By: RRM
It always seems sad to me when the ‘medals per capita’ thing gets brought out. As though slobs like me sitting on the couch watching are in some way meaningful to what individual athletes achieve…
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Zapper: Ummm, sadly, no, we’ll revert to our usual position within the Australian psyche – a source of annoyance, envy and the butt of jokes. In a word ‘baaaaa’. Says it all really.
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Yeah I wasn’t serious Komata. On the first couple of days when Australia had 1 gold, we had none and they thought they had heaps more on the way in the pool, they were already ridiculing our team over...
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I saw Keeping Stock had a great photo – Silver is the new gold: http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/the-new-gold.html
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To be fair, they probably think this is a bit of a joke – since they really are doing badly by their standards. I don’t find Aus worrying about NZ that much. It’s kind of a big brother / little brother...
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By: TimG_Oz
They’ve been doing it all week. Yesterday they printed “Silver is the new Gold” and put the list in the order of Silver, Gold, Bronze. Today they compared Australia to each of the separate British...
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Oops .. Aussie swimmer lost out on Gold because she had a stripper pole in her house http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/london-olympics/stephanies-stripper-pole-revelation/story-fncv50gj-1226444600844...
View ArticleBy: RRM
It always seems sad to me when the ‘medals per capita’ thing gets brought out. As though slobs like me sitting on the couch watching are in some way meaningful to what individual athletes achieve…
View ArticleBy: Komata
Zapper: Ummm, sadly, no, we’ll revert to our usual position within the Australian psyche – a source of annoyance, envy and the butt of jokes. In a word ‘baaaaa’. Says it all really.
View ArticleBy: Zapper
Yeah I wasn’t serious Komata. On the first couple of days when Australia had 1 gold, we had none and they thought they had heaps more on the way in the pool, they were already ridiculing our team over...
View ArticleBy: Michael
I saw Keeping Stock had a great photo – Silver is the new gold: http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/the-new-gold.html
View ArticleBy: PaulL
To be fair, they probably think this is a bit of a joke – since they really are doing badly by their standards. I don’t find Aus worrying about NZ that much. It’s kind of a big brother / little brother...
View ArticleBy: TimG_Oz
They’ve been doing it all week. Yesterday they printed “Silver is the new Gold” and put the list in the order of Silver, Gold, Bronze. Today they compared Australia to each of the separate British...
View ArticleBy: TimG_Oz
Oops .. Aussie swimmer lost out on Gold because she had a stripper pole in her house http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/london-olympics/stephanies-stripper-pole-revelation/story-fncv50gj-1226444600844...
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