Loch Lomond

Australia 19th an' thos bluudy poms in 4th.
Really, what has gone wrong?

Kim67

Terrible results for Australia, worst in 20 years. Maybe it's the new breed of parents that constantly blow wind up their offsprings backsides how they're the best thing since sliced bread and are invincible that are to blame. Let your kids live in the real world and teach them how to deal with disappointment I reckon. To me it's great to see Darcy bomb, arrogant, spoilt little turd should never have been let back on the team. About time we went back to the attitude of swimmers like Duncan Armstrong who came from nowhere and won gold with humility and good grace.

DeadVim

A combination of:

Not fast enough
Not strong enough
Not accurate enough
Not enough bottle

Just a guess

Go the Kiwis!

DadAgain

Isn't it great to see them 8 places above Australia on the medal table!

DeadVim

I honestly take no pleasure from it.

(behind back )

commonwealth

cos the poms get the gold and the ossies get the 1st loser medal (silver)

ozzieeagle

"About time the poms actually won something"

This is causing a lot of angst here.

bcworld

Angst is a good word for it! I'm currently working in the offices of a national sporting organisation and the angst every morning is palpable! Mind you, it all went a bit quiet yesterday morning...I think radio silence has been established!

ozzieeagle

I'll see how many quotes I can remember from my Aussie friends and acquaintances over the next week or so and post them.

The problem for me with this debacle, the only sure thing that will happen out of this in Melbourne at least, is 100 pct focus on AFL... and thats one sport I cannot get along with.

It's going to be AFL AFL AFL from now on, until someone somehow gets some international success somewhere. Only possible respite from my personal viewpoint is if Melbourne Victory (or Heart I guess *spit*) have a good season and put another sport back in the limelight.


We're very likely headed for particuarly one eyed and insular parochial times dammit.

DeadVim

Not cricket fans then?

I have been quoting from The Courier Mail (I know, but it's a limited choice here) just to annoy the OH.

Apparently some women are going to 'lead the rush for medals', 1st and 2nd loser medals I presume.

DeadVim

But oh so much more fun.

John Mc

Channel 9's coverage of the Olympics has been utterly horrendous. I went into this Olympics genuinly hoping the Australian's did well. After watching only Australian athletes, they do know on channel 9 there are more conutries involved right, I'm taking more and more pleasure in their failures

Go TeamGB! Beating the Aussies into Silver in so many events is hilarious

Zen10

It's because they only show results and immediate to build ups to results, because all they're interested in is winning and results, not events for themselves. This is why you get to see 20 seconds of discus to see who qualified, or 60 seconds of swimming to see who won, and never a whole event. Another problem is that a good half of every hour is commercials, so there is very little time actually to show a whole event, even if the will was there.

ProudVIC

Huge beat up....

14 medals at around the halfway point of competition is hardly an abysmal or embarrassing performance. Everyone just focuses on the gold as if it is the only thing that counts, 9 silver medals is nothing to be sneezed at and in many cases there really isn't much in it between silver and gold.

BTW, Australia is an excellent chance for another 5+ gold.

I can still see Australia winning 6 or 7 gold medals along with a silver tally in the double figures. It's not as good as the past few Olympics but you have to be delusional to say it is a total embarrassment. Case in point, a comparable country (population wise) like Canada has no gold and only half the medals of Aus.

ProudVIC

Well, it's an Australian broadcast what do you expect? Do you think they are going to be showing all the UK competitors instead? Most Australians want to see Australian athletes competing and the TV networks have to provide what the viewers want in that regard.

I thought this was just common sense.