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I remember the ridiculously low attendance at KL in 1998 and now the venues are empty in Delhi 2010? I know Indians are not the most sports mad people in the world but you would have thought some would have shown up given how much they seem to care about hosting the games. Too bad puppy isn't on the ground.

Well, I have a view on the opening, but I fear that I am being influenced by the broadcast. Our Sky tv broadcast here in NZ had terrible audio, the sound didnt sound like it was being piped into the broadcast feed, but instead, that we were just picking up the sound from the loudspeakers around the stadium. This also lead to most of the vocal performances being totally out of sync, and to be honest, in the entire opening ceremony I failed to pick up on many tunes at all. Was this NZ or did other broadcasts have the same? I only ask because Im watching the youtube posted clips, and it is totally different. I can actually pick up on songs and pieces of music, and the lips of the welcome song guy is moving in unison with the song. Because of the sound issue I always felt kind of agitated. I think the opening was good, but it lacked continuity. I loved the feeling of joy and enthusiasm of all the performers, and there were certainly some eyecatching moments, but I still think it was lacking a wow moment. It obviously was the old style of ceremony, but in some a deeply spiritual country as India, I think there was room for something a little bit more artsy. Overall, it was decent, but I don't know if it will fall into the catagory of maybe the Manchester closing ceremony - where I will watch it again and again.

It would be short sighted not to consider the condition before the games. People were injured and I expect many died in construction. Child labour has been employed. These are moral issues which I have a problem with. In more practical terms, the athletes had to delay their arrival. As far as I am concern the rest of the games can go off without a hitch but the organizers will still have failed to be good hosts. No Olympics for the next 20 years, at least.

Altho I voted yes, UNFORTUNATELY, and Rogge spoke too soon-- Delhi's climate, like all of that in the Middle East swath, would NOT be good for a July-Aug-Sept SOGs. So unless the networks can accommodate an October SOG date, Delhi would NOT even make it on the calendar criterion alone.

Precisely, and I have been wondering why some forumers here seem to feed on that "western bias" thing to the point of actually fulfilling that prophecy. Which was also why I wondered why this thread appear to die off when the games appear ready to proceed largely unhindered afterall. Are people joining in the criticism party just because it was fashionable to do so days ago? If I were to believe my local press wholesale, it would seem the games is largely uneventful save for a few "western complains". The Singapore team are happy with what they see, are highly impressed by some facilities and the catering, and only have issues with small problems like some phones not working etc.

I caught that woman's name loooooooong ago. But it's actually worse. I read somewhere that it was originally dipsheet but it got changed to dikshit instead!! In any case, in many chat rooms, her name I guess comes up diksh*T??

Yep, the world is an evil place, and we (the Americans) will make everything better.

Yes

20 years? Try 250. If ever.

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Of course they can. A team of misguided Indians is hardly representative of Indian talent, and I am sure if the organisation is done by the right people, they will be able to pull it off even tomorrow.