the same issues for India will be similar to that of Russia with the Winter Olympics coming up.  

I'm pretty sure with the money invested in security, everything would be fine.

this is a shame cause india had expressed interest in hosting the asian games. if this becomes a failure then i think india will

have to wait another 10 years to host a major event. i'm not sure why hong kong is not involved in the commonwealth

games cause in its history hong kong and singapore were part of the british empire? or am i looking at this wrong

There is always an element of risk with travel and especially if you do not take some personal responibility for your own movements and activities.  However, in Delhi the risk to athletics will be minimal because they will be protected to the maximum, but if you were an Australian spectator, for example, you would be wise not to go into higher risk areas or to wear identifying clothes or carry Australian flags etc.

Hong Kong is no longer part of the Commonwealth and I would assume not eligible to compete or host the games. Even if this was the case I would assume China wouldn't want the world reminded of what they would regard as a 155 year long occupation of their territory.

This is going to be one seriously messed up Commonwealth Games.

They should really just cancel the whole damn thing, can't see it getting better.

They can't cancel, they've already spent the millions that the TV networks gave them for broadcast rights. Were they to cancel they'd get their pants sued off.

The networks would be secretly hoping for a disaster or two to help boost ratings, as long as said disasters don't interfere with their feed.

[ Last edited by  atomic3d at 27-9-2010 14:35 ]

very good point by you atomic. it is funny when i was growing up as a kid and we were taught that the boxer rebellion

was a bunch of crazy chinese ppl killing foreigners. that is true that did happen. but if you see how foreign countries raped

china on a daily basis then you know the whole truth why these ppl did what they did. yes, the games will not be canceled

the athletes have already started to arrive. the question is can india pull a rabbit out of their hat.

Now, I have heard that there is lots of sex in the athletes village at the Comm. and Olympic games, but these are not just the harmless trouser-snakes that the athletes would be expecting.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking- ... rfku0-1225930183243

SNAKE catchers in New Delhi have removed an adult cobra from the newly built tennis centre that will be used next week for the Commonwealth Games.
"We were requested by the Games authorities to help them rescue a snake spotted in the R.K. Khanna tennis stadium," Kartick Satyanarayan, head of animal conservation group Wildlife SOS India, said.

"We caught the snake and we removed it from the premises."

Yesterday, South African High Commissioner Harris Mbulelo Mejeke also complained about a snake found in one of the rooms of his country's athletes in the Games village.

"If snakes are found we can't ask our teams to stay there," he said before entering the village.

"That was a threat to the lives of our athletes. Very disappointing," he added.

Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.

India has 238 species of the reptile, of which 50 are poisonous.

Delhi authorities said last Friday they had also begun rounding up stray dogs that have been spotted in a number of venues for the Games, which begin on Sunday

A lot of it may only be just a media beat up, but you'd still have to pay me to travel to india to watch the games even without the bad press of recent times

Some of it is a beat up.

They did a whole segment of media watch tonight, where they broke down the footage of the Channel 7 journalist walking through the Delhi checkpoint with a suitcase bomb and showed how it was a complete beat up. The suitcase was empty and he was walking through a vehicle only checkpoint kilometres from any sporting venues or accommodation.

i just saw on tv that the bridge had collapsed and dirty toilets.... i this is getting reallly unsafe!! i hope no one gets injured from competing in d games.

good lord lister is it getting worse by the hour or what for india. well really all ppl can do is sit and watch what happens. i am

still optimistic and hopeful that these games can be successful.

Delhi deploys monkeys as security guards
DELHI authorities are to deploy a contingent of langurs - a large type of monkey - at Commonwealth Games venues to help chase away smaller simians from the sporting extravaganza.
From tomorrow 10 langurs will be put on duty outside several Games venues in the Indian capital, with the swimming complex seen as particularly vulnerable to monkey misbehaviour, an official said.

The New Delhi Municipal Council has a regular team of 28 langurs which are used to scare away their weaker brethren in VIP areas of the city.

"From tomorrow onwards we will increase the number of langurs from 28 to 38. The additional langurs will take care of the Games venues and other important areas," an NDMC official told the Press Trust of India news agency.

Animals have so far posed major headaches for the under-fire organisers, with stray dogs found in venues and a snake captured at the tennis complex.
Monkeys are a common sight in the verdant Indian capital, where they routinely scamper through government offices, courts and even police stations and hospitals.
In 2007, the deputy mayor of New Delhi died from a fatal fall after being attacked by a group on the terrace of his home.
Link here:
http://www.news.com.au/world/del ... rfkyi-1225931199068

Okay... this is F#CKING hillarious! Never mind the discussion about the Commonwealth Games... the New Delhi council has a team of monkeys to "secure" key areas of the city!

I hate to say it, but no matter what happens, for Delhi's reputation, I think the damage may be done...

Girls lured to Delhi Games for work being sold to brothels
        •        Under-age girls promised Games work
        •        Traffickers sell them into prostitution
        •        Police raid red light district, free girls
UNDER-aged girls are being lured to Delhi for work at the Commonwealth Games, only to be sold into prostitution.
The Indian Government has issued an alert, after receiving numerous reports that girls from the country's poor tribal states are being exploited by sex-traffickers.
The advisory by India's Home Ministry, obtained by The Australian, says: "The victims are mostly those who are promised work in Delhi ahead of the Commonwealth Games by fraudulent placement agencies but instead are likely to be trafficked.
"Minor girls are the main target. Strict action is urgently required against those involved in such trafficking, both in the source, transit and destination areas."
Hundreds of young girls from poverty-stricken rural states are believed to have been successfully trafficked into the city's burgeoning number of brothels, massage parlours and escort agencies.
Kailash Pathak, from rural West Bengal, fears his 13-year-old daughter, Khushbu, is among them.
The Australian accompanied Mr Pathak this week as he searched seedy Delhi's red-light-district for any sign of her.
He said he had tracked down a man he claims stole his daughter and reported him to police. "I rang him and said, 'Have you taken my girl?' And he said, 'What if I have? What can you do about it?'"
The man, Pappu Bagel, confessed to The Australian from a police cell that he led Khushbu away from her home but denied it had been against her will.
Delhi's illegal but thriving prostitution racket has been gearing up for several months for the Commonwealth Games.
Several establishments have reportedly been running basic English classes for their workers and renovating premises for foreign visitors.
Inside one brothel, The Australian saw a large flat-screen television fitted to the wall.
"It's so we can watch the Commonwealth Games," a middle-aged female worker explained as two men worked on renovations in one of the adjacent tiled and toilet-sized rooms in which women ply their trade.
The woman said she had no under-aged workers in the brothel and did not tolerate traffickers peddling young girls.
Outside another nearby brothel, where a 16-year-old girl trafficked from Nepal was rescued by police just two days earlier, The Australian counted more than 100 men in the space of just 10 minutes descending the dingy, narrow stairs in packs of 20 or more.
Delhi police have raided a number of brothels in the city's red-light district in recent weeks.
A police superintendent from one inner-city district said about 80 young girls had been seized from brothels and traffickers in the past six months.
Nishi Kant, from Delhi-based anti-trafficking network Shakhti Vahini, said his organisation had rescued 54 under-aged girls from the red-light district and the nearby New Delhi railway station in the past six weeks.
"The traffickers tell the girls and their families that they can get them good jobs in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games, but once they land here they're trafficked to various suburbs of Delhi and forced into prostitution," he said.
"The Commonwealth Games has become a disaster in the context of child-trafficking because we're seeing a clear rise in the number of cases."
Link here:
http://www.news.com.au/world/gir ... rfkyi-1225932033628

I swear, if someone was trying to write a comedy about the Commonwealth games, you could not come up with better material than this...

Now I see that the chief medical officer for the Games is off sick, with suspected Typhoid! I feel for the guy, but that's pretty funny...

http://www.news.com.au/world/com ... rfkyi-1225932620537

The latest drama...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/com_commonwealth_games_dengue

NEW DELHI – The crisis-plagued Commonwealth Games  took another hit Sunday only hours before they were declared open when an Indian team official who had been living at the athletes' village was diagnosed with dengue fever.

Ruptu Gogoi, a 30-year-old official with the lawn bowls team, was admitted to the GB Pant hospital in New Delhi on Saturday night and was said to have the disease Sunday. He is the first person affiliated with the games to contract the illness.

"I can confirm he has dengue fever, but his condition is now stable," hospital spokesman Dr. Rajiv Saigol told The Associated Press, adding that Gogoi could be discharged Monday evening.

Dengue fever, a painful illness that can be life-threatening, is a viral disease that spreads through mosquito bites. It has become an issue in the Indian capital this year because of the extended monsoon season, which increased the amount of stagnant water around the city.

The athletes' village, which some described as uninhabitable late last month, was said to have pools of water nearby as workers struggled to get things finished on time. The unhygienic conditions at the village even prompted several teams to delay their departures to India until things improved.

It was not immediately clear if Gogoi contracted the disease at the village or before moving in.

About 3,500 cases of dengue fever have been reported in New Delhi this year, and seven of the afflicted have died, the Press Trust of India reported.

Despite the latest setback, the opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium went ahead without trouble as thousands of dancers and musicians entertained the crowd and the teams paraded in.

Prince Charles spoke on behalf of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who did not make the trip to India for the games. He read a message from the British monarch and declared the games open.

Indian President Pratibha Patil then spoke and finished by saying, "Let the games begin."

Outside the stadium, the usually packed streets of the city were mostly deserted after the government ordered businesses and markets to close down for the day — all part the organizing committee's security plan.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, speaking to India's Times Now news channel, said the tight security in New Delhi was tough but fair. About 100,000 police and military personnel have been deployed in the Indian capital for the games.

"What I saw is definitely a good security with a lot of discipline very well applied, but also a kind one," said Rogge, who attended the opening ceremony. "It's not oppressive, it's not intrusive, and you know that these people are working for your own security."

Rogge even gave embattled local organizers some hope, saying a successful games would be a "very good foundation stone to think about the possible candidature" for the Olympics.

The Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, only the second to be staged in Asia, have also been plagued by other problems, including corruption allegations and construction delays. A footbridge near the main stadium collapsed late last month, injuring dozens of construction workers.

The problems have led to the withdrawal of some athletes, while for other reasons some high-profile names have also pulled out, including Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice.

But despite the notable absentees, the athletes who did make the trip to India are eager to get going.

"The Commonwealth Games for me are the highlight of my career and what I want to achieve," England swimmer Ross Davenport said. "It's the second major games to the Olympics, it's the second major championships we'll ever do. It's great to be a part of it."

Swimming starts Monday, and there will be five gold medal races in the evening. Gymnastics and weightlifting also have medal events on the opening day of competition.

Also, the Gandhi Peace Foundation reportedly wrote a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to complain that Commonwealth Games organizing committee officials desecrated a memorial to spiritual and independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi by wearing shoes where they weren't supposed to during the baton relay. Saturday was a holiday in India to celebrate the birth of Gandhi.

The Indian Express reported that the foundation is demanding an inquiry. The organizing committee would not comment on the story.

This year's games brings together more than 6,000 athletes and officials from 71 countries and territories in the commonwealth of the former British empire.

"It's exciting and there is a great buzz around the village," Australia chef de mission Steve Moneghetti said. "This is a spectacular moment in Indian sport."

i heard from my friend that some countries refuses to attend to the delhi commonwealth games because of their sanitary levels and other factors.

Games backs safe sex despite plumbing problems

COMMONWEALTH Games chief Mike Fennell said he was happy to see competitors engaging in safe sex at the athletes village even if it caused problems with the plumbing.
Reports claimed that thousands of used condoms had been clogging up the toilets at the village, which is home to 7000 competitors.
"This shows that athletes are being responsible and are promoting safe sex,'' said Commonwealth Games Federation president Fennell today.
The Daily Telegraph  (London) reported a condom vending machine had been installed at the village, containing around 4000 contraceptive packs.
Link here:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking- ... rfku0-1225935608734

wow!! this seems pretty hilarious... its a good thing that they are all practicing safe sex... which stops unnecessary spread of diseases... and hopefully they are not using underage children for their fun... which is a reallly bad thing.