Whinging Aussies

I must admit I love watching sport and it generally doesn't matter what sport (except Golf and Board Game 'Sports'). In saying that I have obviously been keeping up to date with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver through our local network broadcaster Channel Nine. That has been the problem with the Olympics, not the events, the results or the location, but with the broadcaster. Eddie McGuire is the main host and has been keeping Australian's up to date with his nightly re-cap program Vancouver Gold. Eddie is a great host and a mover and shaker in the media industry but at these Olympics he has led an annoying charge of whinging Australian's. Starting with the results in the Men's Freestyle Moguls, when the adopted Australian entry Dale Begg-Smith came second in the judged event. Eddie was jumping at the bit to explain his argument that we should have won, I don't remember whether Eddie was a moguls expert or not but he did claim that we should have won. Next complaint came from the Women's Aerial Jumping, which saw three Australians make it through to the finals, but with a low score outcome. One of the girls claimed the judges were being soft on scores for the Australians, even though she should have been happy with making it through.

As a proud Australian I have seen many wrong doings against us, including the dive by the Italians in the World Cup which cost us a chance at moving to the next stage. But I don't get on the microphone and whinge, because we should be a nation of accepting sports people. We should show the world we are gracious in defeat and that we are professionals who are happy to see the best on the day win.

Maybe if Channel Nine stopped constantly referring to Samsung and upcoming shows to air on the network, I would be a little less annoyed. I want more sport when watching the Olympics, and I don't care what countries win and whether an Australian is competing, I love seeing the World's best do their thing. And next time an Australian wins a medal, we don't need to see replays for the next four days, it gets old.