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Pierre Le Chef

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Bonjour mes amis,

I am new to Australia and new to the game of AFL, but am interested to find out more.
I moved to Sydney last year from Quebec, Canada.

I have not yet attended a live game, but if I am lucky I may see a game during the semi finals?

Australians are crazy about this sport yes? :D

votre ami,
Pierre
 
Sorry, no semi's are being played in sydney this year, guess you'll just have to wait. And yes, we love our footy!
 
Bonjour Pierre! Welcome to Oz.

Our friend "Cat" has kindly informed you that "le football australien est le sport le plus populaire en australie."

He was perfectly correct if he was talking about crowd attendances. I once read that Touch Football is the most PLAYED football code in Australia. This would surprise most people but it is very widely played by teams of men,women,men+women, boys and girls from ages 7 to70.
It is not so widely played in Victoria, in fact I've never seen a match.

I tried in vain to get details from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. However,you may find the follwing figures for 2002 interesting.




PARTICIPATION IN MAIN SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Walking for exercise was the most popular of all sports and physical activities with Australians aged 18 years and over. Over 3.6 million Australians walked for exercise during this period; a participation rate of 25.3%. Aerobics/fitness and swimming had the equal second highest numbers of participants, both having 1.6 million participants and a participation rate of 10.9%. Golf also attracted over one million participants (1.1 million or 7.5%) during the 12-month period. Participation in yoga (311,000 people) was slightly higher than in Australian Rules football (307,900 people).

Almost twice as many females (2.4million) walked for exercise in the 12-month period than males (1.3million). Participation in Australian Rules football was dominated by males (297,700), with only 10,100 females participating in this sport. Similarly male participation in golf (890,300), cricket (indoor and outdoor) (466,900) and fishing (437,500) was much higher than participation in these sports by females (193,300, 36,500 and 70,600 respectively). Female participation in netball (389,400), yoga (266,200) and dancing (206,400) was much higher than that by males (65,500, 44,900 and 48,000 respectively).

Activities that were more commonly undertaken in an organised capacity included: lawnbowls (99.0% had participated in some organised lawn bowls); hockey (92.8%), rugbyunion (92.7%) and baseball (92.6%). Activities such as walking for exercise (95.4%), cycling (91.0%) and swimming (88.7%) were more commonly undertaken in a non-organised capacity (without the aid of a club, association or other organisation to organise participation in the activity). A more even split between organised and non-organised participation was a feature of activities such as golf (50.3% was organised), ten pin bowling (48.2%) and horse riding (47.4%).
 

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Cat_flying_high said:
Bonjour Pierre!

Il n'y a aucun doute que le football australien est le sport le plus populaire en australie. J'espere que tu serai fana du West Coast! :D

-cat
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Mon grand-pere m'a dit que le sport etait une religion en Australie, peut-etre il a raison!

Thankyou all for the warm welcome. I am saddened that I won't see AFL game in Sydney this year.

It seems many sports are popular here. I have seen league and maybe will try to understand cricket?
My favourite sport back home was hockey, you would call it ice hockey yes?

And Australia has very good beer! :)

votre ami,
Pierre
 
You idiot Unleaded. If you were any dumber you would be getting nails hammered into you.

Go into the room of mirrors and have a long hard look at yourself.
 

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