Australia
Go to any town on a Saturday morning, big or small, and chances are there is a sporting event taking place. And if you decide to attend that event you are assured to see people everywhere competing or spectating with passion and pride. People wearing team colours, performing pre-match rituals, analysing every little detail of the game.For sport is not merely a thing for spare time anymore, no sir. It is a religion, a time of worship, which brings people of all ages, races and genders together here in Australia. Young and old agree that Australians are obsessed with sport and it is undoubtedly the newest and fastest growing religion of our country. Sport is where the majority of Australians, including myself and I’m sure many of you, choose to focus their respect and admiration, and is linked to feelings of national pride. Newspapers devote entire sections of their daily news to sport, and television is no different. Foxtel has two channels which produce 24 hour a day sporting coverage and on the weekend you can’t change the channel without seeing the golf, or NRL, or AFL, or swimming or...well you get the picture. Last year in the list of shows viewed by the most people, 6 out of the top 10 shows were sporting events. And t
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Some common words found in the essay are:
, Donald Bradman, Rugby Union, Greek Pantheon, Sydney Olympics, NRL AFL, Barry Spurr, Sport One-day, Lleyton Hewitt, Olympus Greek, sporting heroes,
Approximate Word count = 947
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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