Just watching the Commonwealth Games - as a New Zealander, I only really feel the need for two golds at this thing. The rugby sevens, and the netball. And we have won the sevens yippee. More medals of course would be nice, hopefully be a couple in the triathlon, but those two team sports are the only ones I feel the NEED to get, if you know what I mean.
Of course the Australian gold avalanche has started - the host country was 'disappointed' with a haul of only three on the first day, today they added another nine hmm. Not even going to get into the point of the games as an event, but really, everyone knows they aren't the Olympics.
The opening ceremony was okay, I guess, I liked the choice of Under The Milky Way for the ballet part of the thing, and Dame Kiri is always good value, even for a happy birthday singalong, but as for other bits - giant koalas, whatthe? And surely they could have found a better singer than Delta, please? Even Kylie? And the Turin Olympics were only a couple of weeks ago, oh thinker uppers of the flaming backpacks on skaters - and the Italians are the kings and queens of design, so yeah, flying tram land versus Benetton and Versace.
The fireworks were nice though.
And back to the sevens, it was a bit distressing to see that Aussie player convulse on the field after a very heavy tackle. Apart from that though, I think that whenever the Aussies got the ball or were likely to score, they were being booed? Obviously not a lot of Melburnians got tickets to the sevens, to add the local support.
Pauly
Of course the Australian gold avalanche has started - the host country was 'disappointed' with a haul of only three on the first day, today they added another nine hmm. Not even going to get into the point of the games as an event, but really, everyone knows they aren't the Olympics.
The opening ceremony was okay, I guess, I liked the choice of Under The Milky Way for the ballet part of the thing, and Dame Kiri is always good value, even for a happy birthday singalong, but as for other bits - giant koalas, whatthe? And surely they could have found a better singer than Delta, please? Even Kylie? And the Turin Olympics were only a couple of weeks ago, oh thinker uppers of the flaming backpacks on skaters - and the Italians are the kings and queens of design, so yeah, flying tram land versus Benetton and Versace.
The fireworks were nice though.
And back to the sevens, it was a bit distressing to see that Aussie player convulse on the field after a very heavy tackle. Apart from that though, I think that whenever the Aussies got the ball or were likely to score, they were being booed? Obviously not a lot of Melburnians got tickets to the sevens, to add the local support.
Pauly
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