Commonwealth games : Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:23 pm  

Interesting how this has been going a week and we don't even have a thread on it??

Is anybody really interested in this competition anymore?? Is it worth keeping in the sporting calendar??

Re: Commonwealth games : Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:02 pm  

It is, yes.

Have British Athletes still won more medals in total than their australian counterparts?

Re: Commonwealth games : Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:42 pm  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Have British Athletes still won more medals in total than their australian counterparts?

Given the amount of top quality British Athletes who haven't turned up for this. Including pretty much all of the cycling team (it clashes with the european champs, which is a qualifier for London 2012), the majority of the gymnastics squad (the world champs are next week and their funding is determined by results there) and 3 world/olympic champions in track and field giving it a miss it's hardly a surprise to anyone here the aussies are top of the medals table.

Re: Commonwealth games : Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:50 pm  

airliebird9 wrote:

Interesting ?

No

Re: Commonwealth games : Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:30 pm  

Rooster Booster wrote:

It is, yes.

Have British Athletes still won more medals in total than their australian counterparts?

British???

As of 5 minutes ago British athletes and Australian athletes have both won 143 medals each

Re: Commonwealth games : Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:38 pm  

How wrong have they got the ticketing? Everywhere is empty when it's on the telly. Most likely due to over pricing, just like the last cricket world cup, that and it is clashing with India vs Aussies test match.

Re: Commonwealth games : Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:04 am  

Watched the weightlifting the other day and was a fan of Zoe Smith



What the hell is going on with Australian Seen Lee?



My final observation - bloke?

Re: Commonwealth games : Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:47 am  

airliebird9 wrote:

British???

As of 5 minutes ago British athletes and Australian athletes have both won 143 medals each

British = 149 plays 143 now.

It's annoying isn't it.

Mind you this is exactly what the aussie media were doing at Beijing, when they realised Great Britain had more gold, they pointed out that Australian had won more overall medals, only for GB to then go and pip them by them end. They didn't mention that.

Nowadays they only go on about how GB are spending nearly 500,000,000 dollars on winning medals in London and getting lots of top coaches, (including Australian ones of course). Thing is they have been doing that since 1976.

Re: Commonwealth games : Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:54 am  

If the Commonwealth Games and the opportunity to win medals at it continues to be treated with disdain by some of its more high profile eligible competitors, should it still have a place in the sporting calendar?

Why not just having separate "Commonwealth Championships" for each individual sport, then they can schedule them at a time which enables all the elite competitors to take part?

Re: Commonwealth games : Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:08 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Watched the weightlifting the other day and was a fan of Zoe Smith

I bet she is brilliant in the Snatch