Australia is in ninth place in the Athens Olympics medal tally following Friday night's official opening.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald's olympic games website, Australia was on 0 gold, 0 silver and 0 bronze, for a total of 0 medals. Of the 0 events decided in the Games at that point, Albania was in the lead, ahead of Algeria and American Samoa. Pity poor Zimbabwe.

Here's a screen shot from the SMH website taken on Saturday morning (right).