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I say good on her for coming home with a medal, more than some of the others did.
I think all go with the intention of winning medals, otherwise they woudnt train so hard, and thats what the olympics are about.

Yes, I think we have been jinxed, and I must say, I am surprised.
Being such a sporting nation, I thought we would have done better.
 
Bolt
Shows a good big man will beat a good small man
Would be a bit more satisfying if he would at least look out of breath...
 
Australians are still pre-eminent in the drinking stakes. Chad le Clos was lucky Nick D'Arcy wasn't there.

AUSSIES TEACH SOUTH AFRICAN A LESSON

Chad le Clos may have taught the Australian swimmers a thing or two in the pool but the Aussies reciprocated with a lesson of their own - drinking.

The 20-year-old South African, who won gold in the 200m butterfly, made a very late night admission while on the town in Last Lap nightclub that he had never consumed alcohol.

The Aussies were not sure if he was joking but he assured them he wasn’t. With smiles on their faces they told him they would show him how it worked and were last seen ordering up big and introducing him to a variety of beverages starting with a gold-coloured champagne mix.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/l...s-prince-william/story-fn9dheyx-1226443613633
 
Gold+Carbon+Tax.jpg :D
 
After a low medal count in Montreal, which I think was about 1974, the Govt increased resources and expenditure on sport in Australia. From what I've heard, this expenditure increased regularly from that date and then peaked in 2000. Thereafter expenditure has been in quite a decline, reflected in the medal count. Not that it bothers me either way, but there's a huge correlation between resource expenditure and medal count.
 
The number of medals we win is only important to the general public for two weeks every 4 years.
 
Miss Hale said:
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong Mr Burns, it's Tony Abbotts fault ;)
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Labor's answer to our propensity to run second is to hold...you guessed it...a review.:D No doubt, the review will be conducted by an "independent panel."

SPORTS Minister Kate Lundy says a post-Olympics review will examine how Australia can improve its performance in future Games after a less-than-impressive medal haul in London.

Senator Lundy today denied there was "a crisis in Australian sport" but agreed it was important for review and innovation to take place.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...ympic-medal-haul/story-e6frgdg6-1226443787985
 
Money would be better spent on the masses not the elite few.

As mentioned above, general public doesn’t care too much the other 200 or so weeks between Olympic Games.

Money could be better utilised on our bulging population, by trying to encourage all of us to some physical activity!

Not to mention that elite sport is not that healthy for the body anyway.
 
Gold! Tom Slingsby secures Australia's first individual gold
They did say this week we should get a few more -- its not over yet
Good on him.

LOL Mr Burns at that chart
 
Ground-breaking research there Burnsie.:)

Similarly, we see Germany well down the medals list with just 5 golds. This is clearly the result of the country's decision to move away from nuclear power and go back to coal.
 
Ah, every four years the world puts up delegates for the international pissing contest, AKA the Olympics. The delegates are a teensy few highly tuned, trained and often illicitly-drugged athletes who perform for the fat masses who use the contest as an excuse to spend even more time than usual sitting on the couch and get even fatter while living vicariously through their country's delegates, as though seeing someone physically elite who has the same (or often, pretends to have the same) nationality as themselves makes them somehow similar. The winners and losers are decided based on subtrivial differences in performance, and egos and economies respond tangibly. To add a bit more comedy, unhealthy fast food and confectionary companies target the morons and convince them to eat even more crap while this is happening! Eat the unhealthy food sold by foreign-owned countries to show your loyalty to Australia and her elite athletes! Wooo!

I watched a lot of one of the Olympic games on telly back in 1988 when I was a primary school kid, because at school they told us we should and I was somehow convinced that it was worth doing. At the end of it I remember realising what a stupid waste of my time it was, and never looked back.

I feel too young to be getting this old and cynical, but crikey, we are a stupid race.
 

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