OzAurora
Refugee
Salome said:they should do a medal ranking per citizen of the competing countries instead of just per country
I wonder by how much australia would win that one
Yes this is so true, per capita, Australia is the most successful sporting nation in the world. Currently we are sitting at third on the medal tally behind 1.America: with a pop of more than 240million, 2.China: pop of 1 billion and then there is Australia: pop 20million...............
yes we are very cool, but I think it has a lot to do with our climate, look at the sports that we do well in swimming, our climate is designed for swimming and every child does swimming lessons in primary school and shit where I live, which has a population of about 200 000 there are 5 olympic size swimming pools and close to 20, 25metre pools, all of which are outdoor pools and then in the cycling, there are loads of open roads in Australia to go cycling on. We usually do well in sports that are outdoors, like tennis, cricket, rugby, cycling and water sports, but we seem to be not so great at the indoor ones....I think it is great how good we are, but then again anyone will atest to how much of a sports mad nation we are