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XIX Commonwealth Games, Delhi, 3-14 October

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Paul Henry does have some history of passing such remarks, from wikipedia - In March 2009, Henry caused offence by pointing out the facial hair of female guest anti-nuclear campaigner and Greenpeace worker Stephanie Mills.[4] TVNZ received a "handful" of complaints to which Henry was unrepentant stating "I certainly have no intention of apologising to people who have written in and complained. The key thing to me is what a fortunate life they must have that they can afford time and energy to complain about such an insignificant thing." In August 2009, Henry referred to homosexuals as "unnatural" causing a complaint to be laid with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.[5] In February 2010 the BSA declined to uphold the complaint. In November 2009, Henry sparked controversy over comments he made about singer Susan Boyle and his on-air use of the term 'retarded' to describe her. His comments led to almost two hundred complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Authority, which regulates broadcast radio and television content within New Zealand.[6] In October 2010, Henry was again the subject of complaints, after questioning whether the Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand, was "even a New Zealander". He went on to ask "Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time ... are we going to go for someone who is more like a New Zealander this time?"[7][8] Sir Anand, who is of Indian descent, was born and raised in Auckland. Henry attracted criticism from public figures including Prime Minister John Key, whom Henry was interviewing when he made the remarks, Labour's leader Phil Goff and New Zealand's race relations commissioner Joris de Bres. Henry later issued a statement of apology for his comments.[7][9] After initially expressing its support for Henry, TVNZ announced the following day that it had suspended the presenter for two weeks without pay.[10]

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Though petitions are totally useless and waste of Internet bandwidth and my precious time :--D, you guys can fill this form http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fire-paul-henry/, found a FB page too dedicated to Paul henry http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ullu-ka-Patha-Paul-Henry-New-Zealand-Tvs-Host/139650739415183?ref=search Also the video has been covered by RayWilliamJohnson, Youtube's #2 most subscribed vblogger, expect the video count to go up from 100k to 500k in 48 hours.

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Indian men archery team now competing with England for Bronze.. the commentators are saying India and England top seed and second seeded team respectively .. WTF.. so they mean the 1st ranked and 2nd ranked team are fighting for Bronze and Aussies and Malaysia who were ranked behind went to the finals :headshake: Anyways it seems we will win this bronze but we should have won the gold if we were the top ranked team

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Sania Mirza also reaches finals of tennis... which means one medal in semis each for mens singles tennis as well women singles tennis as Somdev has already moved to finals a few hours ago The only disappointment was the Paes-Sania pair crashing out yesterday in mixed doubles as it was somewhat expected to clean sweep in tennis
Good news...One more medal confirm for Pakistan :yay:
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Pakistan didnt have good preparations due to lack of electricity at home. Some of our atheletes like Sania Mirza & one wrestler did well because they had power in their area. :king:
They shouldn't have been practicing at night in the first place. Sania Mirza is ours. You can claim her medal when she starts playing as Mrs Malik
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Feck the **** .. both Indian men mixed doubles pairs viz. Paes/Bhupati and Somdev/Bopanna crash out today from both semis .. WTF is this .. all Indian final was expected and both did **** .. not to mention that yesterday Paes/Sania were also kicked out .. it was expected that we would make a clean sweep of tennis especially in doubles with such a lot of Grand Slam winning doubles pairs ... but they did **** to be frank.. only two hopes of gold medals in tennis now .. Paes/Bhupati and to some extent Sania has really disappointed .. Somdev is rising day after day and best of luck to him

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Indian athlete wins another silver medal in gymnastic .. this is the same guy who won the bronze yesterday for us .. this guy is surely bringing unexpected medals for us in gymnastics .. hats off to the young lad :clap: 19 golds, 14 silvers and 11 bronze as of now

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