Firstly, I'm baaaaack! Yay!
Now, the Olympics are now in full swing and I usually love me some Olympic action. Thing is, I probably consider myself a bit of a bandwagon-er when it comes to sport because I don't usually watch it unless it involves national teams versing each other instead of say, leagues or clubs within the same city/state/country/continent.
I've been watching a lot of sports that usually have some Australian competing within it. Say right now as I blog, I am also watching equestrian events on TV. Yup, horsies hippety-hoppeting across my TV is not what I usually call entertaining or adrenaline-inducing. However, when an Australian is on, it automatically becomes riveting stuff. It's amazing how much bias and patriotism can blind you because automatically you think that they're the best of the bunch. Even if the Australian rider falls off, who cares - they fell off
beautifully, better than the rest who suffered the same fate.
I from time to time watch the games alone in my room, which is a good thing because I tend to go a little mental whenever my team is on. Often I'd get out of bed, jump and down, curse a bit every now and then and yelp like a teenage school girl when the action begins to heat up.
I've been researching my Olympics for the past few days or so and I've learned that Australia currently sits in the top ten nations in the world when it comes to overall medals performance. I personally think that for a country with a population less than state of California USA, the amount of talent Australia produces just really amazes me. I would also extend this to things like artistic, academic and other achievements as well.
If the world and its countries were a family, Australia is like the little young brother who, as a young child sat and watched eagerly as his older siblings did their things, learning swiftly as they go along, absorbing his older siblings skills and knowledge like a sponge. Now Australia is entering his teenage years and is starting to really come to his own, doing what he's researched from the rest of the world while giving his own unique little spin to it, which gives him an edge.
Okay, enough patriotism from me...
... Oh why not - Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! OI! OI! OI!
sorry :-)
