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    What Sports wil change for Delhi 2010 (XIX Commonwealth Games)

    Excellent move to drop basketball, what a joke that was, no competitive games until Australia met NZ in the final. Good idea to drop the triathlon, it requires a large body of clean water in which to hold the swimming leg, a Delhi triathlon involves a swim leg and then an ambulance leg as all...
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    Dame Edna's anti-americanism

    Taken from: http://consequently.org/news/2006/03/26/dame_edna_at_the_commonwealth_games_closing_ceremony/index.php But I think my favourite comment, "just five days ago Melbourne finished paying for the 1956 Olympics."
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    Women 4x400 - have the Aussies snatch the Gold via a technicality?

    Tamsyn did walk out in second place and then stopped in lane 3 or 4 to stretch her muscles. I think this was a deliberate tactic to see if the English girl would walk past. Australia only had 2nd place in the line because they were leading at the 200m mark, the English took over by 300m and...
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    Adjusted medal tally, Australia up 28%

    Australia won 82 gold and 207 medals at Manchester. However there were more medals awarded at Manchester, a lot more. 895 medals at Manchester compared to 743 at Melbourne, 282 gold compared to 245. So with the gold medal count dropping 13% an adjusted comparison sees Australia getting 71...
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    9's coverage= boring

    They go ad crazy in the last hour or two of evening coverage. Last night it was ad break, three lifts in the weightlifting, ad break, two gym routines, ad break. Once they move from attempts at live finals across to taped stuff they just pack the ads in there.
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    OT: Commonwealth Games Weight Lifting Commentary On 9

    Dean Lukin is doing a good job as well, he can match him for excitement when he wants to. Eastlake is a classic.
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    Australias men swimmers

    Interesting to compare to Manchester where both games had 42 events. Australian men Gold 17 down to 3 Silver 5 increased to 6 Bronze 2 increased to 8 Women Gold 10 increased to 16 Silver 8 increased to 12 Bronze 6 increased to 9 Obviously the gold drop off from (an incredible) 17...
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    Top 3 and bottom 3 countries

    Yah, they are not at the games, no wonder they are in my bottom 3 :). In my top 3 I am dumping India and promoting Papua New Guinea. Mens swimming gold medals (excluding EAD): Australia - 0 Papua New Guinea - 1
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    Any interest in the Games outside of Australia?

    Canada are bombing out badly in these games and it is no surprise that the public is losing interest. It is also a bad time zone for them. Huge coverage in England, big web site on the BBC with lots of updates and blogs and England, Scotland and Wales are all doing very well in these games to...
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    Top 3 and bottom 3 countries

    Since the Australian media are so obsessed with how Australia is doing at these games I invite you to nominate your top 3 and bottom 3 countries in these games as the tournament progresses. Top 3 Scotland. They go 6 gold in Manchester in what was virtually a home games, they already have 6...
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    games - waste of time ??

    Commonwealth games ODI cricket was a joke as it wasn't in the same class as a world cup. Twenty20 is more promising as the format fits well for a short tournament and it doesn't have an international tournament yet.
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    Jana Pittman.......champ, chump or drama queen?

    She is not actually saying anything to the media any longer, all the feeding frenzy is being generated by the media itself or by Tamsyn Lewis, who is using it to try and gain listeners to her radio show. We are all over Jana but the media keeps chewing on that bone. I think she is better off...
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    Why do we keep getting lied to?

    They are not revealing which footage is live and which is taped. They are heavily packaging the coverage to try and fit in all the finals. If you want true live events then you need to be either a Bigpond subscriber for the 8 online channels or a Foxtel subscriber for the pay channels. You...
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    why is Australia so good at sports?

    Funding, funding, funding. Australians love playing sports and have the climate for it and when you combine that with generous sports funding, including the instititute of sports in various states, that gets your results. In the US they are funded by the college and university system on top of...
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    What do you think of the official Melbourne 2006 website?

    I must admit I am not a fan. I have found it almost impossible to find results due to the excessive amount of clicking required. Unless I am missing something I can see no link anywhere on the site that shows you all results for a particular sport. Instead it shows a long list of meaningless...
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