Jon Oliver, on his HBO show Last Week Tonight, runs an occasional series called How Is This Still A Thing? Over the years he has done daylight saving, Ayn Rand, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and, in a particularly choice segment from back in 2014, the Commonwealth Games, a sort of “off-Broadway Olympics” for all the countries the British invaded once upon a time, “the historic display of a once mighty nation gathering together the countries it lost and finding a way to lose to them once more”. Which is a cruel joke. England, after all, is only second in the all-time medal table, a mere 272 golds, silvers and bronzes behind Australia.
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Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/14/commonwealth-games-shooting-fiasco-india-birmingham-2022 under the title “Shooting fiasco makes the Commonwealth Games look silly once again”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
