India bribed 72 nations to get Delhi CWG: Report
India is alleged to have bribed 72 Commonwealth countries $0.1million each to get the hosting rights for the scandal-hit 19th edition of the Games which will start in Delhi from October 3-14, a media report claimed.
A report in an Australian newspaper claimed that Delhi pipped Hamilton in the bid after offering huge sums of money to the 72 Commonwealth countries during the final presentation in Jamaica. The report also said that Australia received a kickback of USD 125,000 from India.
Delhi sealed the right to host the Games when their delegates emerged at the final presentation in Jamaica and offered all 72 nations one hundred thousand dollars each for athlete training schemes if they were the successful bidders, the newspaper reported. The money, subsequently paid to all nations, was not significant to Australia because it had already decided to vote for India and the payment was not an exceptionally large one.
But for small nations who have minimal interest in the Games, it clinched their vote and India went on to beat Canadian city Hamilton 46-22 in the final poll. Hamilton had offered the nations about USD 70,000 each, it said. The newspaper also claimed that some countries’ which had supported Hamilton’s bid cried foul after India won the bid. Hamilton’s bid organisers, and many of the nations who voted for them, fired off angry protests about India buying votes and the bad blood generated between several feuding nations still exists, it said.
The Commonwealth Games Association has decided to ban 11th-hour inducements as a consequence of the outrage over India’s tactics. Australian Commonwealth Games Association president Sam Coffa also accepted that India offered money to get the Games. We had a situation where Asia has had the Games only once (Malaysia in 1998) and it was worthwhile going again, he said. Even though the Delhi Games organisers are battling against time to prepare the city for the mega-event, Coffa was hopeful about a successful CWG. He, however, came hard on the Commonwealth Games Federation for not taking up the matter, in regard to the city’s preparedness, with the organisers earlier.
I still think they can pull it off. If I have any regrets it is that the Commonwealth Games Federation did not act sooner. They were behind schedule quite a few months ago and it would have helped if they had gone to India to get things moving, Coffa said. Chairman of Hamilton bid Jagoda Pike also pounced on the opportunity and said the scenario would have been different if the Canadian city was awarded the hosting rights. I think you can safely say the kinds of issues they are experiencing wouldn’t have happened if it were here, Pike said.
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May 9, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Spain — A blown tire and the cunning resilience of Michael Schumacher thwarted McLaren’s impressive form at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton was positioned for a second-place finish before his tire blew out on the penultimate lap, while Schumacher held off overall Formula One leader Jenson Button in a battle for fourth.
Mark Webber led Red Bull to victory, while Hamilton’s exit promoted Fernando Alonso of Ferrari to second ahead of Sebastian Vettel, also of Red Bull. McLaren’s strong form yielded only 10 points.
“The car was handling well. I was great in second and it was looking like a great result for us, but it’s never over till it’s over,” Hamilton said. “It would have been perfect for the team but these things happen.”
Button was especially frustrated by Schumacher’s stubbornness as they dueled for fifth, with Button criticizing the seven-time champion for nearly causing an accident.
“I didn’t really know where he was on the outside of me into turn 1 and he turned in, and if I didn’t back out of it we would have crashed, so he didn’t really give me a lot of room there,” said Button, the defending F1 champion. “You’d think with his experience he’d know, but there you go.”
Button, who leads the field with two victories, stayed top of the overall standings. Hamilton went from three points back of his teammate in second to 21 behind in sixth place after another tire problem.
“I had a great race nice and constant and in control and cruising to the finish and something failed,” Hamilton said. “It’s probably my third or fourth tire blowout in my career in Formula One. It’s probably more than anyone’s had in their lifetime.”
Bridgestone said it was investigating the problem but that initial impressions suggested the accident was not caused by its tire. Hamilton was put on a three-stop pit strategy in Turkey in 2008 when Bridgestone couldn’t guarantee the safety of his tires for the expected two due to the pressure from his driving style.
Ron Washington
Ron Washington, the manager of the Texas Rangers, tested positive for 
cocaine in 2009, according to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman. “I did make a mistake and I regret that I did it. I am really embarrassed and I am really sorry … Any attempt to try to explain it is going to sound like excuses. There is no right way to explain something wrong, and I did wrong. Was it tension? Maybe. Anxiety?” The Rangers knew about the positive test, then decided not to fire him. Washington’s star outfielder, Josh Hamilton, is a recovering drug addict.
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Filippa Hamilton Photos
October 15, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Filippa Hamilton: Filippa Hamilton Photos, models that are controversial headlines for Ralph Lauren ad in which her body is seriously distorted in thin Bobble head shot from the company because of “too fat”.
Filippi, who was 5′10 “120 pounds, a size 4, is modeled on Ralph Lauren for eight years.
Announcement of the company, says 23-year-old was discharged from the inability to fulfill their contract obligations “They addressed the controversial Photoshopped image. Speaking of pictures was “mistakenly released and used department store in Japan and was approved image that ran in the U.S., we take full responsibility. This error has absolutely no connection with our relations with Filippi Hamilton.”
Cincinnati concerned about the impact on the image to the public. “I think I owe an apology to American women, big apology,” she said. “I am very proud of what looks like, and I think a model should look healthy.”
Filippa Hamilton Photos was first posted on October 15, 2009 at 7:59 am.
Guy Dupuy The Best Dunker In The World
Guy Dupuy The Best Dunker In The World,Guy Dupuy is 6′3 and 21 years old, originally from France now living in Florida, Guy Dupuy is part of an amateur group of dunkers known as Team Flight Brothers.
All we can say about Guy Dupuy after watching some of the film, is that he is amazing and that if he were a part of the NBA Jam or GEICO aka HORSE competition this weekend, his opponents would not stand a chance.
Guy Dupuy The Best Dunker In The World was first posted on September 9, 2009 at 8:54 am.
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Ultimate Bet Scandal latest updates
Ultimate Bet Scandal, Andrew Feldman and Bernard Lee features a segment with Seif talking about the AP Scandal and the contemporaneous Russ Hamilton/Ultimate Bet scandal. More updates coming soon.
Ultimate Bet Scandal latest updates was first posted on September 9, 2009 at 8:59 am.
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