Word: commonwealthers
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...many Americans will not be familiar with the Commonwealth Games. How they could have missed out on the apparently premier sporting contest that pits, say, England’s international rugby sevens team against the mighty sides from Togo or the Cook Islands, is beyond...
...Commonwealth Games were an international irrelevance, yet they were viewed in Britain as a triumph. Never mind that England’s true national stadium in London remains an abandoned construction site as myriad committees blame each other for the project’s stagnation. The F.A. Cup, England’s main soccer competition, is forced to hold its final in a hastily converted rugby stadium—in Wales. (It is as if the Super Bowl always had to take place in the Skydome in Toronto.) But in a culture where mediocrity is expected?...
...sporting mediocrity would not be terribly interesting were it not for the population’s unshakable belief that it was still a major player in world athletics. Umpteen experts opined that there was a good possibility of Manchester getting the Olympics in 2012 on the back of the Commonwealth Games. Framingham stands a better chance...
...Commonwealth Games should have been a national embarrassment, not a cause for jubilation. That a complacent population believed that they were a roaring success is the biggest embarrassment...
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