For those who find a sense of relief must be those with a short memory and cannot remember or are not old enough to remember Olympics before Atlanta in 1996. From Atlanta onwards Australia had a very good run and with a home ground advantage in 2000, a lot of funding and effort went into our athletes. Similar to what we are seeing from Great Britain at the current games. With exception of the Melbourne Olympics (another home ground advantage) Australia never reached double digits in the gold medal tally until 2000. In the history of the games Australia has an average of 5 Gold, 5 Silver & 6 Bronze, so when you consider Australia is an almost certainty to get another medal for the Men's 470 in the sailing and the Kookaburra's are in hot form then the current tally of 4 Gold, 12 Silver & 9 Bronze is above average. Maybe if the media didn't focus on the swimmers so much we might realise how well some of our athletes are actually doing in the games and the standards of the competitors they are up against.
Another point of debate that is growing more and more is the irritating presence that is Eddie McGuire in commentary. When you listen to this idiot prattle on for two or more hours as they cover the marathon and the triathlon, you have to wonder how in earth this idiot got a gig anywhere in sport. No matter what he talks about there is no real evidence that he actually cares about what he is talking about and the emotion comes across very fake. Half the time I think the room he is sitting in has been cleared out by all the production crew and he just prattles along talking to the mirror they have set up in front of him. It is time that Channel Nine kicked him back to Collingwood and told him to never surface again for the sanity of all sports lovers.
Now for some lighter moments
How not to lift the weight....
John Hopoate is now coaching wrestling
Give her heaps because....
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