Fuck John Coates is a cockhead. I always thought he was an arrogant arse but he's confirmed it in spades.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/australia-stunned-by-annastacia-palaszczuk-slap-down-in-tokyo/news-story/fbbfafd3d7fda64b6521dae94b005463

Absolute pig of a human being.

Plenty of football today! I’m even going to follow the softball 

Sweden lead USA in Matildas group.

Interesting is Brisbane was unopposed but they'll do well I think. 

Some football is on now @7plus

Brisbane 2032, great news.

Softball team got smashed 8:1.

We peaked in 2000. Funding wise, other countries are matching/exceeding us. Unless there is heavy investment again, I can't see us reaching our previous heights (not to mention the home team advantage).

Aus softball about to start. 10am.

Always enjoyed the Olympics. Going to be different but hopefully the sport will prevail and it'll be something to enjoy. Early events on soon and it all kicks off very soon.

The official website only starts becoming very informative once the events actually start. By that I mean the start lists for all the heats in the swimming haven't been uploaded yet. They also don't necessarily appear in the overwhelmingly massive daily schedule until very close to the event. The filter per country was good last time but that doesn't seem available yet. It was very easy having a daily chronological list of all Australian participants.

We’re playing Japan in softball tomorrow night flick it on 

I'm looking forward to it. Won't be the same without the crowds but in many ways I'm a simple man: put on a sport with an Aussie in it and I can cheer.

Doesn't seem to be much interest this time- for obvious reasons (they should not be held in a country that doesn't what them because of covid)

There was a time when people knew the name of many Australian track and field athletes- now I don't know any of them and have no interest in them- many people I know feel the same.

The Australian media still go into ecstasies over Aussie swimmers and talk them up all the time. That's a good reason for taking no interest in them- can't stand competitive  swimming and the show off swimmers,

I'm happy to watch boxing and field hockey- pity we can only see them once every four years. As for shooting, I would rather watch grass grow. Archery- they don't even use proper bows, they use high tech contraptions that you can hold at full draw for a minute or so.

And I don't want to listen to aussie commentators screaming for aussie gold, whilst ignoring any non-aussie achievement.

So we have a thread for the olyroos and matildas but thought it might be worth having one for all the other Olympic sports. I don’t usually follow other sports during the year but I’m keen to watch as many AUSSIEs compete as I can.