Oz: Oz Sport
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Caption: Sport sport sport for a sports mad country

Blurb: An objective view of the national pastime, in it's various
shapes, styles and seasons.



Australia is sports mad. Absolutely obsessed. If it bears any
resemblance to a sport, it will have a bunch of Aussies standing at
the sidelines yelling at their favourite player or team. Some of the
more popular sports among Aussies are:



Cricket



The day long or longer matches that this sport provides are excellent
opportunities to have a relaxing day sitting in the stands with a pie
in one hand, a beer in the other and multi coloured zinc cream all
over your face. Streakers are popular, umpires are not and the
cricketers themselves are living legends.



Football



In Oz, this comes in three codes, Australian Rules (AFL), Rugby Union
and Rugby League. Each has an avid following which varies from state
to state, ie Victorians are AFL mad, New South Welshmen are Rugby
League mad, etc. Note that football does not mean soccer, all
versions of football are played with an oval ball.



Tennis



We Aussies have a proud tradition in the game which goes back to the
days of Rosewall and his mates. Pat Rafter and Mark Phillipousis are
keeping the tradition going, not to mention the Woodies, who have won
5 straight Wimbledon titles. Our Lleyton recently became the world's
youngest number 1 as well.



Swimming



This has become particularly popular of late, due to the likes of
various Superfish such as Kieran Perkins, Daniel Kowalski, and
recently Michael Klim and Ian Thorpe (the Thorpedo).



Motorsport



Races like the Bathurst 1000 are great proving grounds for the
endless Ford v's Holden battle. Modified sedan racing is more popular
than something like formula 1, but not by much.



Others



Australia is also good at Netball and Hockey, and has class leading
representatives in such sports as cycling and athletics.



Not so Good Sports



While it sometimes seems hard to believe, Australia is also bad at
some sports. While there is a healthy basketball code here, our
talents wain behind the world's best. Australia also features
numerous top grade soccer players, but can't seem to get itself into
the World Cup. Also, if it involves snow or ice, we're hopeless
(mostly).










Images on this page:
	Image:
		Filename:    Sport/Pat-Cash.jpg
		Caption:     Pat Cash
	Image:
		Filename:    Sport/Boxers.jpg
		Caption:     Father & Son Boxing Team
	Image:
		Filename:    Sport/Ford.jpg
		Caption:     Racing Ford
	Image:
		Filename:    Sport/AIS.gif
		Caption:     The Australian Institute of Sport


Links on this page:
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.ausport.gov.au/aismenu.html
		Name:        The AIS
		Description: Homepage of the Australian Institute of
		Sport
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.cams.com.au/
		Name:        CAMS
		Description: The Confederation of Australian Motor
		Sport
	Link:
		URL:         http://www.v8brutes.com.au/
		Name:        V8 Ute racing
		Description: A truly Australian version of motorsport


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Bibliographical information:
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  + Title	Oz: Oz Sport
  + Creator	Starweb Document Generator V2.6
  + Subject	Australian Sport
  + Description	A brief and broad description of things
		Australian
  + Publisher	Lukas Tan
  + Contributor
  + Date	2003-05-05
  + Type	Content
  + Format	text/plain
  + Identifier	C:\Documents and Settings\Lukas\My
		Documents\Homepage\Oz\Sport.txt
  + Source	Sport.swx
  + Language	en
  + Relation	txt.swt
  + Coverage	Australia
  + Rights	Under Australian law, copyright of this document
		falls with it's publisher (Lukas Tan). Permission is
		granted for the use of the content of these pages for
		non - commercial educational purposes, provided that
		appropriate acknowledgement is given.
  + URL		http://www.effect.net.au/lukastan/Oz/