Accommodation Issues for Athletes in Nagoya

Hello and welcome. As you can see, I'm actually doing this video from

my accommodation in Nagoya, and it's quite good.

To be honest, this is, this is perfectly fine.

I'm one of those lucky ones. I mean, accommodation has been an issue.

Accommodation has been an issue here in Nagoya, and you have seen

a lot of social media reports. People are writing,

documenting, putting out videos.

You have seen, uh, multiple videos.

Take a look at what Feroz Mirza, uh, has tweeted, for example.

What Varun Samyal has tweeted, for example.

People have had to wait for fourteen hours.

People have had to wait for seven hours and, and counting.

Uh, you know, before that also, a lot of people did not get

their rooms on time. Uh, there is a lot of chaos.

So let's face this, Nagoya is struggling.

Is struggling in terms of allocation of rooms. And why?

Because fifteen thousand people were scheduled to come originally,

officials

and athletes, and now seventeen thousand

are turning up or have

turned up, and they are not ready for it.

Uh, however much they are well-behaved and they are trying, but

clearly they are not ready to accommodate seventeen thousand people,

and that is the bare truth.

Now let's, let's look at the Indian contingent here.

Harmanpreet Kaur and Amol Mazumdar, I had asked both of them, uh,

in the media conference what, uh, experience they had in terms of

accommodation. Amol said that they had an absolutely

blemish-free check-in. Harman reiterated the same.

The women's cricket team came in two batches.

Amol Mazumdar said within half an hour they were checked in, they were all

done, and the rooms are nice, they are decent.

So he had absolutely no problems with accommodation.

Harmanpreet Kaur echoed the same, said much like what happens,

uh, back home or in different parts of the

world, where they are checked in within

half an hour, that's exactly what transpired here in

Nagoya.

So the Indian women's cricket team have had no issues.

But a- as far as the other Indian athletes

are concerned,

the story is not the same. The story is fundamentally

different. You have seen what Feroz Mirza has

tweeted, for

example. You have seen Varun Samyal's tweet where

he writes,

"Seven hours and counting." But I've also got to tell you this, that

Indian officials, and I will put it on record,

I spoke to Alaknanda Ashok, who was

at that point in time in the badminton team hotel, so

that she could check on the accommodation of the players.

She was shuttling as Deputy Chef de Mission from hotel to

hotel to try and check on the accommodation of the Indian players.

Sahadev Yadav, Alaknanda Ashok, Anjali Bhagwat, all of

them were trying to make sure that despite the scarcity of

rooms, despite all of the chaos that is going on here

in Nagoya, as far as Indian athletes are concerned, they should

be well protected or well cared for.

Now that's, that's a serious effort on the part of the

Indian management. Maybe, maybe that's why Amol

Mazumdar and Harmanpreet Kaur actually echoed that they did not

have problems. But the overall picture, uh, we met a

number of other athletes on the way, and there is serious apprehension.

If you read social media, whether it's the Koreans who have been

extremely vocal about the quality of accommodation, whether it's

some others, they've also been very, very vocal about the

quality of accommodation. And this is my final point.

Imagine had this happened in India.

Imagine when it happened with the Indian Open in January.

All of the athletes, I mean, all hell broke loose.

India was taken to the cleaners in front of the world.

You can't stage a tournament. Now, with so much happening

here in Japan, in Nagoya, where are the

questions from other athletes? Where are the questions?

Why are you being so patient? Why is it a case of double

standards when it happens to India?

Why is it that India is always put under intense

scrutiny, much more scrutiny than any other country?

I'm not saying don't be patient with Japan.

Absolutely be patient with Japan, because in a multi-discipline games like

this, you can't do much. Nagoya is not equipped to handle

seventeen thousand people. They are forced to handle that number now.

So clearly there will be chaos, and this is not gonna get solved in one

day.

It will take a couple of days for everyone to come in, and only then will you see a

solution. But when it comes to Delhi, I am sure you remember the

number of cr- critical, derogatory, negative tweets that

happened against India. That's a case of double standards as

far as I'm concerned. So when all hell breaks loose, uh, uh,

when it

happens in India, but when it comes to Japan,

you have to be patient.

It shouldn't happen like that. As far as we are concerned, like I said,

the

Revsports team is all settled, our accommodation is all fine, and we are

all geared up to coverage from here in Nagoya.

But as far as the athletes, from some, some Indian athletes and,

uh, and a lot of other athletes from other

countries, there is a lot of chaos.

But I have to give it to the Indian management, uh, under Sahadev Yadav,

PT Usha

and her team have come in last night.

There is a lot of effort, a lot of effort going in to ensure

that the

Indians do not struggle. So that's the picture as far as

accommodation

is concerned from here in Nagoya. Keep watching.

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