Chewing the spirit?

The Australian athelets at the CommonWealth Games have been complaining that the indian event organisers treated them like 'cattle' as they were made to wait in a tunnel in '"in cauldron conditions" during the opening ceremony. Imagine our beloved Mr. Kalmadi's luck, first the embarassing, and hilarious, speech bloopers and now he has to apologise and make promises that nobody expects him to keep.

So when Australians were treated like cattle, is that bad? Australia is the 6th largest breeder of cattle so i guess they realise the cows have it good. Even here Look at the indian cattle, right at home while marching the streets, exploring green pastures wherever they find it. They don't seem to even mind the weather too much. Point being, if it was meant to be a derogatory remark , then no offense should be taken. Because it seems everyone is playing into the whole idea of 'criticise for the sake of critisising'.

Talk about stealing our thunder! Why aren't any other teams complaining about our oven stadium and poor management?

Recent relations between the two countries have been on shaky grounds with so many indian students and residents being beaten up by australians in what were called racially motivated acts. So why can't mature, happy, well off nations realise this and just take it easy.

 How bad could it have been, we haven't seen any other teams complaining. And whatever said, the opening ceremony was spectacular. It proved that India has arrived. So instead of trying to take away from our glory, and threatning India with absences of their teams at other sporting events in the future, why not handle things amicably, maturely and diplomatically?

Yeah, so our leaders are corrupt, the games could be managed better, but there always an upside, when you're eyes are open enough. As corrupt as Kalmadi is, the guy makes the whole nation laugh atleast at him, but we don't mind. Because it's our country and we feel we have a right to. But when outsiders come and start trashing our nation along with us, we'll have none of it. Especially on trivial things which can be sorted out at another level, maybe through feedbacks or diplomatically rather than creating media hype and trying to dampen spirits.

With events on such large scales, there will be glitches, especially when it' a blooming wonder like India but it would be so nice to see sports people forgetting what they're being served and meet it irrespective with their best sportsmanship.