Heard about someone named Suresh Kalmadi recently? Shocked by all the allegations? Wondering what will happen to CWG? To begin with, please dont be shocked and surprised about all these scams and allegations. More importantly, we are India and from small college fests to big events like this one, we are used to these last minute patch ups.
A bit of digging up on the matter of how sport in general is run in this country will actually make you wonder how did we get the right to host the games in the first place? I would also wish to state that in India every sport is run by a politician who in addition to being a MP/MLA also take up the responsibility of heading this institutions. Now the mismanagment of each and every sporting activity in our country happens because they are headed by incompetent people who simply dont understand sports. It goes without saying that these people also make a lot of money during their tenure.
So the question which i am trying to bring forward at this juncture is the need to set our priority. Yes, the guilty should be brought to book. Suresh Kalmadi needs to answer so many question but is this the time to concentrate on him or is it not the time to concentrate on the athletes who are coming to India to play? Is this not the time to think how many medal we can win and who are our best bets for Gold? Make no mistake about it, India will host a successful CWG simply because the situation demands that. India is an economic power and these games are usually the best medium to showcase that.
From the Berlin Olympics to the Chinese one, games have always been the symbolic representation of power. India realized it and hence pitched in for the CWG with the ultimate target of hosting the Olympics. This message should reach us loud and clear and the medium through which it should reach(Press and Electronic Media) must understand quickly that while it is very good and important to play the role of public police, it is also naive to miss the core intention of hosting these games. The media needs to understand that they are not doing any good by subscribing and inlfating the negative reports about CWG. As a matter of fact, those who are shouting so much about the games village should take a look back at the Manchester or Vancouver games where althletes were made to stay in University campus. They should also check reports of how Athens was so much criticized prior to the Olympic games there. In the end all these games were a success.
Let the games roll on, let it be a success. We will have time to bring the culprits to the book. Now its time to unite as a country and project ourselves as worthy contenders to host bigger events like Olympics and Fifa World Cup.
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