Commonwealth Games

[The Doctor]

Woohoo Canada is fourth, yeah I watch these results on highlights only. The biggest thing here in Canada happened before the games began and that was due to the conditions in India in the athlete village. I guess they were deplorable but were fixed up somewhat. With the MLB playoffs and hockey starting these get a small mention near the end of the sports shows in the am.

[Zhukov]

Cricket has only been played once, apparently, in Malaysia in 1998. I don't even have to finish reading the wikipedia article to know that Australia must have thrashed everyone. It's too long to play properly in an event like the Commonwealth games, but organisers want to bring it back for the Glasgow 2014 games in a revised ... oh, you've stopped reading.


I only like the Commonwealth Games because places like The Isle of Man and Norfolk Island get to compete, whereas if they even thought about entering the Olympics they would get laughed out of existence.