Australia's Olympic Downfall

[Jamsys1]

roflmao im an aussie and i thought that was awesome. Mind u considering Aus only has 20million people we did pretty well coming 5th or 6th in the medal tally.

[gnarkillkicksass]

It's funny now because Australia, country of 20 million in a 10 year long drought, has 5 times more medals then "Team GB" at Vancouver.....

[martyshire]

Funny how Aussie are portrayed in the UK as being obsessed with beating England. I had never heard of any two countries comparing medal tallies so much until when GB got more medals that Aus. To me it's just about us finishing as high as poss. Never heard so much bragging about the Ashes until England finally won in 05. Didn't notice much fanfare from us after the 5-0. To me it seems like a lot of jealousy has been stored up over the last few decades and it's the POMs who have the complex.

[adamswampy]

@martyshire - "Didn't notice much fanfare from us after the 5-0." B*llocks! You're the first ones to rub anyones nose in it if you beat them. Why do you think you're so disliked in England? Your not just bad losers, your bad winners! I'd say even the Germans are more popular. Makes me laugh when Australians talk about becoming a Republic and cutting ties with the "Poms" as if it's going to hurt our feelings - do you seriously think the English care? Goodbye and good luck.

[Lerlialen]

Was this the parody from the NRL footy show? lol it was funny. At least Aussies can take the piss out on themselves.

It was the English who were parading around like they've won something important. They were posting 'Australia, where the bloody hell were you?' signs around their country whent they got 1 gold more than Australia! lol

About bloody time you were ahead of us though. Its taken you long enough and how many Olympics and Commonwealths did it take for the Brits to get there? lol

[artsed08]

@Lerlialen 5 more golds than Australia. FIVE.

[Lerlialen]

LOL! Who came up with this parody? I don't know if I've seen this one but the NRL footy show boys were mocking something with the same clips that is shown here.

About time GB trumped Australia. They have been absent long enough from any Olympics. One win over the Aussies and they think they are so good lol.

The GB started this stupid thing anyway by posting 'Australia, where the bloody hell are you' around their country. So they were taking it alot more serious than the Aussies were.

[adamswampy]

"We are the country that gave the world Jason Donovan and Neighbours - and the great Rolf Harris!!!" LMAO. I love this clip.

[5haiHulud]

Well you couldn't take Scotland and Wales properly. That's why they exist. The legit natives to the Island that you Germans have settled down in and have called England "Land of the Angles". So that piss poor Anglo-Saxon identity that you had is now worse with your national dish being chicken tikka masala.

[b24t92]

pretty sure the australians only consider england the main competition for cricket, most other sports ausies focus on the US or NZ in the case of Rugby... got to admit though it is a pretty good hitler video

[ShahOfBlahII]

...now the Ashes Are coming Home Too!! This needs updating!

[4dadios]

I am American and we over across the pond are Free Viva U.S.A.

[globaltraveller]

Speak for yourself. I'm Scottish and in no way do I want to be associated with the "British" or English, thanks. Especially in sport, but politically as well.

After all what exactly does England have to offer the world? Scrounges its water off Wales, oil and mineral resources from Scotland, and now even its Olympic medals. At least global warming and rising sea levels has one advantage - the disappearance of England beneath the waves!

[SJACK13]

Scotland scrounges off the english and welsh taxpayer.

[armbar]

'....the disappearance of England beneath the waves!

Youre right!!

the scots have developed 2 strategies to survive. 1 )They drink so much they will develop gills so to breathe underwater

2) they will be so bloated from eating too many fried mars bars, they can float on top

Proud Scots unite!

[globaltraveller]

No we'll leave the drunken hooliganism to the English thanks. It isn't known as the "English disease" for nothing after all.

And on the other point, I believe that the English are now the most obese nation in Europe certainly ahead of Scotland.

[JamesCunnyy]

you do realese scotland has hardly any world class sport facilties england has loads england has the biggest economy by a mile in the uk and the highest population yet scotland has more spent on it as does wales and northern ireland we have offered lots of music and in latest movie and music awards brits(all english yet they say british) we romped every1 england has nothing your right just everyhing scotland dont and wants

[globaltraveller]

@JamesCunnyy

Yes I know England has many world class sports facilities. I'm paying for them. Just like people in Scotland are paying for that English slush fund called "London 2012".

[globaltraveller]

@JamesCunnyy

Yes I know England has many world class sports facilities. I'm paying for them. Just like people in Scotland are paying for that English slush fund called "London 2012".

[suepointen]

@globaltraveller - you are joking i take it? The Scots paying for something in England? You're living in a fantasy world aren't you? P.S. Scotland made a big fuss about that Jock winning (2 or 3) cycling gold medals at the last Olympics. Scotland the Brave, isn't Scotland wonderful etc. But where did he train? England. Not Scotland. England.

[adamswampy]

Why do so many whinging aussies go on about the size of the UK population or whether England alone would have got more medals? Why does population matter so much? Have you heard of the English moaning that the only reason the U.S.A. gets more medals than us is because they have 4 or 5 times the population? No, I didn't think so. Just grow up you prats. If population was so important China should have got the most gold medals in every Olympics held. Just face the fact you got stuffed lol.

[LetsGoFcukingMental]

OMG i nearly pissed myself laughing lmao good job man !

[shmickpingo1]

to be fair, 'great britain' is 4 countries. if it was purely australia vs england in the gold medal tally then australia got more than england.

but who cares anyways

[LetsGoFcukingMental]

you do lol :D well known that aussys cant stand to lose anything, weird for a country that hardly ever wins anything ...

Only jokin' :P

[SJACK13]

would be inclined to disagree slightly. In political terms we are The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and if any aussie goes through immigration at heathrow to get to their bar job in Shepherds Bush or Fulham they will notice the sign says UK border, not english or welsh border etc. Wales is a principality yet still a nation with an identity. I guess the question is when does a 'nation' become a separate state? why do we separate for football , rugby etc ?discuss.

[WinstonChurchill]

@SJACK13 Good point. The onyl answer is tradition. But its a ridiculous tradition. For England to sing God Save the Queen and for Scotland to sing flower of Scotland is going to kill the monarchy.

[artsed08]

@shmickpingo1 Clearly, you do!

[glopna2]

England if they have any pride shouldn't measuring themselves against Australia (anyway they should have always been above us in the olympic medal tallies). Although there is a rivalry. The 2003 world cup could have gone either way and as for the ashes i think England have given up.

[bcoy1para]

we dont measure ourelfs on australia! its the other way around, the rivalry is small compared to ours and germanys or scotlands ect

[guisepp497]

lmao 'THE GREAT ROLF HARRIS'

[mikegregcraig]

As an aside - here in Canada, many people are looking to the Australian system as a model for how sports should be managed. Here, our athletes basically live in poverty. The "Own The Podium" and other similar programs, aimed for Vancouver 2010, has helped, but for the most part, athletes here get a small spotlight for two weeks every four years and then are forgotten and ignored.

Here's hoping we can learn something from the Australian (and British lottery-funding) systems!

[bcoy1para]

crazy thing is the rivaly mainly comes from australia! most of us english dont look at the table thinking- "hope we are beating the aussies" none of us care, our main rivals are the germans

[gnarkillkicksass]

Same, here in Australia we don't really care about how we go against England its all about against the USA in swimmin rowing and cycling, then when those programs over no one follows it anymore.

[LetsGoFcukingMental]

LOL swimming, rowing, cycling ? arent they the sports that the UK dominated at the olympics ?

[artsed08]

@gnarkillkicksass Team GB came top of the medal tables in both rowing and cycling. So you should be trying to beat us in those sports, not the USA.

[pete6256]

Haha!! "...Mein Fuhrer... maybe we should stop obsessing over the English... it makes us look like a mad and bitter exgirlfriend..."

[lollies91]

Bloody hilarious!!

The rivalry is just a bit of harmless fun (well it should be). Most sports would be boring without it.

Granted a good number of Australian's need to grow up, particularly John O'Neil (god love him, he knows how to rankle people.)

I have quite enjoyed the fall back to Earth (especially in the cricket) A lot of the stars heads had gotten way to big. Winning shouldn't be everything.

I would also love it if all the attention given to sport in Oz was lessened considerably.

[n1ckotene]

The truth hurts!

[Vpmatt]

Ha ha fucking brilliant!

[Vpmatt]

Ha ha fucking hilarious!

[EnglishKev]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!

[moeman444]

cant wait for the ashes... u poms have ur fingers crossed it will be rained out...which it probably will be. do scotland wales and Nireland help you with cricket as well?

[bazzatheblue]

Yes we let them help,but they are crap at it as well.You don`t beat us as much these days in sports but i think you will retain the ashes pretty easily,we have gone right down the pan in that sport again.

[jaycek]

Classic. 5/5

[life2lifele55]

hahahhhahah that was fucking gold!!! 5 stars and im an aussie.

still it was aussie coaches who guided the GB athletes to success, what the fuck is GB anyway? what do welsh and scottish athletes do?

australia still kicks pom ass 99% of the time

[theaccempire]

gotta love those whinging poms..

[OddThomas88]

whinging? They kicked your ass.

And it ain't going to get any better. Britain is a far richer country than Australia and it was only money that lifted Australia from zero medals in 1976 to 17 gold in 2000. You'll have to import lots of Belorusian pole vaulters and Romanian weightlifters to catch up lol.

But you'll always have 2.56

LOL!

[backup1313]

i just love that we beat the aussies at the olympics since every australian person who had showed up on british tv for months before hand had been saying how they were going to do better than us.

I love irony

[gnarkillkicksass]

I'm Aussie and I found this funny (ps downfall - great movie) but what I don't get is here in Australia the Olympic rivalry with us and GB is pretty much non existent it's nothing like the cricket or rugby. As far as the media goes it's focus is on Australia up against the USA more so then any other nation and nothing is said about GB because in the Olympics there's no event with a rivalry between us. I guess though its not the case in the UK.

[bloodredskys]

the rowing you could say was pretty competitive between GB and Australia, but except for that we don't make a big deal out of it, we just try to do the best we can, but i still cheer when we beat an aussie ;)

[gnarkillkicksass]

Rowing has become a joke here, Rowing Australia won't send schoolboys over to Henley like they used to but ah well. Yeah GB rowing is on the way up, 2012 they'll be the ones to watch.

[bcoy1para]

its the same as in uk! our rivals are certaintly not australia! we measure ourselfs against usa, germany russia etc not aus , im not sure who started the olympic rivalry.

Also same as in cricket, we dont care if we win or lose, no one even plays cricket in england, its not even in tp 5 played sports anymore.

[xxxponch]

lol, the viewership for the Ashes in the UK is HUGE, and there is a TON of advertising for it. If the UK are winning, then it's big and important (and the DVD is titled "the greatest test series of all time"), if the UK is getting thumped then it falls off the radar quietly. Hilarious.

[adamswampy]

Why do australians keep going on about the population difference? If that really meant anything China and India would be the world champions in every sport there is lol. Stop using pathetic excuses - the Brits did better than you, get over it and stop "whinging" :0).

[adamswampy]

lmao! yep, and they have the nerve to talk about whinging poms - whinging aussies in my experience. "Maybe we should stop obsessing over the poms......it makes us look like a mad and bitter ex-girlfriend". Those are the truest words spoken lol. Many a true word is spoken in jest ;0).

[arnoldesnumerouno]

im aussie and i thought that was fkn hilarious

[theaccempire]

you whinging pommy cunts have three times our popluation. you're fucking useless, because you are hosting the next olympics your government has stopped giving allowences to the pakis and has funding your institute of sport.

[HardcoreClassics]

When Australia beat us, nobody here cares too much. When GB beats australia, out come the excuses, the whingers and those wihtout a sense of humour.

It's funny because your such bad losers. lol

[matt2house]

ere ere I 2nd that, even when they lost the ashes to us back in 05 they still whinge

[matt2house]

lol who was it that beaten australia in 2 rugby world cup tournaments and stole the ashes from ya?....England....now shut it u slag

[finesseccentric]

Well it's a good thing that not all Australians give a damn about sport.

[1V4Victory1]

HAHAHAHAHA FUCKIN GREAT

[stig318]

umm i think austrlia fancys us, they always try to be as good as us but never are when it realy matters

[stig318]

and Team GB second in the Paralympics medal table, AHAHAH 36 golds on are way to first place, you aussies cant even keep up with ukrane

[harpax]

congrats on having the second best cripples in the world!

[ThePhantomWozzler]

"congrats on having the second best cripples in the world!"

congrats on having the fifth. But come on...your descended from a very small number of people. With all that inbreeding you should have plenty of tards to compete lol

[m39au]

hehe - good observation Phantom - a large % of them look like they have just come off a set from the film "Deliverance"

[Brendanvio]

He drew Bugs Bunny in 5 seconds.....

Whoever the pom is that thought this up is a genius. I'd buy him a pint.

[MrOscarDaSilvaVieira]

Hahaha

I am Australian but fuck this is some funny shit right here.

If you dont laugh, you don't have a sense of humour.

I'll still participate in the rivalry though.

[adis198]

hehehe... "We still have better weather"... haha, and never forget it! This vid is hilarious

[adamswampy]

Fanastic vid - surprising how this is not only very funny but sooo true :0). Btw, if australia is so wonderful why do so many australians live over here - london's crawling with the whinging buggers lol.

[joelhrobinson22]

Let's not get to carried away. Remember your past pitiful performances. Didn't hear any cheering then!

Athens 2004 - Australia 17 Gold, 49 medals - GB 9 Gold, 30 Medals

Sydney 2000 - Australia 16 Gold, 58 medals  - GB 11 Gold, 28 Medals

Barcelona 1996 - Australia 9 Gold, 23 Medals - GB 1 Gold, 6 Medals (ouch!!)

Atlanta 1992 - Australia 7 Gold, 11 medals - GB 5 Gold, 12 medals.

[cuneofortytwo]

yup - but look at your steady decline and our steady improvement. Let's face it, your days of bullshitting about your sporting prowess arent gonna come back. You're finished in world sport.

[CHANNELOMD]

HE HE WELL SAID

[stig318]

lol your riht they do al whine and live over here in lnd

[verydodgy]

whinging convicts :)

[bendoor]

How many of you are English? If that's the case then I'm sorry but England won 13 gold medals to Australia's 14...hehe so much for all your celebrations! GB my arse, it's all about beating the English! I love the good old rivalry, and I didn't even think about losing to GB until the media of both nations went nuts about it.

[ausadvance]

Britains Population: 60 million.

Australias Population: 20 million.

British Medals: 47

Australian Medals: 41.

I'm sorry but that settles it.

It seems as though people have a problem with Australia?.. As far as I can see we usually end up near the top, despite our low population. Australia is seriously disadvantaged in more ways than most people realise.

[cuneofortytwo]

Look at the table again, mate.You weren't good enough and crying about the relative small size of your population smacks of desperation. Just face it, you're second rate at sport and art and culture and intelligence and need I go on ?

[TheClunkingFist]

So true cuneo. AND their sheep are ugly.

Mind you, of that 20 mill population, about 18 million are POMS. LOL

[harpax]

buddy, England was below Australia in the medal tally. Only GREAT BRITAIN was above Australia. You need the scots and welsh to prop you up. Give us New Zealand then, call us GREAT AUSTRALIA and we own you for just a total of 25mil people. Now sit down sonny!

[ThePhantomWozzler]

You're medals were pretty much all won by women swimmers. Sorry i meant sheila swimmers lol. Oh the grapes...the grapes... they're so very sour!!!

[HardcoreClassics]

Prop us up?

We compete with the Scots and the Welsh because they are as much British as we are. We're all part of the same fucking country you tit.

New Zealand and Australia are different countries. You fail.

[slawrence89]

Just so you know guys, for a population triple ours in a developed country you guys didn't really go that well

[potnoodle123]

Chin up aussies, maybe you'll do better next olympics...on second thoughts...

[HardcoreClassics]

I think we in Britain generally like to see the Aussies do well, not better than us of course, but I think most Brits would certainly cheer on the Aussies over the yanks or the french. We're both great sporting nations. Generally (apart from football) we invent the sports and the Aussies tend to perfect them.

There are Aussies AND Brits here that take it too seriously and obviously don't get healthy banter this video represents.

[Aspire85]

Haha look at you all gettin defensive. The olympics are wank, hardly anyone cares, hence the stadiums being near-empty whilst this was going on!

Waste of money, waste of time, waste of gold. I think it's amazing how people are worshipping Rebecca Adlington like her shit doesn't stink, considering everyone laid into that 14yr old diver when he didn't get any medals. The olympics are a fucking joke. Cancer of the sports industy.

[lapalad]

Its the first time since the Seoul 1988 olympics that they have won more gold medals at the olympics,and with all the Aussie coaches is it any wonder.

[nottins]

lapaland, I suggest you take a look at the gold medal totals in the history of the modern games and you'll find that Australia are a long, long way behind. A little country called Sweden (half the population of Australia) has won more gold medals in the summer games than Australia.

[lapalad]

Thats got alot to do with the fact that at some olympics the Australian team consisted of as little as 1 member i suggest you read a bit of history of the games

[aoanla]

Bitter,twisted.

[aoanla]

Didn`t you know? the best aussies come to britain, most of `em stay,

ever wonder why?

what about you?

[Rockweiler1234]

Brilliant!!!! I've had to cop it sweet for a while now. Humility is a tough lesson to learn for such an arrogant sporting nation. Still, with a third the population of Britain the Aussies did damn well.

[mikeyokini]

genius, team GB will get at least 30 golds in 2012

[bomberhird5]

Could the humourless Aussie's shut up please? You're embarrassing me. This was pretty funny.

[jeffaz10]

sheep shagging contest Australia would win gold every time

[m39au]

They certainly are world champ bleaters - that's for sure ;-)

[redlightflashin]

Funny how Australia can dish out the insults but get all offended when the shoe is on the other foot, and why always bring the weather into it, yes your weather is better than ours, hardly headline news and hardly something to brag about, its like bragging to a one armed man that you you have more arms, just sad and pathetic really.

[mtk19712003]

Sorry mate, but when you bother to HAVE YOUR OWN COUNTRY AT THE OLYMPICS then come and talk to us...Scots winning gold medals etc etc is a joke...were you cheering when they won a gold medal for 'you'? Give me a break...

[butter0on0toast]

what are you talking about? last time i checked Scotland was part of Britain.......... they compete as Great Britain not England. And yeh i was cheering and shouting as Hoy won 3 golds....... amazing athlete. What is the big deal. Woopie doo Britain beat you in the medal table...... get over it and stop trying to make excuses. All i read on youtube is Australians attacking British success at the olympics, its pathetic

[matthewbird76]

Hey knobhead...... you know the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the country right?

[aoanla]

This sassenach cheered his nuts off when His Hoyl-iness brought back gold for britain and his fellow scots,and so did everyone else.

For a dictionary definition of bitter and twisted see under `a` for australian.

[lapalad]

Is that why the English riot so much after their football games,they,re so bitter and twisted

[HardcoreClassics]

Football Hooliganism has very little to do with the sport of football.

We have one of the best (if not the best) football league in the world. Even the best teams in that league have holliaan supporters.

Hooligansim has very little to do with a teams success and being 'bitter and twisted' and everyhting to do with pissed up violent troublemakers.

[bendoor]

I thought a fair few Scots would prefer to compete as an independent country. I spoke to some people in Scotland when I was there recently who didn't like the idea of Great Britain, but anyway...

[binghamblood]

bendoor - I've met plenty of English people who don't like the idea of Great Britain either. Seems to be a growing feeling of independence for England over there now. Must admit I don't see how Scotland would benefit - who's gonna give a rat's ass what Scotland thinks?

[twolunches]

Typical whinging Australian with sour grapes.

[lapalad]

Like the way the English threw on a riot at Lansdowne road when the Irish scored a goal or hurled bottles,glasses and chairs at Marvin Hagler when he defeated Alan Minter in 3 easy rounds,sad and pathetic really

[aoanla]

Thugs and cretins can turn up anywhere and screw things up,hardly typical.

Grapes,sour.

[tomsterlove24]

Its funny how Australias main target is to beat the British in everything, its starting to become borderline obsession, maybe they should look at beating Germany first, one step at a time now!

[y00tuber]

the funniest thing about England is when they talk up their world cup hopes in the soccer/football. they always crash and burn even though everyone in their country lives for soccer/football! bloody hopeless! they only got 1 stage further than Australia in the last one and we were beaten by the winners haha

[m39au]

get a sense of humour sonny - it's supposed to be a bit of fun - that's all

[rhys21kipling]

we dont even care about beating you most people here dont even no where Australia is. you think your to good when the only thing your good at is rugby even tho we fucked you up twice in 2 world cups when we need to.

Your not that good at sport

[y00tuber]

obviously poms do care, hence the video.

Most people do know where Australia is because its a huge beautiful island where the sun always shines ;)

[aoanla]

Where men are men,

so are the women,

and sheep are nervous.

[kornboy130]

i think this video proves that they dont care - and ifnd it laughable how the aussie journos are falling over themselves to slate the GB team saying "its more than one country".

[artsed08]

@y00tuber Yeah, it's paradise!

Unless you're black.

Of course, if you're foreign and good at sport, you're in.

[mtk19712003]

Kipling, only 2 States in Aust give a stuff about Thugby (Qld and NSW), the rest of us play Aussie Rules....our national sport is cricket, and if you do your homework, you'll see that we've won the last 3 World Cups, and have been the UNDISPUTED champions of cricket for the last 15 years (And the only time you have beaten us in the last 20 years was by cheating....Trescothick!) Justice was done though with a 5-0 thrashing....truth hurts doesn't it? ha ha ha ha ha

[drinkingmad]

ahhhh, yawn, yawn!

[aoanla]

Statistically speaking no-one in england gives a damn about cricket.

Just the tv and sports journos.

You could maybe check out attendance figures for football over cricket.

[rhys21kipling]

ahahah this is funny . Aussie's expect to much like he said . i dont care i just wonted to beat the russia and Germany and Austrila.

[NekoBazu]

Brilliant :D

[aoanla]

`a mad and bitter ex -girlfriend`

Tears of laughter,

the dogs bollocks,

10/10

[Aussiephil99]

We have 1/3 the population of the UK and still won 14 golds and came 6th in the world...how can that be choking!!!!!

per capita once again we kicked your arse!!!

South Africa with it's 50 million people won 1 silver medal....just one silver medal!!

[bastardsuper]

Phil, you didn't kick anybodies arse. The Aussie team had 435 athletes, compared to GB's 312. You basically got owned. When it comes to capita, I'm sure the 3 million Kiwi's are asking you why they kick your arses at rugby everytime.

[lapalad]

We had more athletes because we qualified for more sports eg Basketball,softball,baseball and Australia has won 2 RWCs compared to New Zealands 1.What are the Poms going to introduce to the olympics? Football hooliganism

[aoanla]

Not much football at the olympics,although lets face it, we`d kick your arse.(you know it).

[aoanla]

We didn`t think the amateur sports were that important,but the aussies insist they are,so we believed them,see you in 2012.

[jameswight69]

population's got nothing to do with it dickhead, it's 'registered' athletes in the various sports, i'm sure you have way more than us per capita on that level so don't play that chite 'population' card, such an argument should warrant a WIN for China in the 'soccer' world cup, yeh like that's gonna happen. Just get over urselves!

[bendoor]

actually it does. the more people in a country the better a chance of finding an elite athlete. say 1/1,000 people have the ability to be an olympian in a sport, then a country with 100 million has a range of 100,000 people. while a country with 10 million has a range of 10,000. granted it is also influence by quality of competetion and coaching etc but population helps

[Aussiephil99]

Funny...but we have 20 million people you have 60 million. We actually did very very well as usual....you just did well for once!!! You bought all the best Aussie coaches for swimming. How can you say winning 14 gold medals is choking...we still came 6th on the medal table. The arrogant South Africans only won a single silver medal!!!

[paulbweb]

Lighten up Phil, it's obviously meant to be a piss take on the Aussie obsession with beating the English in sports. 14 gold medals is good, but losing to the POMS at anything is considered a failure by Australians like O'Neil and Coates.

[drinkingmad]

Its true, the Aussies are pretty arrogant when it comes to sports. This video says it all. Good job!

[aoanla]

your right, no fucking sense of humour either.

[StGeorgesDay1]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA(takes breath)HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHHA*F­ALLS OF CHAIR*HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH(HAS HEART ATTACK LAUGHING)10/10.

NO SCRATCH THAT 11/10.