Category: Olympics 2016

With three gold, four silver and three bronze for a total of 10 out of our 29 medals at Rio 2016, swimming is Australia’s most successful Olympic sport, as has been the case for many years. While Australian swimmers didn’t pick up as many medals as was expected this Olympics, they competed admirably and did their supporters across the country proud. A Glorious Tradition Many Australians may be surprised to learn that along with Greece, Australia is the only country to have entered a team in every Summer Olympics since the 1896 Athens Olympics. While that year our sports-loving nation…

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For a country with a population of just 24 million to finish the Rio 2016 Olympics in the top ten, even at number 10, should be considered quite an achievement. That would not seem to be the case, however, for a sports-loving and fiercely competitive country like Australia that was tipped, and widely expected, to finish much higher up the board. With eight gold, eleven silver, and ten bronze for a total of 29 medals, Australia’s Olympians did their country proud in so many ways, but not everyone Down Under shares that opinion. In fact, many Australians have expressed dissatisfaction…

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There are nearly as many rumours circulating about why Olympians bite their medals as there were medals won in the Rio 2016 Olympics. Some of these rumours are in good fun, such as they aren’t really made of precious metals at all, but rather chocolate wrapped in foil, whereas others beg and try their hardest to be true, for example, the athletes are using an age-old method of biting precious metals to check for purity. No matter how much some of us would love such rumours to be true that, unfortunately, will never be the case. However, that doesn’t mean…

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