Ch 7's opening ceremony commentary last night had Johanna Griggs bringing up each country's wars/atrocities and other irrelevant oddities
while Hamish was comparing each country's population size to the MCG
.
Mongolia enters ...
Johanna Griggs: (quoting wikipedia) "Bruce, it's the world's most sparsely populated."
Iraq enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "This is still their eleventh olympics since 1980 despite all the Iraq-related wars."
Myanmar enters ...
Johanna Griggs: 'Better known as Burma... the coup ... Aung San Suu Kyi.'
Rwanda enters ...
Bruce McAvaney: "Rwanda have been through some terribly hard times..."
Johanna Griggs: "But they've still managed to make it to ten Olympics, Bruce."
Niger enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "Interesting fact, 70% of the population of this country is under 20" [ed. due to conflict]
Oman enters ...
Johanna Griggs: "Isla Fisher, our fabulous Australian actor and partner of Sasha Baron Cohen, was actually born there."
Cambodia enters ...
Johanna Griggs: '... "activities" of the Khmer Rouge ...'
China enters ...
Bruce McAveney: "China is not as strong at swimming as they once were."
Johanna Griggs: "Yeah, there's probably a reason for that."
Johanna Griggs: "I'm excited for the Americans vs USA in the pool."
And every time a small nation entered the stadium ...
Hamish McLachlan: "Hey Bruce, did you know their whole nation's population could fit inside the MCG."
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