Commonwealth Games : History, Shame & Pride (Part II )

Barring 1930, 1950, 1962 and 1986 Commonwealth Games India participate in all the commonwealth games and  year 2002 games which was held in Manchester it was India’s best Commonwealth Games s far medal tally is concern, Below is detail of Indian contingent  medal tally, started from best games to least, irrespective of year -

Year	City	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2002	Manchester	England	30	22	17	69
2006	Melbourne	Australia	22	17	10	49
1990	Auckland	New Zealand	13	08	11	32
1998	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	07	10	08	25
1994	Victoria	Canada	06	11	07	24
1982	Brisbane	Australia	05	08	03	16
1978	Edmonton	Canada	05	05	05	15
1970	Edinburgh	Scotland	05	03	04	12
1974	Christchurch	New Zealand	04	08	03	15
1966	Kingston	Jamaica	03	04	03	10
1958	Cardiff	Wales	02	01	0	03
1934	London	England	0	0	1	01
1938	Sydney	Australia	0	0	0	0
1954	Vancouver	Canada	0	0	0	0
1930	Hamilton	Canada	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part
1950	Aucland	New Zealand	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part
1962	Perth	Australia	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part
1986	Edinburgh	Scotland	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part	Not Taken Part

India’s pride in dock – Seven years ahead games awarded to bid city at its General Assembly, so India awarded XIX Commonwealth Games in the year 2003 and Organising Committee had enough time to create everything in order from stadiums to games village to beautification of Delhi to services and Chairman of organising Committee Mr. Suresh Kalmadi keep on saying on record that New Delhi will host the best games ever held in the history of Commonwealth Games, but just almost three months back in the year 2010 when organising committee had to meet the deadline of completion of all the infrastructure, every day almost everyday media started exposing scams and irregularities that’s goes in on the name of commonwealth games, it appears that every deal organising committee struck for getting services had scams or discrepancies, despite unofficial figures money pump in for games was around 50,000 to 70,000 Crores of rupees but rainy season expose the preparation of stadiums as lot of started leaking ,waterlogged on the playing filed because of poor draining system and that’s not all, even beautification of city become problems for Delhiites as with rain construction work was hamper and water logging was common scene of Delhi, and games village out of thirty four towers score of work was undone in almost ever tower. It was not only giving sleepless nights to organising committee and everybody who was attached with games but also people was surprise to watch incomplete works and surprise where huge money evaporated. With below coded problems it appears that top athletes can boycott or skip from taking part in the Games –

• Channel Seven of Australia did sting operation in which it was shown that a journalist cross the barricade with full of explosive in the bag without any check up by police personnel’s who were present there for security, and two days before shooting incidence took place in Delhi before this string operation.
• Due to excessive rain Delhi’s score of areas submerge into water and it become reason of outbreak of Dengue in Delhi.
• Filthy and unhygienic pictures of games village shown by BBC in which spiting of pan on walls and staircases, dirty toilets, sign of stray dogs on the beds and unfinished works were enough to scare the athletes.

Week before the commence of the games score of countries Chef de Mission thumbs down to facilities and they warn to boycott if they will not get hygienic and liveable clean games village and countries were-

• New Zealand
• Scotland
• Wales
• Canada
• England

and then PMO intervene and took control to rectify all the weaker links of games, even when England contingent arrived they stay in hotel for sometimes. Everything gave bad name to India in front of international communities and games which played on the sports field by sports persons was played non stop for almost three months but off the field courtesy organising committee’s failure.
Pride – As 3rd October passed with grand gala opening of commonwealth games, Indian Athletes are performing from very first day of games as if they make mind to clear and clean all the bad name and time Indian had seen and gone through before the start of games. At the End of Day Six Indian Athletes have won 20 gold medals and it wont surprise anybody if they even cross all time high of thirty gold medals tally of Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. We salute the heroes of India for fluttering the National flag high despite all odd around them created by handful of people.