Quote: reds @ May 1 2012, 1:29 PM BST
To give them something nice and shiny if they are one of the first three people to finish running around in circles?
Can we not have an Australian ridicule our Olympic Games, particularly as they hosted it themselves not too long ago and were so jingoistically proud of it, you'd think they'd invented the bloody thing.
As for having a global celebration of sport, a place where wealth, military power or political doctrine comes second place to athletic prowess, hard work and dedication, well I'll leave others to decide if it's a worthy event or not.