Get Nicked: Nugget shortages, table tennis and moonlighting as a drug dealer

At what age do you stop letting a child win at sport?

That's the question Commonwealth Games table tennis players are asking themselves, after the entry of Welsh 11-year-old Anna Hursey.

There's no doubt Anna is a talent, which is evident by her performance on the Gold Coast on Thursday.

Hursey and her teammate Charlotte Carey would eventually be defeated by India's Madhurika Patkar and Mouma Das.

Which must come as some relief for Patkar and Das.

You don't want to celebrate a win over a primary school student too much, but you certainly don't want to lose to her on the world stage.

Anna was unable to take questions after her match, but Carey was able to give some insight into being a pre-teen Commonwealth Games athlete.

"She needs to go to bed a bit earlier than us," Carey said.

"We need to try and stop her from drinking about 12 Powerades that are just hanging around in the fridges for free."

All the best Anna. You've got a great future ahead of you.

Making a hash of it

It's been a bad week for McDonald's sides in Melbourne.

Last Thursday a product recall meant several Victorian McDonald's outlets ran out of hash browns.

And yesterday an overturned truck spilled more than a million chicken nuggets onto the road.

Get Nicked is not the most gifted mathematician (which explains the career in journalism), but a million chicken nuggets seems like a big blow to the stockpile.

And a nugget shortage could have a flow-on effect. With no nuggets, there's going to be an oversupply of condiments.

Be wary of any sweet-and-sour McFlurry promotions this weekend, Melburnians.

Side gigs

A former Rio Tinto executive has been jailed until at least 2020 for his role in a major cocaine smuggling operation.

Bennet Schwartz, 29, was linked to 25kg of coke being shipped into Australia.

His drug smuggling operation was conducted while he was working at the mining giant.

Now Get Nicked is just about the least likely person to get involved in international drug trafficking.

But we have to ask, what's the appeal of a high-risk, highly paid gig as a cocaine dealer if you have to keep your day job?

We like to imagine drug kingpins living lavish lifestyles in Miami mansions, not clocking in at 9am each morning for conference calls about the price of iron ore.

If you still have to go to work each day, why be a cocaine smuggler too?

Mind you, Scarface would be a much better movie if Al Pacino's character was doing his misdeeds during his annual leave.

The Crafty Cockney

The Ian Thorpe of darts has died this week.

At least, that is how Eric Bristow was described to Get Nicked this week.

Bristow was a six-time world champion in the sport, but his career was stymied midway by a case of dartitis, which became apparent at the Swedish Open.

Dartitis is a condition similar to the yips in golf. We swear we are not making this up.

Bristow revelled in being booed, and thrived in the face of sustained jeering by the crowd.

He retired from competitive darts in 2007 before his fatal heart attack on Thursday.

Vale.