FEDERAL Sports Minister Kate Ellis has made good on her promise to don a British Olympics team shirt after losing a bet with her British counterpart on the medal count.
Ms Ellis and British Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe wore matching British shirts at the wheelchair basketball match between Australia and Great Britain on day two of the 2008 Paralympic Games, Britain`s Daily Telegraph reported.
Britain won 19 gold medals to Australia`s 14 at the Beijing Olympics.
"Kate`s a great sport to honour our bet. But after all, we did win fair and square, with our fantastic athletes proving just how good our elite sport can be," Mr Sutcliffe told the paper.
"The bet was a bit of light-hearted fun, but I`m thrilled that we had such unprecedented success at the Olympics, putting us in fourth position ahead of great sporting nations like Australia."
Great Britain finished fourth on the table, two places ahead of Australia.
Ellis took the defeat well.
"It`s great that there`s a healthy rivalry between our two nations and I congratulate Great Britain on their success at the Olympics," she said in the Telegraph.
"I`ll eat a little humble pie, along with the Australian team, and we`ll work a little harder for our future success," she said.
hahahahahaha, you are STILL making excuses for falling behind Britain, all that per capita nonsense and how England needed scotland, wales and Nth Ireland to help. So sad, it really is. http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aus1gm1.jpg
Posted by: Michael of Subi 2:48pm today
Oooooooooooooowwww Kevin of Long reach and short attention span, no need to get so bitter and twisted man. Chill its people like you who get the Aussies the name they have JAFA'sLighten up the Aussie obsession about beating the poms, borders on pathetic tedium, and is becomming obnoxious. If you dont want to end up more hated than the Yanks for being big headed and loud mouthed, I suggest you pull the head in a bit. By the way JAFA is what the English call the Aussies over thereJust Another F***ing Aussie. Suppose the loud Ozzie accent has taken the pressure off the loud American accent.
Posted by: U Jack of WA 2:39pm today
Oh I love that. I remember her, she seemed really cool.
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