This KERFUFFLE surrounding the Delhi commonwealth games

[Simster]

What's your take on it?

Some of the pics I saw made the athletes village look absolutely disgusting, and that bridge collapsing is pretty poor.

How can a country the size of India fail to do something like this properly? Not very impressive really!

 

[itszamora]

It's a farce and the games should be cancelled. The best quote was from one Indian government minister: "Western people have different standards of hygiene to us."

 

[Raphael Meade]

i see a false ceiling has collapsed in the main arena today too!
scotland have delayed sending their team out too...

is it gonna actually go ahead

 

[bhaexpress]

What's your take on it?

Some of the pics I saw made the athletes village look absolutely disgusting, and that bridge collapsing is pretty poor.

How can a country the size of India fail to do something like this properly? Not very impressive really!

Despite the fact that India is a rapidly growing economy it is still very poor and they have a lot of other things to spend money on. Most of the people of Indian extraction who've been there have told me how much the disliked it (make that hated) thanks in no small part to the poverty. I hope that they get it sorted as they could use the cash.

I might add that a lot of people moan about talking to call centres there but the poor sods on the other end have to follow a script and if they deviate from it they stand a good chance of being fired, something that is far more serious there than here. We use an Indian based monitoring service for the servers we support and you won't find a nicer bunch anywhere.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Do they not have inspection teams to make sure these things dont happen? Sadly its too late to hold somewhere else now.

 

[CHAPPERS]

They've known since 2003 that they were staging these games.

 

[pishhead]

This is a big chance for India to show the rest of the world how far they have come with the influx of new money. They have failed.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Got to say that I'm not entirely surprised. I was in Delhi just under a year ago and I remember looking at the stadium and site and wondering how the hell they were going to finish it on time.

 

[strings]

Do they not have inspection teams to make sure these things dont happen? Sadly its too late to hold somewhere else now.

When it looked like Poland were slipping in their schedule for the 2012 Euros, UEFA made backup plans for some games to be hosted in Germany. That was a couple of years ago and the problems now seem to have been resolved. Nevertheless, I'm sure the threat of losing the games and also the knowledge that there were backup plans played a part in Poland sorting their act out.

The Commonwealth games bods should really have done the same a year or more ago - giving Dehli a kick up the arse and also ensuring that there are backup plans. There are plenty of other places with the stadia and the infrastructure, unfortunately now is too late to change anything.

 

[Bwian]

They've known since 2003 that they were staging these games.

Exactly right-it's not like they only had a couple of years to get ready.

 

[bhaexpress]

Before getting too judgemental let's see if the 2012 Olympics break even and if and when they don't how long will it take to finish paying for it.

 

[alan partridge]

Well I think the botched jobs they've done have been excellent for the games.

I had no idea they were taking place until I heard this news.

 

[adrian29uk]

Despite the fact that India is a rapidly growing economy it is still very poor and they have a lot of other things to spend money on. Most of the people of Indian extraction who've been there have told me how much the disliked it (make that hated) thanks in no small part to the poverty. I hope that they get it sorted as they could use the cash.

I might add that a lot of people moan about talking to call centres there but the poor sods on the other end have to follow a script and if they deviate from it they stand a good chance of being fired, something that is far more serious there than here. We use an Indian based monitoring service for the servers we support and you won't find a nicer bunch anywhere.

I know they are very polite always. It's not their fault, and I always consider this when they call me, but from my point of view its just impossible to sort anything out when the customer services are thousands of miles away and you have a problem with your bank account, internet and other services.

 

[Raphael Meade]

Well I think the botched jobs they've done have been excellent for the games.

I had no idea they were taking place until I heard this news.

haha snap! actually a very good point..

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I know they are very polite always. It's not their fault, and I always consider this when they call me, but from my point of view its just impossible to sort anything out when the customer services are thousands of miles away and you have a problem with your bank account, internet and other services.

Out of interest, how many miles away WOULD it be possible for someone to be located and sort out your bank account? Would Glasgow be OK? Merthyr? Why should that make a difference? I suspect that's a question of perception rather than genuine efficiency.

 

[Gazwag]

Before getting too judgemental let's see if the 2012 Olympics break even and if and when they don't how long will it take to finish paying for it.

There is a slight difference between whether a games will make money and whether a stadium will collapse killing atheletes and spectators

 

[Badger]

Before getting too judgemental let's see if the 2012 Olympics break even and if and when they don't how long will it take to finish paying for it.

But that isn't the issue, this is to do with the standard of the facilities not whether it will make any money.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Reminds me of a joke.

What is the difference between a bench and a black man?

A bench can support a family.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Before getting too judgemental let's see if the 2012 Olympics break even and if and when they don't how long will it take to finish paying for it.

Besides that not being the issue, 'repayment' is presumably unquantifiable.

 

[bhaexpress]

I know they are very polite always. It's not their fault, and I always consider this when they call me, but from my point of view its just impossible to sort anything out when the customer services are thousands of miles away and you have a problem with your bank account, internet and other services.

Quite so but who writes the scripts ?