sports, but i at least thought someone would go and watch it?

Half the swimmers throwing up from suspected contaminated water, sprinter's blocks all slipping on the track (with dudes running in front of the sprinters painting the lines), no-one watching anything. Hugely success all round.

Also sore losing Englanders stripping Aussies of golds with protests in order to "win" a bronze.

YEah, that protest was fucked imo. England were quite happy to let their dq'ed runner go again, but then cried foul when Pearson won. Boo!

Radio 5 commentating on this = most embarrassing, condescending, smug, narrow-minded, cutely nationalistic shit I have ever heard - it's like an event designed to give the home nations a sporting chance in as many events as possible

ban the commonwealth games

also ban incessant lyrical descriptions of how someone bravely prevailed in a fucking hurdles race - they were winning and they won, so what - play >1 hour of competitive sport then come back to me

An hour of running hurdles would be fucking brutal, that's for sure.

yeah and I would like to see it

seriously there is nothing more infuriating and pathetic than national radio going batshit for home-grown athletes in a prissy little commonwealth tournament while trying to pretend it's a massive deal

you're embarrassing yourselves and your corporation

Man, was there some cricket on the radio today then?

bwahaha

Joeks, I pretty much agree with you on this fwiw.

like, I don't disagree with the tournament's right to exist but christ almighty if you're going to cover it, cover it for what it is and give every participating country a fair hearing, don't treat it like fucking christmas for mediocre british athletes

they're all mediocre british athletes tho? commonwealth's a distinction i dont fully get tbh

Watching the athletics I notice that the phrase "fastest losers" has been replaced by the snappy "fastest non-automatic qualifiers".

I'm a non-automatic qualifier baby, so why don't you kill me

Bill Burr is working on a bit about it as we speak