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Offline trax1

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Australia's Super Bowl?
« on: August 16, 2008, 09:20:06 PM »
Was just watching the Olympics and they are running the men's 1500M swim, the announcers said that this race is Australia's "Super Bowl" of sports, and that Australia is practically shut down right now because everyone is watching this to see the guy from there country will win the Gold for the third time in a row, can this be right? 

Can any of you guys on here from Australia confirm this, or were they just over exaggerating?
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Offline Pei

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Re: Australia's Super Bowl?
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2008, 09:32:42 PM »
Hardly - it will be no different from Phelp's races in the US: lot's of people will watch and then go back to doing whatever they normally do. It might get one of the highest audiences for the year but it's not something people make a huge event out of.
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Re: Australia's Super Bowl?
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 10:13:51 PM »
Wasn't so great. But I did stop what i was doing to watch it. Shame. But he's getting to be OLD lolz
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Offline SD67

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Re: Australia's Super Bowl?
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 10:32:13 PM »
There's an Olympics on?
I thought that was just some bullpoop Chinese propaganda spectacle they were showing...
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Re: Australia's Super Bowl?
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2008, 01:44:59 AM »
Quote from: Pei on August 16, 2008, 09:32:42 PM
Hardly - it will be no different from Phelp's races in the US: lot's of people will watch and then go back to doing whatever they normally do. It might get one of the highest audiences for the year but it's not something people make a huge event out of.

What he said....the finals and grandfinals in September/October are more closely followed and popular

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