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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

AusZealand hits the top ten!

Nice to see that Australians, or some Australians at least, have retained a sense of humour over their athletes unexpectedly poor gold medal haul.

Sick of seeing Australia so far down the medal table,  in yesterday’s Sydney Daily Telegraph a new nation appeared called AusZealand, allowing Australia to “co-opt” New Zealand’s gold medals for their own.

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Meanwhile, the Sydney Morning Herald has started to refer to the success of something called Team Oceania.

I hope the sense of humour continues.

It’s better than the gnashing of teeth, which is all that can be heard in the Melbourne papers.

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1 comment:

  1. PaulB7 Aug 2012, 09:40:00

    Peter Fitzsimons has also taken the lighthearted approach - good on him:
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/opinion/7423476/Aussie-view-Silver-is-the-new-gold-in-London

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