Badminton Event Controversies in India and Japan

You know, if you remember, two thousand twenty-three,

Nozomi Okuhara, who all of us will remember from Rio,

Sindhu

beat Nozomi Okuhara in that semifinal to make the final and

assure India of that silver medal. One of the legends of badminton.

She reached Cuttack to play that tournament in India,

and she was not given a pickup or for whatever reason, she

did not inform the Indian authorities. There was a lot of misunderstanding.

Nozomi Okuhara was not given a pickup in Cuttack to

go to her hotel.

And the next morning, she wanted to go and train at eight AM in the morning.

There was no shuttle.

All hell broke loose. She posted on social media.

If you remember Cuttack, she posted on social media and

all hell broke loose. India can't organize events.

India can't do something better. India can't even do the

basics right. And that tweet generated world

attention that how can a country as big as India, which is

aspiring to be hosts of the Olympic Games, how can they make a mess

like this? And Okuhara's tweet went viral.

Now, we are in Japan. We are in

Nagoya. And look at what is happening in Nagoya.

Even the Japanese athletes have complained that men and

women have been given the same room to share in that, in that cruise ship.

Multiple occasions have come to light where Japanese athletes and local

athletes have complained that men and women have been

given the same room. They are now searching for alternate

accommodation.

We have seen Feroz Mirza's tweet. We have seen Varun Samyal's

tweet. We have seen athletes having to wait for

eight, ten,

twelve, fourteen hours to get a room.

We have seen people saying, "Oh, seven hours and counting." We have

seen umpteenth number of instances, Korean athletes complaining about the

size of beds. We have seen basketball athletes

complaining about the

size of beds. Clearly, there are enormous number

of problems here in Nagoya. Now, how many people from

Japan will Nozomi Okuhara speak up and say that, yes,

these things can happen, and what she did in twenty nineteen--

twenty twenty-three rather, was unfair.

What was done to India was actually unfair.

These things can happen, and we are not complaining.

We too have our teething issues here, but that's not something to complain.

It will happen. If you are doing a multi-discipline games of this

magnitude and scale, things will happen.

So why is it a case of double standards and pinpointing when it comes to India?

Why is the scrutiny much more intense when it comes to India?

Why is it that India will always be this punching bag and people will

come a ton of bricks on India? Why? That is the question

to ask, and that is what we will ask.

We've got no problems with Nagoya.

We know things will happen, things will get better.

We've got no issues with that.

But we will have issues if there are cases of double standards going

forward. If India is picked on, we will not stay quiet.

And that's the most important point we are trying to make.

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