NEW DELHI (AFP) – Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie has slammed the chaotic preparations for the Delhi Commonwealth Gamesas a "great humiliation" and recommended a "severe spanking" for a leading official.
"It's been a great humiliation for us all," the award-winning author of Midnight's Children told India's NDTV television network in an interview from New York.
"I feel very embarrassed by it and I'm sure many, many people in India feel the same way."
The Games, which open on Sunday, had teetered on the brink of collapse last week when some nations threatened to pull out amid worries about security, a bridge falling down, and "uninhabitable" athletes' accommodation.
Problems plaguing the Games include an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever, corruption allegations and doubts about the quality of some of the venues and associated buildings.
Rushdie took particular umbrage at organising committee secretary-general Lalit Bhanot who suggested that complaints about the athletes' accommodation by some Western countries were because of differing attitudes to cleanliness.
"That official who claimed that we in India have lower standards of hygiene, he should be spanked very severely," he suggested.
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You’ve arrived for your weekly medal desperate to shoot a good score and get your handicap cut. So what should you do in those 20 crucial minutes before you tee off?
In this video tip from TG Elite Teaching Pro Richard Ellis, we show you the best way to prepare for your own major championships.
Use your time on the practice ground rehearsing the right shots with the right clubs and then move to the putting green to dial in your accuracy and get a feel for the pace of the greens on the day. By rhyanjames.info
It’s only natural to get nervous when standing over a three-foot putt. After all, it’s a length of putt we expect to make every time, which puts extra weight on our shoulders.
This pressure is detrimental to our putting stroke and often causes a nervy deceleration into the ball, as TG Elite Teaching Pro Richard Ellis explains in this golf video tip.
Adopt the feeling you achieve in this drill in your normal putting stroke and you won’t fear those knee-knocking putts any more!
