 Historically we did very well in sports which were imported to Australia by the British. The first sports that the British brought with them were football, cricket, athletics. Australia was colonised at a time when international sport became the flavour around the world. Sport therefore became something that we could define ourselves with. We seem to be very good at sports which are not international sports. For example, not everyone in the world swims. Not everyone in the world plays women's and men's hockey. Something bad happened in 1976 and Australia did very, very badly at the Montreal Olympic Games. Instead of promoting our traditional sports, the government promoted sports where they believed they were able to gain international success. We did very well at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games because there was a lot of money put into making sure that we did well. Unfortunately for us there are a number of other countries around the world who have now adopted this model. This therefore means that it will be a lot more competitive and unfortunately we'll start to drop down the medal tally.