What if they held the Games and nobody came?
Delhi organisers may have been so busy in getting venues ready that they didn't keep an eye on the Box Office.
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Empty seats…everywhere empty seats.
Organisers of the Commonwealth Games may have been so busy in getting venues ready and addressing security concerns that they didn’t keep an eye on the Box Office. At least that’s how it looks. No doubt the real reason is a lot more involved.
Early competition at the Games has been remarkable for the empty seats at stadiums.
Fewer than 100 spectators turned up to watch the Australian netball team thrash Samoa on Monday morning while swimmers raced in front of about 300 onlookers, 200 of them from western countries. The gymnastics and tennis were empty too.
Even the TV cameras can’t shoot around this.
It all diminishes from the atmosphere of the events.
A spokesman for the Delhi Games Organising Committee, Lalit Bhanot, blamed Sunday’s Opening Ceremony, which did not finish until after 10pm, for the small Monday morning turnout.
Ticket sales are said to have picked up dramatically yesterday after the success of the Opening Ceremony. There were also plans to bring in school children to fill seats.
Source: smh.com.au
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@justin, yes totally agree about the tennis commentators. We were watching this afternoon, waiting for the commentators to say something interesting or relevant. After about ten mins of watching an anonymous aussie play some other guy, we still we didn’t know the players names or what country the other guy was from. He was from “GGY” what ever that is! (I looked it up, turns out it’s Guernsey, which isn’t even a country anyway).
i have very good memories of going to the 2006 comm games, one of the best amospheres of any sport to go to, very family friendly and with less bogans & yobbos you get at the footy and cricket had a great time. and i think it really showed through the telecast.
it is definately lacking this time round if the game were held in Nigeria or something i would buy the too poor excuse. but India has one of he biggest film and theatre industries in the world. if people can pay to go to the movies and theatre they should be able to afford games tix which i just checked are not that expensive. It definatley detracts from the enjoyment of watching when the host country doesn’t seem to care.