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Aussie vs Kiwi

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Posted by: auksiron2

4th Feb 2011 05:39pm

I find it astounding that the Australian sports person and general public seem to get hyped everytime they come up against any Kiwi sports team/person.
Why does the average aussie do that?
When you make a comparison to population and size australia you far outweigh the kiwi's. Please someone enlighten me why Australia feels the need to compete in most levels of sports to a country that's not even 1/2 the population and size of oz.
Hmmmm...methinks it's beause at the end of the day kiwis are superior sports people. And forever we remain sooooo


awsewell
  • 16th Feb 2011 09:55am

Australians and Kiwis both take their sport very seriously, and we compete in many of the same sports (rugby union, league, cricket, hockey, cycling, etc). That and our close proximity to each other and our great distamce to the rest of the western world keeps us very close with rivalry inevitably occuring. We take our rivalries with England much more seriously but we do enjoy a healthy rivalry with NZ. Without rivalry sport becomes somewhat boring, rivalry creates passion. The underarm bowling incident was poor but it was within the rules and even without it Australia probably would have won anyway (NZ were only playing for a tie off that ball). Take a look at the Commonwealth Games, Australia took home a stack of gold medals but the most interest was in the gold medal matches between Australia and NZ (mens hockey, netball, 7s rugby). For the most part, Australians like to see NZ get up, as long as it is not against us.


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