Commonwealth boss promises to iron out Delhi games problems
Saturday 25th September 2010, 2:29PM BST.
TEAM Guernsey’s chef de mission met the president of the Commonwealth Games Federation yesterday to discuss problems facing the event.
David Harry (pictured) was at the talks along with all the other chefs de mission to iron out their concerns with CGF president Mike Fennell.
He came away assured organisers would be able to put the scandals that have dogged the build-up to the event behind them.
‘Lots of points were raised about conditions in the athletes’ village,’ he told the Guernsey Press yesterday.
‘They have agreed to rectify the issues we had with our flats.’
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What do you all expect? You are going to a third world country! Look around and you’ll realize how lucky you are.
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jayne
my son is going to india he knows what to expect
he knows he is lucky to live here
he doesn’t need you to tell him
thanks!
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Yes jayne it is a third world country thats why they should never have been given the games in the first place. To hold a big event like this you need quality facilities which they obviously have not got, sad for all the competitors.
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I believe the facilities as far as the actual games go are not the issue here, it is simply the accommodation that is the concern. There are plenty of very good hostels and hotels in Delhi. Kevin- I was not referring personally to your son, and John- yes it is a third world country which is why it is going to be such an economic boost and benefit for them.
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jayne
of course I know you were not refering to my son. My point is do you not think the whole commonwealth games team knew they were going to a third world country. nobody I spoke to was worried about standards. A few were worried about security. Let’s hope the Indian government make the most of this and benefit their people instead of spending huge amounts of money on sending rockets into space.
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good luck to local bods in delhi but these games are surely on their last legs – as anachronistic as the commonwealth itself. (china could do the olympics because they are essentially a one party dictatorship and the state is all powerful, whereas the would-be rival india is a free (ish) democracy but the state is struggling). i do not know if any of these prestigious events ever benefit the local working people in the long term. certainly hundreds of chinese workers and indian workers will have been removed from their homes and many others killed in accidents putting these indulgences on for us all. acceptable if it happened in guernsey? no? so why so anywhere else? but, hang on, far more important – the pole vaulter has found a snake in the toilet – we can’t possibly compete in such a backward and godforsaken place claims the daily empire (see pages 1,2,, 4 and backpage exclusive!!)
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