2010 Commonwealth Games

[mighty_tiger_79]

i wouldnt be going!!!

[JAS]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/australian-athletes-commit-to-delhi-commonwealth-games/story-e6frea8c-1225928048446.

There's reports England and Canada are set to withdraw completely from the games, and Scotland's already delayed their arrival to Delhi.

If they do, I'd expect Australia and New Zealand to follow, meaning the games will pretty much disintegrate. However, the swimmers may not necessarily get a 2 week holiday with a 4 nations swim meet between Australia, New Zealand, England and Canada possibly going ahead in lieu of the games should they pull out.

The news last night was that the England hockey and lawn bowls (iirc) teams are still flying out today.

A couple of pictures of the bathrooms here...yuck
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/commonw ... 025666.stm

Not sure why they're all acting so shocked. I was more shocked that India got the gig in the first place...not exactly famed for it's high quality building standards

Regards
JAS

[whufc]

Some of the photos are disgusting, i wouldnt let my dogs stay there at the moment.

There generally is always concerns about readiness for all these major sporting events but this time i think the concern is real. I bet the people in charge are really wishing right now they changed there decision.

[Brucetiki]

Opening Ceremony is tonight -starts 11:30pm on Channel 10 (note: it is NOT on OneHD)

[Brucetiki]

finally getting around to watching the Opening Ceremony (the iQ worked for that at least ).

Best way to describe it is cheap and nasty

[Thiele]

Love Foxtel coverage so far watching Badmintion for the first time.

[Brucetiki]

And the crowds have been flocking to the games

Reckon I saw 5 people tops at the netball (Australia d Samoa 76-39). Hockey has about 25 people, and I can't see anyone at the tennis!

[Brucetiki]

Nick Darcy has failed to qualify for the 200m butterfly!

Never fear though, we've dominated qualifying in most heats (including the other reps in the 200m butterfly)

[Brucetiki]

Love Foxtel coverage so far watching Badmintion for the first time.

Agreed - the few times I've flicked to 10/One's 'coverage' all I've seen is ads

[Hopeful Jelly]

Massive crowd attending the Australia vs Samoa netball game right now on Ten/OneHD.

Surely in a country with a population of 1.2 billion people you could get more than just family and friends watching the world champion team. It looks like they might need to borrow a few tarpaulins from AAMI Stadium.

[Brucetiki]

That game's on delay on Ten so I won't spoil that score

However in the current live match on Foxtel, half time (yes, half time) New Zealand are beating Papua New Guinea 57-12!

PNG should be grateful there's 4 people in attendance watching the game

Looks like lawn bowls have got the biggest crowd so far of 30

[dedja]

Massive crowd attending the Australia vs Samoa netball game right now on Ten/OneHD.

Surely in a country with a population of 1.2 billion people you could get more than just family and friends watching the world champion team. It looks like they might need to borrow a few tarpaulins from AAMI Stadium.

Don't be too harsh ... about a billion or so are still cleaning up the athlete's village as we speak.

[Media Park]

So did anyone pull out in the end?

Not necessarily countries, but even just athletes choosing not to take the "death before dishonour" card?

[Hopeful Jelly]

So did anyone pull out in the end?

Not necessarily countries, but even just athletes choosing not to take the "death before dishonour" card?

From an Australian viewpoint, Dani Samuels (world champion discus thrower) pulled out about two weeks ago. I did hear that two other Australians pulled out late last week due to "injury", but it may have been more a case of protecting against potential injury.

[Media Park]

So did anyone pull out in the end?

Not necessarily countries, but even just athletes choosing not to take the "death before dishonour" card?

From an Australian viewpoint, Dani Samuels (world champion discus thrower) pulled out about two weeks ago. I did hear that two other Australians pulled out late last week due to "injury", but it may have been more a case of protecting against potential injury.

Like death and dismemberment from something that is definitely not a discus?

[Brucetiki]

Some close scores in the netball

Australia 76-39 Samoa
New Zealand 102-21 Papua New Guinea
England 82 - Barbados 20

Medal tally so far

Australia 1 0 0
Nigeria 1 0 0
Inda 0 1 1
Wales 0 1 0
England 0 0 1

[Brucetiki]

Swimming centre starting to fall apart now - the 4 x 100 mens relay final was delayed while officials cleared debris from the pool!

India should be banned from hosting any international event in future they clearly have no idea how to run things safely.

For the record Australia won (and regained the Games record), with England second and South Africa third.

[dedja]

Swimming centre starting to fall apart now - the 4 x 100 mens relay final was delayed while officials cleared debris from the pool!

India should be banned from hosting any international event in future they clearly have no idea how to run things safely.

For the record Australia won (and regained the Games record), with England second and South Africa third.

The fella with the long pole saved the day ...

[Dogwatcher]

Some of the photos are disgusting, i wouldnt let my dogs stay there at the moment.

But you'll let them go to the Berkley!

[sapaul]

Good night of swimming on FOX. Even Rebecca Wilson was bearable.