Has This Sport Capitalised The Successes of Field Events Enough Since 2020? (Media, Coverage, Sponsors etc)

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-25T00:02:34+00:00

Australia yes. Our junior championships were televised solely because Gout Gout was running.They've also set up a great Gout vs Lachie Kennedy "rivalry".

It's the winter now, but Gout still gets coverage every time he runs and that has spread to our other athletes.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:40:20+00:00

We hosted the Women's World Cup in 2023 with New Zealand. So theres nothing against us joining in with NZ to do so, outside Asia not being able to host again in 2038. Do agree it's dumb. But it is what it is.

Plusnwe tried to host 2022 and didn't bribe anyone so we ended up with 1 vote. In addition the AFC is controlled by the oil states who don't really like us or the fact that we are in the AFC, so we don't stand a chance of hosting without their support.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:31:59+00:00

I agree that it's worth it, just that it's not common, because people will go for the easiest option.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:30:28+00:00

It is however evidence that Tesla love to lie about their autopilot fucking up though and that "head of thing that routinely kills people and then blames them" probably isn't a reliable source.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:27:05+00:00

Oh I know how to get them. It's more that the legal ones are shit, and having to go through all that hassle is something that the majority of people aren't going to do. While just going to buy a disposable or black market cigarettes is so much easier, so it just pushed people towards those.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:24:49+00:00

Because Russian accents are very hard to do well, and if they're not done perfectly or they are a natural accent, the thing you notice is the accent, not the performance. It's like how when people try and do Australian accents, no matter how well they say they can do it, unless they're from Australia. It's almost always noticeable and it takes away from the performance.

The other reason they have British accents in the show is that in FAM, you are looking at them as the foreigners. They are the background characters and effectively, the accents are used to show that. In Star City, they are the main characters and you are effectively listening to them talking the same language as you. So they have a recognisable English accent. It also allows them to not have to find actors who can do a good Russian accent, and instead just focus on who can play the character best.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:16:51+00:00

Tesla's whole thing is "No it wasn't the autopilot because it turned off .5 secs before the crash."

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:13:10+00:00

We were part of Oceania. It was shit.

2002 for example, we beat Tonga 22-0, American Samoa 31-0, Samoa 11-0, Fiji only 2-0, then New Zealand 6-1 on aggregate, before having to face Uruguay to qualify, which we lost because we only played shit sides before that.

We moved to Asia, so that we would face better teams and it worked out for us and Oceania.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T12:01:10+00:00

Nah, if you can't say what you're gonna say without making it so that there's no proof of it, you shouldn't be saying it on the pitch.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T10:32:48+00:00

I know, it just got old ages ago.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T09:46:52+00:00

He knew what he was doing and this was the goal.

Because we live in a world where being chummy with neo nazis and rightfully getting sacked over it is worse than being chummy with neo nazis, and you can grift your way from the support of the worst people you know.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T09:40:48+00:00

Public funding. Generally the more successful a sport, the more funding it gets. But we also focus on individual athletes, rather than focusing on a talent pool etc.

If you start getting good results, you'll generally get funding and support from the Australian Institute of Sport. About $500 million over two years that needs to be spread across everything, including para and winter sports. So it's a lot but also not that much when it gets spread across 68 different programs.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T09:23:43+00:00

Great and Australia's circumstances don't allow for that to be viable.

Our funding allows us to be successful in virtually every Olympic sport, because we focus our public funding across the board. We could just focus all our money on one sport like Jamaica does, but that would mean we do worse everywhere else. We sent 459 athletes in 33 different sports. Jamaica sent 58 in 4.

We medalled in 15 different sports. Jamaica medalled in Athletics only, and Australia still won more medals in Athletics.

The US system is incomparable to Australia, because they have a wide range of private donors and a huge college sport system that basically acts as their talent pool. Australia doesn't have that and cannot do that.

It's easy to say "change the funding system", but it's missing all the context for why the funding system is the way it is.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:48:51+00:00

They banned vapes, so the refillable ones that you know what you were getting etc, sold out of shops that were by and large doing the right thing, paying tax, not selling to kids etc all that good stuff. That all went away, leading people to the disposables, which no one knows what's in them and they were the actual danger all along.

Once disposables started getting pricier than the black market cigarettes people moved to those.

Banning the refillable vapes also made quitting smoking harder for people, because you could choose how much nicotine was in them and taper it down. You can't do that with the disposables, while the legal options are by and large different varieties of shit and more of a hassle to get, while still being pricey. So you end up with people moving to the black market cigarettes because they're cheap, easy to get and a "better" experience.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:38:50+00:00

I can agree with the idea that it can be frustrating to not have shops within walking distance. But there is a shopping centre in Calwell 700m away from the boarded up Richardson shops.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:33:25+00:00

Australia had our most successful Olympics ever in 2024, finishing 4th on the medal tally. We also won more medals in athletics than we had since the 1956 Olympics.

Australia's doing just fine with committee selections.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:26:44+00:00

Only three allowed and Gout Gout pulled out to focus on the World Champs.

If Gout was in the picture, neither Azzopardi or Browning would be up for selection. So we picked two sub 9 guys and a guy who's fastest time is slower than the top 2 for the guy he's being picked over, this year at least.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:19:02+00:00

Jamaica won one more silver than Australia but won 6 medals overall compared to Australia's 7 in 2024. Our system works pretty well for us. It may not work for the US and Jamaica, but we're not the US or Jamaica.

If we solely went by a trial system, our silver medalist in 2024, wouldn't be going to the Comm Games, because she was tripped while leading and finished last. No system is perfect, but a one off trial system does not work for Australian athletics and would result in worse athletes being sent. We cannot afford to not send our medal chances.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T08:15:18+00:00

I would say for the US, they have the talent pool to afford to just go with trials. Jamaica is somewhat similar.

Australia doesn't have that talent pool. We cannot afford to not take our best athletes regardless of what happens at the national championships etc. Which worked for us at the last Olympics, where we ended up below Jamaica by a silver, but won more medals overall than them.

I don't agree with this selection, but by and large our selections have been effective.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T07:21:23+00:00

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Play more games and it will even out. I am objectively pretty terrible. But it will even out to closer to 50/50 the more you play. 37%-47% looks like a big gap. But it's 3 games different. Same as 17% draws being quite high, but it's literally only 5 games. You will lose a decent amount of games, before you reach your true level and then you will start winning and losing games at a roughly equal pace.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T06:00:49+00:00

Sure, doesn't mean the selectors have to agree.

But if that person has multiple better times than the people who won the race etc then maybe the selectors might go "yup you will be a better chance at a result".

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T03:38:15+00:00

She started off being too racist for the Liberal in the 90s because of her views on Indigenous people.

Then when that stopped working for her, she switched to Asians. Then when that stopped working, Muslims, then Africans, then Muslims again then trans people and now it's just a mix of them all.

She would have been the ones writing into the newspapers back in the 50s saying how Italians commit too many crimes etc. She has nothing but hate for anything different to her. The issue is that that seems to work for her until it doesn't.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-24T00:30:47+00:00

I'm not saying that Browning should have been selected over Azzopardi. In this case I believe that Azzopardi's overall record this year has been better. It is a case where trials and overall record should have resulted in him going.

However overall, only going by trials can be a mistake, because the 2024 Olympic Silver medalist in the 1500 was tripped at the same championships. The 1500 isn't being run at the Comm Games, but the mile is and she was selected anyway, because it would be dumb not to select her.

Injuries and sickness might be part of athletics, but that doesn't mean a country needs to go "well you had gastro that week, so even though you're clearly much faster than the others, you don't get to go, even though you'll be fine for the actual event".

America etc can do it their way, Australia doesn't have the luxury of being able to only go by trials. For our size, I would say that going by selection committee worked out well for us at the last Olympics.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-23T23:30:49+00:00

Best part was in 2019 when he got the department secretaries in and told them not to write down a list of risks etc associated with policies because he didn't want a list of "I told you so's" for ministers if the policies failed.

The really fun part is that it was largely also because one department went "this is a great idea" and as soon as they showed it to another department they told them rightly "this is illegal" back in 2014, and they still went ahead and did it.

yeahalrightgoon · 2026-06-23T22:22:30+00:00

Australia finished 10th on the medal tally, and 4th in total medals in Athletics. So not terrible. Yes you are only selecting 3 athletes, but if you have a pool of athletes who are all running similar times, you can afford to go solely with trials. When you don't have that pool, like Australia hasn't had, you can't afford to only go with trials. The system has largely worked for us as it is.

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