BBC won’t show Australia on medal table

The BBC, Olympics broadcaster in the UK, has replaced Australia on its medal table with Yorkshire.

The success of triathlon brothers Alistair and Johnathan Brownlee, and golden girl of the Games heptathlete Jessica Ennis, has added to Yorkshire's tally, giving it more gold medals than most countries.

The northern county is basking in the success of its stars with some mail boxes even being painted gold in the Ennis's hometown of Sheffield.

More than 30,000 home fans voted the Ennis gold medal as their favourite moment in a Yahoo Olympics poll.

Almost 12,000 fans (32.5 per cent of those polled) voted for the Sheffield starlet's brilliant heptathlon win, whilst Andy Murray's men's singles tennis gold at Wimbledon took second place with just over 20 per cent of the votes.

While at home the criticism has been aimed at our swimming team, in Britain, it's been aimed at the BBC.

Despite a slow start to the Games, Team GB has wowed the home crowd, but the BBC is reportedly under fire from within for too much self-promotion.

The Daily Mail reports a memo was sent to staff saying the tone of the news coverage of the Games is too patriotic.

The attacks on coverage have also been rampant in Australia with one Facebook group called "Channel 9 Olympics Coverage Sucks" gaining thousands of followers.