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Opinion - Time for Aussie slide in Olympics

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Monday, August 25 2008 @ 02:44 am ACST

As expected, China has dominated the Olympics. Although the US won 10 more medals, China ran away with the medal leaderboard (generally based on gold not total) with 51 to the US on 36, Russian Federation on 23, Great Britain on 19, Germany 16, Australia 14.

That ranks as Australia's 3rd most successful Olympics, coming in 6th with 14 gold, 15 silver, 17 bronze, a total of 46 (5th highest, above Germany's total). The Aussie team was only better performed in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004).

Nevertheless, the calls have come thick and fast from the swimming and track and field officials calling for a major increase in funding. And the fact that the old rival Great Britain had the audacity to finish above the Aussies will no doubt be used to prod the Government into action - not quite losing the Ashes (cricket) but a source of potential shame anyway (despite GB having triple the population).

Still, so far the Federal government has suggested finding extra funding will be difficult. Perhaps Australia's good performance will make it easier for the Government to reject calls for more money. It will be interesting to see whether they can hold the line - perhaps being no where near a Federal election is bad timing for the Australian Olympic Committee.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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