commonwealth games ?

northernneil
northernneil Posts: 1,549
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
I presume this doubt about the facilities means we might not get any cycling to watch ?

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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    What are you on about? :?

    A link to the, presumably, news story would help.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11379020

    As well as the athletes village not being ready some footbridge between a car park and a Stadium collapsed injuring 19 people.
  • sonny73
    sonny73 Posts: 2,203
    It's not looking good eh!!
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    It's a non event anyway.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    The Scots should be careful of critisising too mucn - there's not much evidence of building work going on for when it comes to Glasgow.

    Having said that, the actual building for the velodrome started going up around a month ago. Nothing else is important.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • Ssshh, its for Scotland and Wales to feel good when they beat Bongobongoland in some irrelevant sport :wink:
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Ssshh, its for Scotland and Wales to feel good when they beat Bongobongoland in some irrelevant sport :wink:

    Meanwhile England get to the quarterfinals and bottle it.

    -Spider-
  • -spider- wrote:
    Ssshh, its for Scotland and Wales to feel good when they beat Bongobongoland in some irrelevant sport :wink:

    Meanwhile England get to the quarterfinals and bottle it.

    I dont think we will bottle it, just lose due to a general lack of talent and determination.
  • Sonny73 wrote:
    It's not looking good eh!!

    athletes will presumably be flying out for it NOW to acclimatise etc ???

    its one huge fvck up
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    -spider- wrote:
    Ssshh, its for Scotland and Wales to feel good when they beat Bongobongoland in some irrelevant sport :wink:

    Meanwhile England get to the quarterfinals and bottle it.

    I dont think we will bottle it, just lose due to a general lack of talent and determination.

    Nah - there is quite a lot of talent in England.

    -Spider-
  • Smokin Joe wrote:
    It's a non event anyway.

    A poor second to the average school sports day.

    India, may well be a nuclear power but are still third world, the games organizers should appreciate that instead of pandering to political correctness.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • India, may well be a nuclear power but are still third world, the games organizers should appreciate that instead of pandering to political correctness.

    Hmm....with a rapidly growing economy economy and reckoned to be the fourth most powerful nation. Meanwhile, Pinky and Perky are preparing to impose huge public spending cuts in the UK. That's bugger all to do with political correctness. Things have been going on outside the bars since 1977.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Couldn't believe the Indian organiser who suggested it was due to different standards! First of all if you have guests coming with different standards surely you should aim to riase your own standards to their level rather than them reducing theirs to your level? Secondly, I doubt many Indians would consider a house with sh** over the walls as acceptable living standards!

    I'm not surprised that the work is apparently so poor though, I did some design work for a new golf course in India that had a huge 5* hotel and loads of multi million dollar condos around the site. Unfortunately I never got to visit the site but the pictures I saw of the buildings I wouldn't have paid £50k for one!
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    India is a nuclear power and the fourth most economically powerful nation on earth, but they still have problems with corruption in the construction industry, the Laing O'Rourke venture being a text book example. India is a growing dynamic economy but the Indian construction industry is still well behind the times in terms of health and safety and quality control.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Perhaps the UK will be in a better postion to pass judgement after the 2012 olympics.
  • Pross wrote:
    Couldn't believe the Indian organiser who suggested it was due to different standards! First of all if you have guests coming with different standards surely you should aim to riase your own standards to their level rather than them reducing theirs to your level? Secondly, I doubt many Indians would consider a house with sh** over the walls as acceptable living standards!

    I'm not surprised that the work is apparently so poor though, I did some design work for a new golf course in India that had a huge 5* hotel and loads of multi million dollar condos around the site. Unfortunately I never got to visit the site but the pictures I saw of the buildings I wouldn't have paid £50k for one!

    Indian athletes have been competing in international events for decades, they should be more than aware of the standards expected.
  • In my humble opinion I believe a country where the majority live in abject poverty (never mind all this 4th most economical power in the world tosh) that,s down to the wealthy exploiting the by and large ill educated masses who have no hope of a decent life what-so-ever. Add to that they're always "on the ear 'ole" from the likes of GB 'cos there's been this disaster or whatever. The country is third world, they have their priorities wrong.

    Yes, we have more than our share of problems which need sorting out but we haven't quite degenerated (yet at least) to masses of people living in their own raw sewage and scraping the most megre living off of refuse tips.

    This is not a go at the Indian people, good grief they for the reasons stated above have to be more resorceful than most Brits will ever have to be it's a go at the powers that be.

    As for the commonwealth games one of the best things about them is it gives GB athletes to compete under the flag of their own nationality rather than the Union flag collective, of which I'm sure they're all very proud.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Crapaud wrote:
    The Scots should be careful of critisising too mucn - there's not much evidence of building work going on for when it comes to Glasgow.

    Having said that, the actual building for the velodrome started going up around a month ago. Nothing else is important.

    Lots of athletes though. I see them out running in their shellsuits all the time.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Cressers wrote:
    Perhaps the UK will be in a better postion to pass judgement after the 2012 olympics.

    No reason they won't be, the delivery is probably further advanced than any I can remember.
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Pross wrote:
    Cressers wrote:
    Perhaps the UK will be in a better postion to pass judgement after the 2012 olympics.

    No reason they won't be, the delivery is probably further advanced than any I can remember.

    Should be with the amount of money that has been thrown at it.

    -Spider-
  • Yes, we have more than our share of problems which need sorting out but we haven't quite degenerated (yet at least) to masses of people living in their own raw sewage and scraping the most megre living off of refuse tips.

    You've not been to Wester Hailes then? (joke).

    It seems that you are arguing that because India has a large population of poor people it makes it third world?
    The term is virtually meaningless - and I suggest that you visit some of the southern states of the US. India also has people like Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal.
    Quite what that has to do with the incompetence of building contractors, who knows?

    Next time a building or stadium collapses in the West, we'll designate the state as third world.

    Or is that politically incorrect?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I hope Cavendish turns up - and even wins - to show some of these athletes who claim they are tired (after the Euros in July) what lightweights they are.
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