Now that the games are over I thought I would share what it has been like over here during the games.
The BBC coverage was good but heavily biased towards the Brits. For the most part, you needed to forget that there were events where British countries didn't place.
And the whinging about the Australian performances was upfront. The jealousy palpable. I found it frustrating to watch the coverage when apparently professional commentators were taking pot shots at the Aussies when they performed below expectations. To make themselves feel better the BBC team added the medals of all the British nations together so that they could compete with Australia, only they were still behind!
Then externally from the coverage, some of the locals complained about the tactics of the Aussies. How dares they focus on training hard in sports where they can win lots of medals. That's wrong! Well, if we didn't win the medals in swimming and cycling we still would have topped the table. It's pathetic that people can be so racist at an event that is supposed to be bringing countries together.
2 comments:
you should know by now that the poms are saw losers. you'll hear it again when we towell them up in the cricket next summer.don't forget who got the gold medal in the swimming relay a few years back when the aussie girls in celebrating their comprehensive victory jumped in the pool before the last competitors were finished& were subsequently disqualified. the poms!!
Hi
I alway knew the Poms were a bunch of whinges. I find it so funny that they had to add up the medals from all the countries in Great Britain to try and see if they could beat Australia in the medal count and they still could not.
The Brits I find are a bunch of sore losers half the time and when they can come to terms with Australia being a more superior country than them in sport and other walks of life, the better it will be for all involved.
Regards
Tim "The Tiger" Yates
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