What is this unholy fascination with the greyness of silver.
It is becoming a Nu Zulun media mantra that ... "we have won another silver medal".
Folks we are 14th on the medal table. This is not good. In fact ... it is bad. ... very bad.
Nauru is ahead of us! Nauru with a population of less than 10, 000!!!!!
Now Nauru may only have one medal .... but ..... by hokey ..... it is gold!
Now for Nu zulun ..... Do they only want a tiny sliver of the action by gaining silver?
Are their livers impaired?
It's reliving a nightmare from the last games. It sends a shiver slightly down my spine!
Why are we constantly staring at the back of an Australian green and gold uniform?
I'll tell you why. Yes I will.
The Australians as you know know how to train as a team of athletes in their different codes. And in those teams they develop a winning mentality. They create a positive energy which plays out on the track or pool or ... wherever they compete.
(Yes there are supposed to be two knows in a row don't you know)
We kiwis tend to train as individuals (apart from, of course, the team sports - and it is precisely in those where we will win those elusive golds folks).
For example, the Aussies are so very awesomely much better than us at Race Walking.
"Why?" I can hear you ask .... tell us why .... It is because their race walkers train as a team.
One reason, that in the old days, Snell and Halberg won gold is that they trained as part of a larger team - Lydiard's boys.
Now we Nu Zulunurs are very fragile emotionally.
When we lost the last world rugby cup in 2007 a national season of clinical depression was declared.
We lead the world in Prozac per-capita. ... yes we do. (gold medalists we are - pass the pills dear).
So pray for us poor silvers that we may yet get a gold medal..... our mental health depends upon it!!!!!!!!
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