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India Hoped Commonwealth Games Would Be Its Coming Out Party; Guess Again

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International Sporting Spectacles on the scale of the World Cup or the Olympics, and to a lesser extent, the Asian Games, the Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games have been used for decades to announce a country's entrance to the world of civilized nations. They have been a sort of debutantes ball if you will as countries from Korea to China to South Africa have been able to tout their economic might and the ability of their country to "work", to deliver on something as complicated and massive as an international sporting spectacle.

India hoped to use the Commonwealth Games starting this weekend to be its calling card to the world, to announce its entrance to the world stage and that it was just as capable as its chief rival China to obtain major power status. Unfortunately, the fiascos attendant to the construction of the venues and the appalling lack of preparedness has had exactly the opposite effect. It has exposed India's lack of infrastructure and its inability to successful govern itself. Virtuous as it may be, its democracy paralyzes the country and as a result, nothing gets done.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on October 03, 2010 (boomark / email).