Sport Nation

If you are born in Australia, your chance to get an Olympic medal becomes twice as high compared to a German and five times higher than that of an American. Australian sportsmen won 3.78 medals per million inhabitants in the Olympic games in Atlanta 1996. Even though they have besides the Olympic disciplines Australian Football and Cricket as popular sports. This nation you can truly call sports-minded. Thus you can almost believe the following crazy story: A man goes to the Grand Final in Melbourne and is surprised to find out that the seat next to him is empty.

As the tickets were sold out months before the game this cannot really be the case. Thus the man asks the other guy who is sitting on the other side of the empty seat if he knows more. The old man replies: ‘This is the seat of my wife who passed away.’ The other guy reflects and asks:’ Didn’t you have the chance to give the ticket to a friend or a relative?’ The old guy gives him a puzzled look and replies: ‘They are all busy. They are at the funeral.’