Sukan Komanwel New Delhi 2010 (Tutup Malam Ini : Jumpa Di Glasgow 2014!)

Bornbaby · Post time 22-9-2010 12:23 PM

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Bridge collapse adds to India's Commonwealth Games woe

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A footbridge being built for the Commonwealth Games in India collapsed on Tuesday, injuring 27 people and highlighting the raft of problems that have so far blighted the event, meant to showcase an emerging global power.

Preparations for October's $6 billion Commonwealth Games, intended to be the coming-out party for India that the Olympics were for China, are so far behind schedule that the event risks becoming a farce.

The shooting of two foreign visitors by suspected militants in Delhi on Sunday has combined with a dengue fever epidemic, heavy monsoon rains, construction delays, graft scandals and traffic chaos to give the Games that sinking feeling.

Police said the collapsed bridge was just outside the main stadium, a reminder of India's sometimes-lax building standards.

Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell said on Tuesday the two-week event, starting October 3, was seriously compromised by conditions at the Games village that have "shocked the majority.

Canada's Games team said it might delay the arrival of some of its athletes if adequate accommodation was not available.

Commonwealth Games Canada president Andrew Pipe accused the organizers of "indifference that borders on the intransigent."

"This would have been an opportunity for India to shine," he said. "Instead I think it risks considerable national embarrassment unless some of these deficiencies can be addressed."

WITHDRAWALS

World discus champion Dani Samuels of Australia pulled out of the Games because of security and health concerns, as did England's world triple jump champion Phillips Idowu.

"Sorry people, but I have children to think about. My safety is more important to them than a medal," Idowu wrote on his Twitter feed.

Nevertheless, Canada, New Zealand and Australia said they remained committed to sending teams.

Jamaica played down the problems.

"We have gone to Games before, not only in Third World countries, where weeks before the event people were concerned about the state of readiness and when the Games began everything was in place," said Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association vice president Warren Blake.

Indian officials remained upbeat. "I am as confident and as cool as ever about our organizing. These are all minor hiccups," Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy told reporters.

The dismal preparations have, for many, underscored the out-of-touch, slow-paced leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress government, raising questions about how a graft-ridden, inefficient state can hope to compete with China.

"It's just one of so many goof-ups," said Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a political economist.

"This will not do the government any good. When you have a big bash and benefits are minimal, it sharpens and widens the inequalities in India. People notice."

Tales of billions of wasted dollars will not help. Perceptions of India's entrepreneurial prowess may also slip if roofs leak and journalists wonder where the Wi-Fi is.

"Fingers crossed, India may pull off a miracle," said Boria Majumdar, a sports historian who has written the book 'Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games'.

"But it will have to be a miracle. No doubt about that."

DELAYS AND DIRT

Construction delays mean venues have not been locked down securely by police until two weeks before the Games.

Some four or five accommodation towers at the village lack facilities such as fitted toilets and plumbing. Rubble, masonry and bricks litter unfinished gardens.

A crude cement slope appears to be an unplanned fix for disabled athletes requiring access to one apartment block.

The athletes' training center is still to be fitted out. The water in the training and recreational swimming pools is dirty, with insect larvae breeding on the surface.

"They have had some delegations staying there and they have been reporting constantly about the filth in the village," Games Federation president Fennell told CNN-IBN TV.

Organizers say there is no question of the Games being put off, but the nightmare is that one delegation exits and others follow. And the problems are not receding.

There are worries that puddles in building sites harbor mosquitoes that could spread dengue fever, which has put hundreds of Delhi residents in hospital.

Costs are running at 17 times the original estimates, and the government's anti-corruption watchdog has identified 16 projects with suspect financing.

The insistence on holding the Games in October has caused some athletes to pull out due to conflicts with Olympic qualifiers. There is a high chance of rain at the opening ceremony.

Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica is the highest profile athlete to decide to skip the event.

But many venues, including the main Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, have been praised as world-class.

And officials note that other events such as the 2004 Athens Olympics were dogged by problems, but turned out fine.

Bornbaby · Post time 22-9-2010 12:27 PM

Satu lagi article mengenai Commonwealth Games Delhi

Joe O'Connor: India's Commonwealth Games like a bad joke

Indian security personnel work at the site of a collapsed pedestrian bridge outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi Sep. 21, 2010.

Joe O’Connor, National Post · Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010

Monsoon rains, a dengue fever epidemic, car bombs, a collapsing pedestrian bridge, corrupt construction rackets, traffic Armageddon, indifferent politicians and a filthy athletes’ village that does not even have proper plumbing yet. Or wiring. Or paint on the walls.

The Commonwealth Games are coming to New Delhi, India, in 11 days. Canadian athletes are scheduled to begin arriving in 48 hours. India’s showcase moment is at hand. The entire world is watching.

But what the entire world is seeing — at least so far — looks more like the travails of a First World wannabe nation still struggling with its lingering Third World problems.

There are fears about safety, security and site preparedness. Canada’s Sports Minister, Gary Lunn, has “serious concerns” about the state of athlete accommodations. “It’s going to take a lot of work to rectify,” he said.

Scott Stevenson, Commonwealth Games Canada’s director of sport, who arrived in Delhi last week, is “deeply concerned.”

“Beyond the major cleanup required, there are other issues with plumbing, wiring, furnishings, Internet access and mobile telephone coverage,” Mr. Stevenson said. And people are angry about it. Canadians are angry about it.

Dr. Andrew Pipe, the president of Commonwealth Games Canada, sounds hopping mad. Wearily furious, in fact, because time is running out and because time and time again he has voiced his concerns to Indian officials and been met with something resembling a roll of the eyes.

“Personally, I am very deeply disappointed with the reactions of the Indian government and the [Delhi] Organizing Committee to this point,” Dr. Pipe said in a conference call on Tuesday.

“They speak of, or they reflect, it seems to me, a certain level of indifference that borders, at times, on the intransigent as they have been glacial in responding to the concerns that have been raised by my colleagues and I for weeks, indeed months, leading up to these Games.”

Well, the good news is, the Indians don’t seem to be too worried. The Games will go on. Even if they don’t go on, which was an extreme outcome the Canadians did not want to entertain, but one being voiced by New Zealand’s advance team after they waded through some athlete accommodations featuring exposed wiring, rubble and piles of human excrement. “If the village isn’t ready, the athletes cannot arrive,” New Zealand’s chef de mission, Dave Currie, said.

Games’ organizers in Delhi answered the international outcry over substandard living conditions with a head-scratching rationale, saying certain standards of “cleanliness” might differ from other standards of “cleanliness.”

Currently battered by criticism from the international bleachers, the Games have long been a flashpoint on India’s domestic political scene. Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, has chided Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for contributing to the Commonwealth instead of the “common health.”

He also taunted him. “Even if the PM starts wiping the floor the venues won’t be ready,” Mr. Modi said recently. Not everyone is panicking.

“I am not worried at all,” India’s Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy told reporters. “I am as confident and as cool as ever about our organizing of the Commonwealth Games in a very successful, comfortable way. These are all minor hiccups.”

Major international athletic competitions are, on the surface, about the purity of sport. And patriotism. And amid all the fun and games is a political message.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics were a showcase of muscular Nazi architecture and Aryan superiority until, that is, Jesse Owens blew away Hitler’s blue-eyed golden boys.

China’s Summer Olympic turn in 2008 flashed an Asian industrial tiger’s might while soccer’s World Cup cast an incandescent glow over South Africa, revealing a nation packed with human potential too often overlooked or underestimated by the West.

Now along comes India, another would-be beast of the Far East and suddenly everybody is gnawing on their fingernails wondering if they can actually pull this thing off.

Ask around and veteran Canadian athletes with experience competing in the country will whisper about the organizational hijinks that, in their experience, typically attend an Indian-run event.

Ask around some more and you find athletes competing in sports, such as squash — which is not an Olympic event — eyeing the Delhi Games as their sole shot at a gold medal.

“We’ve been looking forward to this for four years,” Canadian squash player Shahier Razik says. “This is the big one for us.”

It is also a big juicy target for the bad guys. Suspected militants gunned down two Japanese tourists in Delhi on Sunday. Soon after, the BBC received an ominous-sounding email from a terrorist group.

“We know preparations for the games are at their peak,” the email said. “Beware, we, too, are preparing in full swing for a great surprise.”

A car bomb also exploded in the city. Nobody was hurt. But the message was sent. Dani Samuels, the Australian world champion in discus, has withdrawn from the Games, citing security concerns.

Mike Duffy, an Australian journalist, poured additional gasoline on an already combustible situation by sidling past Delhi police and into the main Commonwealth stadium this week with an oversized suitcase.

Inside was a bomb detonation kit.

“Nobody asks me what it is for,” Mr. Duffy says in a voice-over. “And this is no ordinary piece of luggage.”

And this is no ordinary Commonwealth Games. Canadian officials have received assurances that the security is up to snuff.

Too bad the same can’t be said for the plumbing.

National Post, with files from Postmedia News and news services

kucingTomey · Post time 22-9-2010 12:28 PM

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RedDevils · Post time 22-9-2010 12:31 PM

baik bagi KL anjur la...

by the way, arca Sukan Komanwel jaman dulu tuh masih ada lagi di sebalik semak kat plaza tol KLIA...dan jugak dkt dengan roundabout seksyen 8/9 Shah Alam(menuju ke Tesco Shah Alam)...punyalah teruk biar benda yg dah berkurun tak di buang..

cak! · Post time 22-9-2010 12:32 PM

mmg worst..harap2 dibatal atau ditangguh je la

Rajawali · Post time 22-9-2010 12:33 PM

kensel je la daripada terus menanggung kemaluan yang amat besar..

ajinomotonosuga · Post time 22-9-2010 12:34 PM

memalukan DEMOKRASI - india is the biggest demokrasi

moral winner to COMMUNISM - beijing olympic

mana pejuang demokrasi?

demokrasi abah lu !

harimau76 · Post time 22-9-2010 12:36 PM

bg KL anjur mmg best pun..teringat plak zaman aku jadi volunteer kat Pusat Aquatik masa kita jd Host utl Sukan Komanwel 1998... one of the best experience in my life..