Commonwealth Games - crock?

**Banditbandit** · 5th October 2010, 15:01

Originally Posted by Genie

I have no interest in watching these games...they're stained with blood.

India....hmmm

Originally Posted by PrincessBandit

Personally I've always had problems with the amount of money poured into these things. I understand a country wanting to capitalise on tourist $ and world wide publicity (always in a good way, they hope). However I find it obscene what financial resources get poured into them when all that money would go such a long way to bettering the life of the citizens. Tourism goes a long way to bringing in cash but without infrastructure and satisfactory standard of living for the people who live there just who is benefitting from it all?

The money required to put on the public spectacles of opening and closing ceremonies for every Commonwealth and Olympic games could fund mega worthwhile causes within the nations they're performed.

Let athletes compete by all means. And I'm not suggesting they go back to the "bare basics" of the original concept from Greece....(although you blokies would be only too happy with that for events such as the beach volleyball for example - btw. I will never understand how that became an olympic games/comm games sport!

) But why, especially in countries where atrocious poverty is such a huge reality, does all this $$ have to be wasted for "spectacle" where each country is really only trying to outdo the last?

I'm with you both ...

Originally Posted by R6_kid

I'm definitely giving it a feel. Those girls are hot!

'cept when hot girls are bouncing round in tight clothes .. Go the Ferns .. Go the Black Sticks ...

**Forest** · 5th October 2010, 16:20

Originally Posted by scracha

Just spent a few milliseconds watching eNZed vs Wales ladies hockey game. There is NOBODY in the stadium. I shit you not, there's more spectators at my local fitbaw ground on a Saturday afternoon. Only signs of life are security guards and stewards. Ridiculous. You'd have thought they'd let the locals in for next to bugger all.

1. It's hockey
2. It's women's hockey
3. It's NZ vs Wales

And you are seriously wondering why nobody is turning up?

I doubt they could even sell seats to this fixture if it was held in New Zealand.

**scracha** · 5th October 2010, 17:50

Originally Posted by Forest

1. It's hockey
2. It's women's hockey
3. It's NZ vs Wales

And you are seriously wondering why nobody is turning up?

I doubt they could even sell seats to this fixture if it was held in New Zealand.

If its in a city with 16 million inhabitants then I would expect the gate price to be reasonable enough that a few thousand of them would be sat spectating.

**Berries** · 5th October 2010, 22:35

Quick, the table tennis replay is on Sky right now.

**Banditbandit** · 6th October 2010, 08:23

Originally Posted by Forest

1. It's hockey
2. It's women's hockey
3. It's NZ vs Wales

And you are seriously wondering why nobody is turning up?

I doubt they could even sell seats to this fixture if it was held in New Zealand.

And it's in India .. a BIG hockey-playing nation ...

**scracha** · 6th October 2010, 21:20

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

And it's in India .. a BIG hockey-playing nation ...

He's not being sarcastic either.

**Berries** · 6th October 2010, 22:51

WTF ? Solo synchronized swimming is on at the moment. Isn't that a contradiction in terms ?

Nice legs but.

**Genie** · 7th October 2010, 07:55

Originally Posted by Berries

WTF ? Solo synchronized swimming is on at the moment. Isn't that a contradiction in terms ?

Nice legs but.

ummmm, yeah, can't quite see how that one works either.

**Banditbandit** · 7th October 2010, 08:04

Yeah .. I always thought synchronized swimming was just controlled drowning ...

**pzkpfw** · 7th October 2010, 08:24

Originally Posted by Berries

WTF ? Solo synchronized swimming is on at the moment. Isn't that a contradiction in terms ?

Nice legs but.

Maybe they mean the swimming is synchronised to the music?

In which case, I could be a competitor, but the music would have to be thrash metal or something so my unco flailing would match (or you couldn't tell it didn't).

**wysper** · 7th October 2010, 08:57

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

In which case, I could be a competitor, but the music would have to be thrash metal or something so my unco flailing would match (or you couldn't tell it didn't).

I believe that would be the 50mtr fly.

But yeah, I could care less about the Comm Games and I consider myself a bit of a sports nut.

**Oakie** · 7th October 2010, 20:36

So it occured to me watching the decathlon shot-put event tonight with hardly a spectator in sight that you could almost have as part of the commentary "...and the spectator goes wild!" It then occured to me that their equivalent of the Mexican Wave would be the two spectators waving to each other from opposite sides of the stadium. My daughter sent me a txt earlier suggesting the cycling would be better if it were like the Super Mario Cart racing where the competitors can throw bombs at each other or grow super size and flatten their opponant. Speaking of cycling ... saw the Aussie winner of whatever race it was and she wins the gold medal for the most prominent camel-toe. Could almost use it as a bike-stand! Gold medal effort there.

**JimO** · 7th October 2010, 20:47

they should use the security monkeys for seat fillers

**mashman** · 11th October 2010, 12:32

Oh the injustice of it all, as a kiwi gal gets into her final, then because they change the time of the race, she decides to pack her bags and come home... why would you not run in the final? Kinda makes a mockery of going over there in the first place, let alone all of the training etc...

**pzkpfw** · 11th October 2010, 12:58

Originally Posted by mashman

Oh the injustice of it all, as a kiwi gal gets into her final, then because they change the time of the race, she decides to pack her bags and come home... why would you not run in the final? Kinda makes a mockery of going over there in the first place, let alone all of the training etc...

Originally Posted by The (not) Running Girlie

"Now we are all going to turn up fresh, it's not fair, it's not right at all."

Oh for goodness sake.

(If she aims to win by being fitter, not faster, maybe she's in the wrong event in the first place?)