Is Channel 9 not an Australian TV channel for Australian people living in Australia
I agree the coverage is biased, but how can you expect anything any different, you wouldnt expect to watch the beeb and spend the whole time seeing Aussies would you.
The public are generally interested in who wins and where people they know come, Australia have won most things worth winning and the rest of the coverage has largely been spent covering Aussies, as this is what Australians want to see.
There not going to be interested in whether Daley Thompson has won the decathlon or not are they

When's it all over?

Any sport events always like that, and if an aussie loses you have to endure the news opening headline as Darleene Ramsey aussie gold medal olympian tragically struck from the games and now in hospital with a cold sore

Did you not know the Aussies were sport obsessed before you got here.......?

My hubby is an aussie and has always commented on the bias in the UK sports coverage of such events (he lived in UK for nearly 20 years). Every country does it.

There was a lovely interview with David Davies (Welshman) when he thrashed the opposition in the pool the other day - and they showed the medal ceremony.

The games'll be over soon. World Cup soon - can't wait.

I did wonder that too - how would an Aussie athlete & their family & friends feel if they trained & worked their guts out for years & years to get to be good enough to compete somewhere like the Commonwealth Games & then to not have their moment recorded & televised because Channel 9 was showing the medal ceremony of a guy from Bangladesh who got Bronze in something we dont even compete in? Just like Scossie was getting his knickers in a knot because they didnt show the scottish swimmer guy's medal ceremony, Im an aussie & Id be cheesed off if they showed that & not some aussie athlete competing.

Of course the telecast will be mostly about Aussies - just remember too how many Aussie althletes are competing, how many medals we have won & how much telecast time they actually have!

Blimey is he still in it Used to fancy the socks off him Don't mind so much them showing the medal ceremony for each and every Aussie, but it would be nice to see the ceremony if another nation won something, but Aussie's came second or third, that way, the Aussie would still be on screen but we might here another national anthem. Nice to see the English whip the Aussie backsides at lawn bowls though

I'd like to see the guy from bangladesh who cares if the aussies were not in that one its the commonweath games not the aussie games. Besides the guy from bangladesh is probably an amazing athlete as he wouldnt have had zillions of dollars pumped into his training, I think the people from those countries should be shown, anyone can win if they spend enough money, nope Go bangladesh

Gobsmacked to see a WELSH medal ceremony last night. Do you think they are getting the message - or did I get it wrong. Were they actually AUSSIES representing Wales and thats why we got to see it !!!!!!!!!!!

Well go to Bangladesh then, Im sure they will show all the Banglasdesh efforts & medals over there .

The coverage on Channel 9 is AUSTRALIAN media, showing AUSTRALIANS cos we live in AUSTRALIA. Well how surprising - go figure!!

I'm surprised this is even up for discussion quite honestly. Its not rocket science!!

Obviously it is for some :scared: .

how can the uk be sports biased we arnt any good at anything and anyway we only invented the commonwealth games and cricket to keep those dam colonials happy while we where busy plundering all the mineral wealth dont you know old chap

i think its a case of being genuinely interested in other people and not just whats happening on home soil. i agree with the fact that we should be able to see the likes of bangladesh and all the other countries with very small amount of athletes - regardless of whether they win or not. It is a great achievement for them.

Everyone has missed the point, we know its biased & you cant expect it to be otherwise! And no-one has answered my question - given the huge amount of aussies competing & the limited telecast time, how do you think an aussie athlete & all their family/friends/supporters etc would feel if, what is effectively probably the biggest efforts of their life, was totally ignored in their home country & channel 9 televised an athlete from another country receiving a medal instead of the aussie competing?

If the BBC failed to telecast any of the UK athletes competing or winning medals in the commonwealth games or Olypmics, you'd all be jumping up & down .


BTW, in case you didnt realise - it's all happening on home soil, just more home for some than others .

i was only taking the mickey ,the fact is the australians are sport mad and are absolutely devastated if they come second the news is from the uk in general they couldnt give a monkeys and if australia wasnt winning everything in sight they wouldnt give a monkeys either and i do personally think it is shameful that they dont seem to be giving anybody else a look in in regards to interviews etc but to be honest really what do you expect .What i find even more shameful from a australian perspective is they cant wait to report on how charitable they have been to these poor nations in regards to giving them running gear and such like ,really giving themselves a pat on the back .well i suppose self praise is better than none