Comments on: Podcast 105 – Basketball in Australia https://slowenglish.info/podcast-105-basketball-in-australia/ Podcasts about Australia for intermediate learners of English Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Rob McCormack https://slowenglish.info/podcast-105-basketball-in-australia/#comment-4617 Thu, 14 May 2020 23:10:29 +0000 https://slowenglish.info/?p=2746#comment-4617 In reply to Boban.

Hi Boban,
Many thanks for your comment. Yes, Serbia has achieved some good results in sport. In English, we have a phrase, which is ‘punches above their weight’. It means that they do better than you would expect, given their small population size (the term comes from boxing). I would say that Serbia punches above its weight in world sport. New Zealand is another example, and also Australia. Our populations are not that large, but we perform very well in sport. As to why football is so popular? That is a good question. It certainly has a massive following all around the world, including in countries who don’t perform very well internationally. I guess people just love the game.
Thanks for your comment.
Have fun learning English.
Regards,
Rob

]]> By: Boban https://slowenglish.info/podcast-105-basketball-in-australia/#comment-4616 Thu, 14 May 2020 11:01:38 +0000 https://slowenglish.info/?p=2746#comment-4616 Dear Rob,
thank you for this wanderful podcast!
As you maybe heard, Serbia has achived some good results in therms of world basketball. I consider that Serbia has a major roll in basketball world wide despite the fact that Serbia is a small country with relativly small number of inhabitants.
Our children also love to play basketball and basketball is second popular sport, like Australia, after soccer (we say football). I do not understand reason for such order in mether of therms that in football we haven’t well results for decades.
I hope that my english is not obstacle for you to understand me.
Best wishes,
Boban

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