Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >