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rajiv

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  1. Reading over this topic reinforces my firm impression that Australia and Australians are not particularly liked by many on this site
  2. I think the main point is that Australia wants marketable home games which mean something and can draw a crowd When in Oceania they had one every four years-the inter continental playoff for the World Cup ie one game where they could fill a stadium Now New Zealand has replaced Australia as the" superpower " of the South Pacific and will now get an automatic place at every FIFA tournament(where they vie for last place) Means plenty of trips for the NZ suits and FIFA money If FIFA is intent with giving a very soft place at every tournament surely it would make more sense to give it to a billion population country like China or India Oceania has only 2 members with over a million people-NZ has 5 million people
  3. Ski Mountaineering looks pretty spectacular. However, any sport/ event where 90% + of the competitors/medallists are from the one continent really shouldn't qualify for Olympic inclusion. The Olympics shouldn't be another Continental Championship. There must be a significant element of universality
  4. I've long noted a strong anti Australia attitude on this site Guess they are the obvious target for many users who resent the large teams Australia qualifies for Olympics or maybe it's just Europeans being European and pessimistic about everything and looking for someone to vent their anger on Americans of course see all non Americans (aliens?) as inherently inferior
  5. I've long held the view that there should be a transparent objective system to make these usually contentious decisions. I would grant the Games to the country which has won the most medals since last hosting (guess this would be Germany or Hungary but I haven't checked) And by "grant" I mean that they have first refusal rights. Maybe this means some regions would never host so I would allow nations to effectively "donate" medals to another country so that for instance ,there could be an African Games if that was widely approved of. No country deserves the Games just because they claim "it's our turn" when it really isn't
  6. This a very Eastern Europe view Grand Slam events are the much bigger deal in the rest of the world All the Commo countries considered the Olympics the be all and end all.They were (are?) of the view that Olympic medal counts are everything in sport The Berlin Wall was toppled in 1989 by the way
  7. Yeah like ethe wintersport schedule is such a big deal in an Australian January Over half of singles games are 1st round-64 of 127- so it makes sense to spread them over 3 days (including a weekend day)
  8. Is there any event where you don't think Canada is an outside chance of a medal?
  9. Just for the record Oceania wins more Olympic medals than Africa. So I guess Africa is the weakest continent overall. Hard political sell these days though. Oceania is hopeless at all the combative sports however. (and there are so many medals in this grouping) Australia and NZ are very good at water sports In fact I'd say that they are ordinary in all gymnasium indoor sports. To them sport is an outdoor activity
  10. I'm aware there is competition among some between baseball and cricket as to which is the more international game. Judging by what an absolute joke some of these so called national baseball teams are I call no contest I bet there are more than a few players who have never set foot in the country they represent
  11. So Eurocentric In the real world Australia is always in the top 10 but not apparently in the Totallympics world
  12. Bring in a rule that the number of Winter events cannot be more than 20% of the number of Summer events . At the moment it's about a third , Before WWII the ratio was about eight to one . This seems about right but nowadays TV ( mainly NBC ) want lotsa content so would be difficult to so drastically cull events Nothing, however, to stop many of the events being renamed demonstration events . Some , like female ice hockey , really aren't international events at all . Some winter medals have similar status to summer medals but not very many
  13. This is a super expensive sport to train for OK running swimming and perhaps shooting may be manageable But people from the wrong countries need to go abroad to master fencing ( even a country like Australia doesn't do fencing ) and anything to do with horses costs big money May have made some sense when competitors were Army Officer cadets last millennium Just another sport where money is everything ( and GB has the biggest budget for all these low hanging fruit sports )
  14. Greece wasn't also so pure I think Greece chased Mark Philippoussis ( tennis ) and Lydia Lassila ( aerial skiing ) to represent Greece
  15. Nine of the top 10 are countries who you would expect to be there and usually are there Netherlands is the other country who had a great games I had once expected Sth Korea to become a more or less ongoing top 10 country but they have fallen way back The Eastern European countries which used to be in the top 10 now devote less resources for both Olympic sport and doping than they did in their glory days. They aren't coming back In terms of top 5 there are always USA , China and Russia . GB sees itself as permanently belonging to this group Well good luck with that . It costs a lot of money to be in the top group which some people may consider excessive given the size of the UK economy . I can't help thinking it's spending money on elites at the expense of kid's sport and community well being . The Nordic countries have a much healthier and active population than the UK but win far less medals . I know which I prefer but Britons prefer their sport to be something you watch on TV rather than something you might do yourself I think European countries put too much emphasis on bringing in migrants to to do their elite sport for them ( rather like USA brings in migrants to win them Nobel Prizes ) Seems so much like football teams buying players to me But, heh , it's their country
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