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Monday, April 10, 2006

Good as Gold Mate (Do-over)

"If you calculate the number of medals we win
Per capita of population
Take into account our alphabetical advantage and Australia is the number one Olympic nation.

... But we still can't win like we do at the Commonwealth Games."

Let's look at this mathamatically shall we?

1976 Montreal Did not qualify
1980 Moscow Did not qualify
1984 Los Angeles 5th Position
1988 Seoul 4th Position
1992 Barcelona Did not qualify
1996 Atlanta 3rd - Bronze medal
2000 Sydney 2nd - Silver medal

For all you math geeks out there, discounting the DNQs, yes there is a pattern emerging. Let's see what happens shall we?

2004 Athens 2nd – Silver medal

Dammit Lauren Jackson! The game to prove my mathamatical theories and win the Whatever-You-Win-For-Being-Smart-At-Maths award, and you had to go to sleep.
On the upside, props to Belinda Snell and the rest of the them, who really did quite a good job in their role as "Lauren Jackson's Opals".

And so, in the lead-up to Melbourne 2006, All I ask is this: everyone, please, do not fail to win the gold.

That's it. One task.
Got it?

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