Check out the wonderful pics which Media didn't care to show. They only showed the bad things! Here is the real beauty - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=289638&id=7319903884&fbid=469892953884
Ne they showed some good things to . Still 5 days until the start and more and more athletes are running away . They will be probably the worst games in history .
Actually, some of the negative reporting done was indeed quite exaggerated, and some completely false - particularly a sting operation by an Australian news channel whose reporter claimed to have walked into the main Games stadium with a bag of explosives. See it debunked on ABC's mediawatch: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3023099.htm Having said that, the politicians & bureaucrats in-charge of indeed pocketed huge sums of taxpayer's money..and their shoddy planning has led to pathetic delays. But things seem to be falling into place...for now.