Archery - Drawing Long Bows

Christ, why can't we just be happy with what we've achieved at the Olympics without having to beat it up?

On Sunrise the other morning (I don't watch it - I just fell over and accidentally turned it on) Kochie was banging on about Australia and showing a medal talley...adjusted by per head of population...and look, aren't we just the friggen master race. We're winning! We're winning! If you turn it sideways, colour code it and reverse the polarity.

How about we do another talley based on the average annual income or available clean drinking water of each nation? Or money thrown at support and training by sports obsessed governments? How good would we look then Sunrise? Nothing to say? Thought not.

To win an Olympic medal would be a fantastic achievement honouring the skills of the recipient and validating all the time and support the family and friends had put into the athlete.

But unless you're one of them, or involved with the particular sport. It means sweet Fanny Adams to you personally. No one is going to root you because someone you've never met did something marginally better than someone else you've never met. Well, they might if they were drunk and horny but I'm sure they'd regret it in the morning and that's drawing a long bow anyway.