Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022.
I don't think the British ever thought of the Commonwealth as being common - they looted all those nations equally.
Why are we even still participating in these games again? I know. It's an extra opportunity for our athletes to participate in an international meet and win some accolades. But at what cost? Not just some medals, it's getting to be a matter of dignity.
In men's hockey, in the pool match between India and England, 3 Indians were penalised in Q4 with 10 minute penalties. At one point we played 8 minutes or so with 9 men. Yes our players lost their heads but it was way too harsh and it was clearly bias at play.
In women's hockey, in the QF against Australia, we were down to the shoot out. Savita saved the first one and Lalremsiami was ready to take hers when she was stopped with - "The clock didn't start so Australia will take the shoot again". An International tournament. Why is there no outrage? This is our National game. Our girls were deprived!
And then the case of Murali Sreeshankar's foul jump. Where did that -1 cm come from again? He got a Silver but in my mind he was deprived of a Gold.
The moment India won a ton of medals in shooting at 2018 Gold Coast, both Shooting and Archery were removed from 2022 Birmingham. Now that we are dominating Wrestling, it is going to be removed from 2026 Victoria too. What next, Badminton and TT?
In the Wrestling arena a speaker fell from the roof and the entire audio system conked off delaying the event by 3 or 4 hours! In the Badminton courts, the tapes come off in each court, sometimes during the matches. The clock doesn't go off in the hockey stadium. The completely corrupt Kalmadi games of 2010 still went off without any such mishaps.
It's time we pull out and simply boycott these games.
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