Taking drugs is cheating, which i would say the opposite of competitiveness.
Pushing opponents off a track, yeah maybe. Surely that is penalised though?
Verbally abusing opponents, totally fine. :) (Heat of the moment? Penalised?)
Win at all costs, totally fine :)

Isn't verbal abuse called slating something in which the Australian excel

Fuck you, whitey.

I checked..
"As the tourists persist with threats to abort their tour of Australia, official ICC data obtained by The Sunday Telegraph shows India have faced more sanctions than any Test-playing rival in the past 10 years."

Despite claims they have worse conduct issues than India, Australia are ranked fourth with 25 infringements. Glenn McGrath (six), Ricky Ponting (four), Adam Gilchrist (four) and Brett Lee (three) are the worst offenders;

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001023,00.html

Hippy, I love you, my negro. :)

Just showing how good us Aussies are at sledging, or slating, or plumbing or whatever the fuck it is..

Pah! You were the star of the show! Catch ya laterz... :)

Wasn't sledging invented by this geezer

Sledging, for all the Aussies claim to have invented it 60 years ago, is as old as Hambledon. As a child cricketer, I was asked if my mother had dressed me.
John Emburey once watched one tiny batsman after another approach the wicket and wanted to know when he might expect to see Snow White. Another county team tired of the constant stream of bad language coming from opponents and swore a vow of silence which reduced the batsmen to dithering wrecks. Jeff Thomson approached David Gower with a remark indicating that Gower’s strokeplay was less than perfect. “I know,” said the urbane Gower, “its your bowling. You’re far too good for me.”
Such exchanges are loaded with humour although Thomson was not often inclined to punctuate his sledging with a jolly chuckle which makes them acceptable, especially in the retelling.



English invented the game and the sledging it seems..
http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/31/stor...3161952300.htm

I thought it was this geezer....

You mean...........you're NOT a negro? All this time I thought you were! Sorry mate. Its my eyesight. Not what it used to be. :)

Sharp as ever, Sam...

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The Australians took our game and showed us how it ought to have be played Shane Waughs ball of the century to Mike Gatting still has me utterly flabbergasted I don't care if we have only beaten the buggers in the ashes only the once in my life time the world would be a poorer place without Australian cricket.

and with this olympic performance we'd have a national suicide issue..

if anyone there gave a shit. :)

booney, is hippy's drinking idol. 24 tinnies from aus to england?!?

24?! Try again..

a cover up?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6065220.stm

Err... 52, I think Dale.
A mate and I tried to keep up last time I flew home.
We even kept the score on the sick bag, same as boonie.
Got to 23 and they wouldn't serve us :(

sledging, like many other things sporting, was invented by the english and refined by the aussies. it's as old as W.G Grace.

canada and switzerland are good at skiing despite relatively small populations (33.5M and 7.5M), because they have good snow, and the money to spend on snowsports. this lucky combination is actually not that common among the nations of the world, so there aren't many countries that are good at winter olympic sports. it's pretty much western europe, north america and scandinavia, innit?

women's pole vault world record was just broken by yelena isinbayeva of russia. awesome. this is turning into a really awesome track and field games.

yeah her 25th world record.
she is a very smart athlete. 1cm each time.
and will continue to do so for a long time.



It is the same in the states (from experience), there is an unbeleivable swimming programme there, pretty much every kid gets helped through some kind of sport training, and from reports, China.
I loved that back there, but came here to find that it was very hard to break into any traditional english sports (cricket, rugby, etc) if you've never had a grounding in it. I remember my first rugby experience with fondness- getting the rules a bit wrong. Furthermore, coming back and being thrust into a country without that kind of system, and trying to pick up was very demoralising, and as I got older I wanted to be involved in more of a team sports type thing. Rugby then ruined my shoulder, and no more swimming.

not Irish, they have their own team :)

Warne to Strauss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5_hLpcGEo

I can watch this all day long

anyone remember Boonie at the Oval

with the English fans sitting in the crowd with fake moustaches

funny as fuck

hehe I wouldn't put it past them.. imagine.. losing to the English! The horror! :)

why do we hate the aussie's. surely we should all get together to hate on the real enemy.
the americans. :P

racist.

Damn right my son is an American

this is getting tiresome

how many times must we explain?

one third are economic migrants, like you. and can no more rep GB than shane warne, regardless of how many uk nurses you try to shag.

the other third are busy doing things other than sport, like inventing absolutely everything, writing books, television and music. Science and culture old fellow.

and the odd WMD

Wendy Houvenaghel is from Northern Ireland.

The republic only took the one track cyclist with them, and he was 3s off the qualifying pace for the men's pursuit (his only event I think).

And the other third are too fat, too lazy and too stupid to do anything other than watch TV and proclaim that we are a great sporting nation.