Man, these Commonwealth Games suck!
I know it seems a bit strange to complain about my country winning medals, but seriously! Have you seen the medal tally?
Australia has twice the number of medals as India and is practically wiping the floor with Brittain and Canada. The other countries seem to be competing as some sort of rent-a-crowd.
I know we actually have an Institute of Sport, which basically means our government is paying money to develop supermen (and women), but we are doing so well in these games it's starting to get freaky.
Granted, a lot of athletes decided to give this one a miss for various reasons (at least partly to do with the fear of dying from some dissentry-like disease or from the stadium collapsing, or something), so maybe we would have more of a run for our money if everyone who could have come out to play actually did.
But, still.
I remember, during the last couple of Olympics, I actually got bored with Australia's acquisition of metalic decorations and found myself barracking for Estonia all of the time, as it actually felt like an achievement when we won something.
Australia? Winning's just something we do. It doesn't seem like we have to fight for it any more. I don't want to lessen the achievement of our athletes, who have worked really hard to be as good as they are, but it just doesn't seem like it's a real competition any more.
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