Commonwealth Games Open with a Bang

[Wig44.]

We should be very proud of the Commonwealth, it is afterall our legacy.

Now we need to stop neglecting them and start trading with them.

[Ardemax]

Unsatisfactory living conditions? Per-lease. The entire Welsh team has said they are superb and people who made excuses simply made it up to not go instead of giving a proper reason.

People are meant to be representing their nation, not cowarding out of it.

*flame wars*

[Tintinnabulate]

True , the march past took like 2 hours and Unknown countries were coming up

Well you cannot blame India or any host nation for the march time as its standard. Unknown countries? Man you geography must be terrible. Feel sorry for you, really do.

I heard on Sunrise (Breakfast show) that the producer or director of the ceremony was purely trying to draw attention off the bad publicity it gets before hand. If this is true, I'd be disappointed because that would mean they knew before hand the conditions were crappy.

Also, the title made me think the opening ceremony was hit with a terrorist attack. :S

If you look at the photos, it was what? 1 or 2 out of hundreds and hundreds of rooms. Although it is unacceptable that those two rooms were in that condition. However, anyone who watched the opening ceremony would have seen English, Scottish and Welsh athletes say how amazing the living conditions were and not what the media were reporting. I guess people only remember the negatives and then look like total morons for neglecting the rest of the story.

The media kept repeating "The living conditions are extremely poor. Three British athletes are not going."
That would make any person think the three contestants were not going due to the living conditions as they did not expand on giving the reasons. However if anyone bothered reading the reasons, two of them pulled out a while ago due to injuries and one of them isn't going due to security reasons.

Either way, the stadium has been designed and modified in a way that you can evacuate the whole stadium within 6 minutes in an emergency.

Not to mention the unsanitary living conditions.

See above.

I only watched the start and stopped after the speech as I dislike the Indian president. I hate her attitude and is a utter moron. I recorded it so I will watch the bits after the speech this weekend as the photos look stunning.

The idea of the largest helium balloon in the world and using it as a projector is absolute genius.

[karter]

Well you cannot blame India or any host nation for the march time as its standard. Unknown countries? Man you geography must be terrible. Feel sorry for you, really do.

Mate , I myself think that the ceremony was very nice , actually better than the FIFA and Beijing 2008 Olympics , just saying that the March past made a little boring

[karter]

Not to mention the unsanitary living conditions.

The photos BBC released have been actually proven fake , those are of the nearby laborers rooms in which they don't even live now.
So was the sting operation , in which they showed how weak the security is. There are more than 60,000 Police officers and Commandos right now , the media always create a Hype about Asian countries which isn't right. They don't show what's really good. I just went through the Commonwealth games website , everything has been done beautifully , there is nothing "unhygienic" , adding on , many athletes do agree that the Village is much better than Beijing's.

Also , about the athletes pulling out , most are cyclists , as the World Championships are approaching they obviously need to concentrate on that. Again , this is Media Hype.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I heard 15 swimmers have fallen down ill and a screen has collapsed, what a shambles - you'd think the Indian government would have better things to spend its money on.

[Apple]

They did quite a good job of the opening, it's just a shame to see the stadium deserted all the time.

[karter]

I heard 15 swimmers have fallen down ill and a screen has collapsed, what a shambles - you'd think the Indian government would have better things to spend its money on.

The swimming pool has been tested by Australian Officials and its okay