Seeing as there's a thread concering Canada's Medal Count, I think it's only fair to keep track of how us Aussies are doing in Torino and surrounds.

As of now, the count stands at
0 Golds
0 Silvers
0 Bronzes

Here's hoping we get something this time round, Salt Lake City was the first time we actually won a gold medal at the Cold Games - one of the most hilarious moments in Australian sporting history.

Our speed-skater, Stephen Bradbury was trailing badly, in last position of the 5 competitors, in the final of the 500m short-track speed skating final, but fortuitously for Steve, the other 4 skaters - including Apolo Ohno the favourite, all crashed into each other suffering various cuts and gashes and Bradders was able to cruise across the line - having been so far off the pace he completely avoided the crash, and claim our first Winter Gold Medal! Quite bizarre, and surely the luckiest ever gold medal awarded to anyone - because even more luckily for Bradbury, he had been last in his semi-final only for the same thing to happen and provide him with qualification to the final in the first place!

Having said that, we did win a gold medal in the Women's Aerials as well, Alisa Camplin, and we do again have (I think), the World No.1 in Women's Aerials this time round, Lydia Ieradiaconou, who went to school with my sis, so hopefully she gets up and we can all go to a big party to celebrate!

Anyhow, good luck Aussies, and I will be sure to post to this thread again if we actually manage to bag any medals!

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