RIP Commonwealth Games

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