We do compared to our competitors with even GB (25 million quid) dwarfing our budgetnot as if we put peanuts into the swim team, anyway.....
Australian swimming was relatively crap for a while before Atlanta then Sydney.the men have sucked for years its no surprise
Yep. When ian Thorpe of Bankstown breaks records at 16 he's a gun. When a bird from Beijing does it she's a doper.So that Chinese swimmer is under as much focus now as the South African runner was a few years ago just because she is brilliant.
She was thinking of you and took her mind off the jobSee that's what happens when I support someone.
She's only humanShe was thinking of you and took her mind off the job
I still couldn't find the right word for it. Demagoguery isn't a word I'd use in everyday conversation and not one which fits perfectly either, so I think we need a new word.Yep. When ian Thorpe of Bankstown breaks records at 16 he's a gun. When a bird from Beijing does it she's a doper.
Which ties in with Uve's point about swimming coverage here - he's right. Very jingoistic and a lot of chest thumping. Which is funny, because most all of our recent swimming champions have been very humble people.