Commonwealth Shame!!!!

What a shame!! A fabulous nation is being asphyxiated by the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and big corporate bodies. Now it has reached the grass root level... a beautiful top-to-bottom development..... Even the sub-contractors and labourers are competing to bring in shame on a nation.

Fellow Indians, just read some of the news coverage and the comments made by foreigners. Always remember that the media distort truth... but it is good to know what others think about us.

AAP News
The first photos have emerged of the accommodation for athletes at the Commonwealth Games in India. One shows a filthy leaking toilet, another a stained and dirty shower and a third a bed with muddy dog paw prints over it.


The pictures, leaked to the BBC by an unnamed member of a national delegation, were the first illustrations of the conditions that so shocked officials who recently arrived at the athletes' village in Delhi.

Angered and frustrated by the inaction of Indian organisers, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the games international body, and leading countries went public with their complaints on Tuesday.

The photos show the conditions that were described by them "filthy", "uninhabitable" and "seriously compromised".

Other photos, said to have been taken this week, show bathroom sinks full of dust and stained with an unidentifiable reddish-brown liquid, cracked pavements, shattered glass on a balcony, water-logging, stray wiring and rubble.

A number of leading countries have postponed the departure of their athletes, but the first small contingent was scheduled to arrive on Thursday at the village.

The athletes' village, a sprawling complex near Delhi's main river, was slammed by CGF president Michael Fennell on Tuesday, while his deputy, Mike Hooper, detailed a serious of complaints from participating nations.

He described rubble, shower doors put on backwards, blocked toilets and various problems with the electrics.

There was also "excrement in places it shouldn't be", thought to be a result of labourers relieving themselves in the homes, while Scottish officials are reported to have photographed a stray dog defecating on a bed.

Readers' Comments:

norma09:
Cancel the Games!!! Bring this debacle to a halt now!!! We cannot allow our athletes to live in such squalid conditions, nor subject them to the possibility of contracting dengue fever (and needing to go to an Indian hospital) or be caught in some shoddily built building. On top of that there is a real and constant threat of terrorism!! Warnings, Warnings, Warnings galore!!!


India should not have been picked for such an event. It is a poor country, over populated and of course the sanitation is horrible, not to mention the drinking water. Why on earth it was allowed has left everyone scratching their heads. I will not condemn them I will say shame on those who gave the games to India in the first place. These are the people that should be blamed!!!

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for shame on the people allowing india to host the games in the first place. they are to blame!!!

6: I can fully understand why the athletes from countries other than India would not want to go there. Just taking into account that a Journalist broke the law by buying a bomb machine and taking it into a secure area and the fact only ½ the buildings are finished, the security is basically non-existent and hygene is definitely non-existent, people bathe in the rivers. A good place to stay away from. And the stench of the place.



3 ROGORAECK09:Surprised at India standards............??????????????


21 Michelle0: Cracked Pavement!! Oh dear - us poor westerners are a bunch of sooks. This is India!! Yes I know that it is supposed to be all flash and wonderful to show off their country - but in reality over 1/2 of India's population live WORSE than this for real!!!Finding food to live on in tips, drinking foul water and not even knowing what a flush toilet is. Maybe its time to put money into the lives of these people instead of wasting money on sporting crap that will go to waste.....

12: That's not Delhi, that's my bathroom. Who took that photo???

John1: This is ridiculous. India should never have been allowed to host such an event. There is too much corruption in that country and this is the main reason the preparations have only got to this stage. Then onto security - or lack of it. With all of those radical groups over there just waiting to pounce on anyone foreign. Why on earth would we allow our country's finest athletes to go over there, that is just asking for trouble. I love Indian food but that is about as far as it goes

sam2: First it was Olympics at Athens, then South Africa now the Delhi games, it is typical of the Australian media to highlight and discredit anything that is not Australian. Why is it that only the white Commonwealth countries are kicking up this hue and cry about the facilities. The same thing would have probably happened in China, but because no journalist was allowed near the facility until the games started and not allowed to report anything negative, there was no neagative media
coverage....

Winsome11: India is a shameful country the way the government and the wealthy completely ignore the poverty and squalor that 99% of their people have to endure. Where's the U.N???? How can they ignore the situation without seriously taking those people to task for their greed and slackness. That goes for a whole lot of other countries around the world. Disgusting!