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March 27, 2006

We are a sports mad country...

The late George Orwell said serious sport was "like war without the killing". In Australia its rather more like peace without the negotiations. In Melbourne, if we don't understand the sport, we'll watch anyway - and quite likely love it.

So, with these happy thought, I checked the final medal tallies.

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Australia	84	69	68	221
England	36	40	34	110
Canada	26	29	31	86
India	22	17	11	50

Which is not a bad haul for a country with a smaller population than Ghana.

Actually, if the Australian swimmers were to secede, they would have come fourth in the gold medal rankings (24).

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at March 27, 2006 09:28 AM

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