For a sporting nation we’re not very sporting
30 September 2008
When Adam Gilchrist ‘walked’ during the semi-final of cricket’s World Cup in 2003, it was front page news across the land.
Why? Because such an act of sportsmanship, by an elite Australian athlete, was deemed to be so rare. Yet, perhaps Gilchrist would have been an exception at any time.
Have we mythologised our past to disguise the reality – that a ‘win’ is a ‘win’ – at any cost?
Indeed, looking beyond the sporting arena, have Australians in all walks of life embraced the motto, ‘do whatever it takes’?
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