(UPDATED below)
Bolt's absolute dominance of the 100 metre sprint was impressive. But it is incumbent on me as an honest patriot to direct all readers to Australia's greatest Olympic moment. Our first ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
You see, winning in sports that your country cares deeply about is all well and good. But the truly great wins, the ones you savour for decades to come, happen when you are victorious at a sport you don't even try to compete in, like handball or soccer.
So when Stephen Bradbury triumphed in the speed skating at Salt Lake City, it really meant something, because we only have about three skating rinks in Australia, and they are filled with stumbling 13 year olds for most of the day. As you will see in the clip below, it was a truly glorious Aussie victory:
UPDATE: I'd be a fool not to include the greatest moment of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney - the stunning mens 100-metre freestyle heat featuring the one and only (literally the only) Eric "the Eel" Moussambani:
Bolt's absolute dominance of the 100 metre sprint was impressive. But it is incumbent on me as an honest patriot to direct all readers to Australia's greatest Olympic moment. Our first ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
You see, winning in sports that your country cares deeply about is all well and good. But the truly great wins, the ones you savour for decades to come, happen when you are victorious at a sport you don't even try to compete in, like handball or soccer.
So when Stephen Bradbury triumphed in the speed skating at Salt Lake City, it really meant something, because we only have about three skating rinks in Australia, and they are filled with stumbling 13 year olds for most of the day. As you will see in the clip below, it was a truly glorious Aussie victory:
UPDATE: I'd be a fool not to include the greatest moment of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney - the stunning mens 100-metre freestyle heat featuring the one and only (literally the only) Eric "the Eel" Moussambani:
I remember that race. Short track speedskating is pure madness...anything can happen.
Canada's greatest Olympic moment was probably Donovan Bailey winning the 100m in Atlanta, but I think this most surprising (at least in my memory) was Mark McCoy winning the 110m hurdles in Barcelona in 1992. No one could've predicted that.
this is the greatest sporting moment i have seen, except for maybe that pass that eli manning made in the super bowl.
history came back to bite us yesterday. Don't know if you caught the 49 footers but Australia was set for Gold in the sailing but capsized twice on the way to the finish line... we ended up 5th? 6th?