"Whinge, whinge, whinge Australia"

It's rare to see such a scathing assessment of our Olympians as in this article. The poll at the bottom is telling:

And this lovely illustration:

Read the whole article if you're interested, it's very enlightening. This particular bit of it however made me feel much vindicated in my assessment of that self absorbed wanker shooter Mark.

The generally laid back and likeable Nick Green, Australia's rookie chef de mission, has implored his athletes to stop complaining and turn their focus to the task at hand - performance.
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It has not been a good month for minority groups in the Australian camp. Shooter Russell Mark made the bizarre and bitter joke before he moved into the village that gay couples were treated better in the international Olympic teams than married heterosexual ones. On several levels it was a disappointing comment, but Mark too will most likely be better remembered after London for a litany of complaints when he should have been celebrating his sixth Games.

Mark, like Steffensen, has a history of public dissatisfaction with his lot and Green spoke for everyone close to the situation with Mark and his wife, Lauryn, when he said the outspoken couple's complaint they couldn't share a room reeked of a publicity stunt.

Something illogical seems to attack the minds of key high-profile athletes when the Olympics come around but never more so than before London.
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I do agree that it's a bad few that are spoiling it for all, but perhaps these idiots should be reminded that taxpayers sitting at home in Australia don't like seeing their country represented this way; basically as spoilt brats chucking hissy fits over nothing. It's insulting. We sit here struggling to pay bills, and this is the shit we get for our taxpayers money? 

But even more than that, even if taxpayers hadn't chucked in a single cent, these people are an embarrassment to our country. Time to get our of their protected little world, toughen up, and actually be representative of the people back home. Or have we just created some little shits here?

Maybe it's our fault a bit too. I mean some of these people just seem to have been pampered from an early age by the state teat, as they are training to be Olympians... but in doing so they've grown up in some fantasy world completely separated from the reality of Australian life.