Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, There is ignorance here as anything else, whipped up by the media - after all most athletes are quite ignorant of world realities. Before the games, reading media coverage, one would feel that if you set foot in Delhi, you would either get targeted by militants or be consumed by dengue fever or have a stadium roof fall on your head or be bitten by a cobra. In reality, I would rather walk the streets of Mumbai late at night rather than New York, despite the appalling poverty. But then, I have been to both places, so I can make up my own mind.... Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > I thnk that is a very harsh comment on those athletes. Some actually > just made commercial decisions, others were unwilling to accept the > risk and there was a risk, very thankfully not eventuating. > "without a hitch' might be a very generous assessment too, if you are > candid! > Certainly India is justifiably proud with the Games, as every host > country is too. > Personally I was sad that it was judged necessary to keep every > spectator from the courses for the road cycling and the marathons. > Perhaps it is a necessity or at least a symptom of today's security > restrictions. > > To pass through the security checks to enter a games venue you must > not have any items from the prohibited list. If you did have them and > still wanted to enter , there was no provision to store them. > > Besides the obvious and sensibly banned items also prohibited were > cameras, laptops and handy cams. > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > On 16 October 2010 15:38, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: >> I bet all the ignorant athletes from Australia and England who dropped >> out just before the CWG ?are regretting it now! Went off without a >> hitch, both in terms of facilities and security (must have been the >> No.1 target for a terrorist attack in the last two weeks): >> >> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_xix_commonwealth_games.html >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information