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Do they really take their darst that seriously they would get cut about it?

Apparently they don't really care about the cricket or rugby because its not Fotball.

And as if we have any hope of beating the poms in that!

But the gold medals per capita is kind of cool hey. We would own the Olympics with US population.. Ofcourse, we would probably have all their social problems too....

Now chaps, don't let's forget that the Bahamas topped that particular table with a whopping 315 Gold medals per 100 million population (with their single Gold in the women's 400m).

And don't mention the darts!! Or the rugby tests earlier this year for that matter. Jolly rum do that.

From a pom enjoying another rare win at a sport we invented.

I'll have you know that some of us consider cricket and rugby to be the *only* sports worthy of consideration. So I couldn't care less how many bloody golds you won. ;-)

bq. Apparently they don’t really care about the cricket or rugby because its not Fotball.
And as if we have any hope of beating the poms in that!

Eh!!!

Australia *has* beaten England at _Soccer_!

3-1 No less!

2 years ago.

And England werent playing their B-team either....
It was a sound, undisputable beating.... that got... quietly... forgotten...

bq. Bahamas topped that particular table

I think that for these stats to be meaningful, you have to eliminate any country with population under 1 million. :-)

-Nick

Mike.

Developed nations have other things to take pride in apart from Sport.

We leave that to the Chinese and Australian to keep you happy while your developing.....

Steady on, it was only a one-day international. Not real cricket. If and when England win a Test series against Australia (a feat not achieved since 1986) I may be forced to admit that they can play.

I'm English, and yes we are shit at sports. I've given up on football. It was gettting too depressing. Italia '90 - heartbroken by ze germans. Euro '96 - heartbroken by ze germans. France '98 remembered only for Beckham's tantrum. It's always disappointment after disappointment - so I gave up. You're right, we don't give too much of a shit about Cricket and Rugby. Football is what counts really. Not bad at darts and snooker - not really sports though are they? We're good at drinking though (mind you so are you aussies). We drink to numb the pain from the football scores.

I for one thought Australia looked a little silly sending such a huge team to Athens (the 2nd largest IIRC), and felt slightly embarrassed by the hysteria surrounding our "hero" atheletes and their record swag of medals.

As a sports-mad country we spend an amazing amount of money in the pursuit of olympic gold medals (nearly as much as the total spend by Britain and Canada combined). The dividends of that spend shouldn't really be a surprise - it's the result of a carefully coordinated program thats been in place for the last 20 years. I am left wondering whether the short-term burst of national pride (not to mention the long-term personal gain for the lucky few gold medalists) is really value for money. At $A4.8 million per medal, maybe our priorities are a little skewed?

"Olympic medals or long life: what’s the bottom line?"
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/180_02_190104/mit10271_fm.html

You do know that Cricket is not a real sport, right? It's just an intermediate form on the way to Baseball.

I mean really, any game that can go on for 3 days... how can you take that seriously?

Baseball, Basketball, and, grudgingly Soccer (Football to you I suppose) are the real sports... Now if the US could just win it's own sports...

Where's Australia, anyway? I found Canada on a map once, but that was hard enough ..

How would the medal statistic work for a country
like India :-) ?

As a genuine Brit living in the US I can say without fear or prejudice that if that beating Oz at anything is fabulous, any yes that football result was the B team, Sven has never played an A team yet.

As for Jasons comments about baseball & basketball, don't make me laugh, they're only played properly in the USA and basketball has to be the most boring sport imaginable, boing, boing, score... boing, boing, score.... boing, boing, miss, oh my gaaaaaaaddddd, he missed.

P.S. As for the Olympics, what a farce. Get back to the orignal sports and then we'll get interested.

Cricket can go for 5 days Jason. It's 10000 times the sport that baseball will ever be.

As for Soccer (no Jason to an Aussie it's Soccer), it's a game played by girlie men. No no I take that back I mean it's a game played by 22 hairstyles organised 11 hairstyles to a team. You can fall to your knees and appeal for a penalty if you think your hairstyle is messed up by a hairstyle from the other team. The most important parts of the coaching and off-field staff are the Hairdresser and Stylist.

Test cricket goes on for up to five days, and it's usually a draw. It's a sport that the instant-gratifiaction-addicted Americans will *never* understand. And that's A Good Thing.

no.

It's as simple as that.

bq. Developed nations have other things to take pride in apart from Sport.

You mean like enjoyable weather?
Beaches with sand?
Trains that run in Autumn (despite the falling leaves)
More tha 6 inches square of free space?
Spice Girls?

Hmmm, I want to live in a developed country...
(oops, I do...)

What I'd like to see is a list showing the original nationality of the Australian Olympic athletes and how long they've held their Aussie passports. Huh? Huh?

Prestige buyers I say, the whole lot of you!

What's that? No, I will NOT say how many medals South Africa won, nor where our Olympic swimming team members train. >|(

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