I Say The Commonwealth Games Are Already Bringing Joy

I am enjoying the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games immensely.

I’ve always been annoyed at the way the Indian authorities will play the race card whenever anyone dares criticise the way they go about things. This comes up particularly around cricket. If anyone on the sub-continent gets looked  at sideways for match-fixing, poisoning, bribery, corruption and all the other things that we know happen, the Indians scream “racism” and bully the dissenting voice into the ground. There is no way they can play that crap now.

The Chief Minister (Mayor) of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit… yes. Stop it. I’m trying to be mature… Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is assuring us everything will be just fine. Here are two gems that I’ve heard from ‘experts’.

The athlete’s safety is guaranteed; At the village and sports venues. Between those two places however, they’ve painted lanes on the roads to reserve them for just athlete transport because, “Fast moving targets are harder to hit.”

Apparently every police person in Delhi has been pulled in to secure the areas around the various sporting venues. Meaning that everywhere else in Delhi is expected to fall into rioting, looting and antediluvian violence.

And we’ve all seen the other terrific stuff around the village. The collapsing this and the broken that and the unusable other thing. I’m particularly fond of the animal paw-prints on the beds. That’s the kind of thing that really lets a young athlete know they’re away from home.