ccton

Now Oz has taken 17 golds, it's hard to believe a nation has only 20 million people can reach this high.

Who can give a reason?

Arron

Pride over personal gain methinks.

Grayling

Siren & Brian

Did we get a GOld medal for sleeping too?

kong

Beacause it is such a dull, boring backwater. There is absolutely nothing to do in Aus except play/watch sport

Siren & Brian

And whats wrong with that?

Grayling

Probably

Siren & Brian

Damn we are good

Grayling

Per population The Bahamas are top of the medal list.
Best live there methinks

G

Siren & Brian

Personally dont think it matters whose on top, but just giving it your all, thats what makes you proud to be an Aussie

bondipom

It was expected. 5th place would have been considered a poor performance.

Reasons

Second largest team in the Olympic games and per head of population one the best best funded teams in the games. No fluke and Oz is not a battler nation when it comes to sport.

Wish I had a dollar for everyone that says to me "considering out population Australia does so well at the Olympics. I'd be well on my way to affording a house.

Siren & Brian

woohoooo we r coming 3rd then and beating the Yanks.... but the Bahamas are going to win

Badge

Your talk of size of the team reminded me - the other day I was thinking - people complain about the Aussie biased coverage but arguably its because there are so many Aussies competing in popular sports.

The UK televises Pinsett/Redgrave (in 2000) et cetera at the expense of say the Bahamas winning something, because that will interest the UK public. So maybe likewise, Aussies showing aussies just reflects the size of the [competitive]Aussie team?

Sure, there is bias, but that's the thing. The Yanks have the same problem - a huge team with every chance of success too.

bondipom

It just shows Channel 7s desire for ratings by drumming the jingoistic beat.

walla

Now Kong that's not right. It's all down to investment something the Brits have little of except for the recent introduction of lotto cash and that cash is spent on gadgets for our prima donnas, check Jacksons article in the locker room. British athletics in general is a shambles.

We have one decent velodrome (thanks to the Commonwealth games) and a couple of olympic size swimming pools, how can our athletes compete at world level without the tools?

Yes Kelly is an exeption but where does she train? Spain and South Africa. And our relay team? Mainly Australia. Both took golds as you know.

This country is a shambles when it come to sport. I'm gonna get off my high horse now coz I could write all day about this subject.

BTW this thread should be in the locker room.

Walla