The Commonwealth Games: a damaging drip-feed of Indian incompetence

Evening Standard

The Delhi Commonwealth Games will probably go on. The Indians have too much pride at stake and the Commonwealth Games Federation does not have the courage or the ability to stop them at this late stage.

A better leadership, particularly from the Indians, should have prevented this catastrophe. The preparations for the Games have always been fraught but the hope was that the Indians would catch up. When they failed, the organisers should have realised that cancellation would...