Howard ends up a loser

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been named Biggest Mug of the Sydney Olympics.
He took out the title in a close vote of the thousands of accredited journalists from around the world who covered the Sydney Games.
They were impressed with the absolute dedication the miniature politician displayed in trying to get his "mug" in the frame beside each and every of the 40 or so Australians responsible for the host nation's 16 gold medals.
In a sports-crazy nation, Howard clinched the Biggest Mug award in many of the sports journalists' minds when public opinion polls showed a dip in his popularity, suggesting his endeavours to have some of the magic of the games rub off on him had backfired.
Still, it was a close-run thing and Howard only just got the award ahead of three equally worthy winners. They were:
Princess Anne, for suggesting that some of the team sports should be dropped from the Olympics, a brave call indeed from the only Olympic sport where another living creature - a four-legged one at that - does all the work. Since the trap started using clay pigeons, that is.
Rugby Union legend David "Too Easy" Campese for also calling for some of the team and sillier sports to be culled, while in the same breath announcing he's got a nice little format in mind should a limited-side rugby union competition ever be introduced; and
The arsehole of an English newspaper columnist who suggested that Eric "the Eel" Moussambani's torturous 100m freestyle swimming display was a blight on the Olympic spirit of higher, faster, stronger and demanded that it never happen again. This prick probably also disapproved of Eddie The Eagle.