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Ok, I realise that it is not everyone's thing, or that it is not as *big* as the Olympics, but I am astounded at the lack of coverage in Canada for the 2006 Commonwealth Games that kicked off in Melbourne last night.

I for one enjoy these games immensly for many reasons, largly because my native NZ usually puts forward a large and quite successful team of athletes, along with that, the fact that the USA can't compete and dominate things.

Leading up to the Games I saw little to no coverage on Canadian networks that the games were even on. People I spoke with were surprised to hear it was a Commonwealth Games year, and I have to wonder does Canada not care about these athletes so much? Does only the Olympics earns so much media coverage? After all there was no shortage of hours of footage on both CBC and TSN for that event.

If anyone else knows different, feel free to let me know, but all I can find for coverage is one lousy hour.. yes one! on CBC at 3pm PST each day. Is this it? I mean seriously, this is the best that anyone can come up with? Now I realise I am not going to see a whole lot of the New Zealand team living here, but really, I would have expected better than this. I have to wonder how those Canadians who perhaps have friends and family competing must be getting on....