Now thats What I call Qatar 30 : Asia Games

Dear All,

The asia games has come and gone, and it has supposedly spurred Qatar to bid for the 2016 Olympics. So something must have gone right, well though the stadiums were never full (expect the ceremonies and the football final (and Khabadi events) the facilities on offer were very impressive!

After spending a whole day at the sports city for the asia games. I have to say its one of the best sporting events I have been to in my life! I saw wrestling,boxing,badminton(from a far), cycling(BORING), long jump,high jump, javelin and other athletics, and the best sport of all was Gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics to be precise it was jus awesome. Now I don't know if my admiration is coming from my dsypraxia roots but it was amazing!!

With regards to the media coverage, I was very disappointed/annoyed that the BBC barely covered it, I mean its trying to portray itself as a world leader in News, compete with CNN/Al Jerzaera (now)/Sky News(in Europe@least) however I witnessed much more coverage on those three channels than there was on the BBC, it was only because Iraq made it to the final that towards the end their was a little bit of coverage. Normally imp very passionate and proud of the BBC and believe the TV license is one of the best value Taxes that u have to pay in the UK(I know its not classified as a Tax as such but it really is as majority of people do have TVs so I kinda classify it as one!) however with this instance I was severely disappointed with them.

The tickets for the event were cheap though, which allowed almost everyone in Qatar to enjoy the events which was nice and when i mean cheap i really mean, it most events were between 5-20 riyals (so like less than 1GPB to 4GPB), and like i said the facilities were very impressive in the stadiums and generally the infrusctutre has had a massive uplift!

One of the funniest things is seein as it was the asia games, some ofthe events you could mistakenly think you were watching the Afrian games, as majority of the gulf countires all had african atheltes representing for them, its unbeliveable, i suppose its not too different to like the way college is in the US, in that it hires people to play for them, by like offering free education and stuff!

I met a another northerner there he was volunteering,was suprised when i heard by accent, which for some reason led me to become more northern in my accent, and then he became more northern yet neither of us ever acknolegdged the other was northern! But there were far too many volutnerrs and it led to chaos at times withpeople thinking they were more important than they were!

I saw another thing that disappointed me greatly, was in the football final the organisation was terrible people were cutting cues, pushing each other and was close to chaos. However one particular incident annoyed me so much, there was a Indian guy, who was in the queue and everyone was pushing and being pushed by the crown he happened to be near a fat African-American women (whom spoke Arabic) and was married to a white American guy, anyway, she accused the Indian guy of elbowing her, when it was clear that in that crowd no one could control their hand movements. And she told the police, the police subsequently arrested him and then her husband came and I thought common sense would pre-vail however the jackass goes if it wasn't for my wife and child here I would beat you up, or something ridiculous along those lines, which I couldn't believe, it really pissed me off, so I went to the police after the bitch and her knob of a husband left, and told them that the guy was innocent however the fcukin Arab police wouldn't listen to a Asian guy, and jus continued to hold the guy. It was so infuriating and made it hard to enjoy the match, I hope that guy is ok because he certainly didn't deserve to be in that situation.
Well though that soured the match and quality of football on show wasn't great the atmosphere was very impressive. I was sitting with the Iraqis and they made more noise despite being outnumbered 10 to 1 to the Qatari's. Overall though it was a fitting and fairly tale end to the Asia games.