We’ve won our 4th ever Winter Olympics Gold Medal: The Age.
Of course everyone in Australia knows who won the first one, and it will be a story for the ages: Steven Bradbury is 4th in the final and looks out of it, and then the 3 people ahead crash into each other, allowing him to win.
But I digress: how is it that Australia has gone from Winter Games minnow to moderately successful in the last 10 years?
Skiing has always been expensive here: I can remember as a kid only the richest in school went on skiing holidays because it was that expensive, and if you’ve ever checked prices today, it still is ($100-$200/ day for a lift pass etc.)
But I wonder whether Australia’s growing affluence may be reflected in our increased share of Winter Olympic gold?
That is: more people can afford to ski locally AND fly overseas and do it vs in the past.
The stats show every year record numbers of Australian’s holidaying offshore, and some of them might be heading for the snow as well.
I haven’t checked any stats, but I’d love to know if you could chart affluence against Australian Winter sport success.
Many many congratulations to the Australia for winning the titles, I would like to appreciate them personally. Thanks for sharing the information with us!
It makes me feel very effluent, Kimmy.
Common affluence from industries?
when is australia going to get the australian winter olympics in stead of the northern hemispere getting it all the time
’m still waiting for some interesting thoughts from your side in your next post.
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hi,
congratulation for this Olympics Success….I hope it will be continue in future