Bishen Bedi urges Delhi Commonwealth Games boycott
Bedi,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one of India's most famous former sportsmen,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is embarrassed by the performance of his home city in constructing venues, which are months behind schedule and have little or no chance to be completed by the October 3 opening ceremony.
Commonwealth Games Federation chief Mike Hooper has asked the Delhi organising committee to update him on safety standards and wants a report from agencies involved within the next two days.
"India is going to lose a lot of credibility out of this. There was so much corruption going on that they just have not thought this through,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The outside world don't realise how badly prepared we are."
Bedi,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was regarded as one of the finest leftarm spinners of all time, said no matter how much money and resources were thrown at venues over the next six weeks it would be impossible to bring them up to speed for the Games.
India's Government stepped in last weekend to salvage Games preparations, appointing a new group of ministers to oversee preparations.
CGF president Mike Fennell is due tomorrow to inspect all of the venues none of which is complete. Athletes are due to start arriving in Delhi in less than a month.
With 47 days to go, Hooper said the task was huge.
And it's not just the stadiums that are sites of construction hell Delhi's top tourist spots are a dangerous mess thanks to the unfinished Commonwealth Games development.
The popular backpacker haunt Paharganj, Delhi's main bazaar,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is one of the areas being renovated by the government in anticipation of the Games.
Navigating the flying rubble was Irish tourist Stephanie Edgar, 22. "I was lucky to make it through there alive," she said.
Ms Edgar told The Daily Telegraph of going to sleep in her hostel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], three storeys up, and waking to find the wall opposite her door had disappeared.
"I could see right through out on to the other building there was no longer a wall there," Ms Edgar said. "They'd ripped off the entire building facade."
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