Stephen Jones is an Olympic Kiwi-baiting champ

Stephen Jones, the Welsh rugby journalist who has long bagged the All Blacks, has now turned his attention to the New Zealand Olympic team, labelling their performance in London "a joke".

Jones took to Twitter to voice his opinion on New Zealand's performance, laughing off our nine medals, including three golds, as a "non-performance".

"NZ classic! NZ paper claims that since they have low population they are per capita havin great Games," he tweeted. "So ultimate loser excuse found!"

"That is the all time, classic, bleeding heart rubbish statistic of the terminal loser," he went on to say.

Never mind that the medal tally by population was originally published by UK paper The Guardian. As of the last update, New Zealand were fourth and Great Britain were 12th.

"By NZ's desperate excuse standards of low population I make Isle of Muck (the smallest island in the Small Isles of Scotland) rugby champions of the World".

Even as the criticism for Jones' anti-New Zealand tirade began to roll in, the Welshman wasn't finished.

"Your team is a total joke. So much for the land of the great outdoors. Gives real sports nations a laugh though."

Jones, who said Wayne Barnes had given one of the great refereeing displays in the 2007 World Cup quarter-final between France and the All Blacks, was positively hostile when engaged by Kiwi defenders.

When one tweeter replied to Jones with: "Ah, vitriol, the last retort of the man with no grace or intelligent argument", all the Welshman could muster was "you should know Dickhead". Another challenger got "who asked you Twerp?".

Jones had a very different attitude towards Australia though, who until this morning were behind New Zealand on the official medal tally.

He lauded Sally Pearson's 100m hurdles win, giving her credit for performing under immense pressure.

Pearson, Australia's surest hope for gold, has been consistently beating her opponents by metres over the last year but had to rely on a photo finish this morning.

There was no mention of Hamish Bond and Eric Murray, who like Pearson have dominated their sport yet produced an emphatic row to win gold in the men's pair.

He retweeted one post that said: "I thought they were meant to be good at sailing, any medals in that?", obviously unaware New Zealand had wrapped up a silver in the men's 49er and our duo of Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie are in the gold medal spot in the women's 470.

He even had a smarmy response when someone raised the point that Wales doesn't compete at the Olympics as an independent country, but under the banner of Great Britain, saying "btw your 'athlete' in the Triathlon just finished", approximately 10 hours after the men's triathlon concluded.

Ad Feedback Jones has long been critical of the All Blacks, in 2010 he said the haka was an "instrument of the worst kind of sporting arrogance", and he didn't miss a chance to criticise the number of players from the Pacific Islands who choose to play for New Zealand.

This might be a case of the pot calling the kettle black however, with a British cyclist earlier this week admitting to crashing on purpose to get a restart. It was later claimed the cyclist's comments had been lost in translation...because he was German.

"NZ classic! NZ paper claims that since they have low population they are per capita havin great Games," he tweeted. "So ultimate loser excuse found!"

"That is the all time, classic, bleeding heart rubbish statistic of the terminal loser," he went on to say.

Never mind that the medal tally by population was originally published by UK paper The Guardian. As of the last update, New Zealand were fourth and Great Britain were 12th.

"By NZ's desperate excuse standards of low population I make Isle of Muck (the smallest island in the Small Isles of Scotland) rugby champions of the World".

Even as the criticism for Jones' anti-New Zealand tirade began to roll in, the Welshman wasn't finished.

"Your team is a total joke. So much for the land of the great outdoors. Gives real sports nations a laugh though."

There will be people yelling at their computer screens over this.

You lads report what he says?

Even our basest trolls are more sophisticated than Jones.

He really does come across like a whiny little bitch. He used to produce semi-coherent articles but it appears he's had some sort of head injury and now writes like a total spastic.

Jones has got worse and worse, if thats possible. His twitter feeds are terrible, just him acting the cunt. I just dont get why he would troll NZ, a country as far away around the world from where he lives as possible, with a small population, 99% of which wouldnt even know who the hell he is. In effect he's trolling probably a few thousand Kiwis at most. I wouldnt have even heard about this chump if not for PR.

He must have had some kind of horrifically embarassing situation in his life caused by a Kiwi and he cant let it go.

Im probably wrong, but have heard it bantered about that his wife got gang banged by a touring kiwi rugby side!?

I dont know how the Times getting away publishing his shit!

It’s utterly bizarre that a journalist indulges in this stupid playground-level abuse, but he scores every time your media reports it.

Deny him his oxygen and treat him with the contempt that he deserves and he will recede disgracefully into the ether.

How does he score though? No Kiwis are going to pay money to read an article by him (although they might have had a look before the paywall went up) so he can only be targeting Brits. I can't imagine that he endears himself all that much with them either with this stuff. Some of his responses on Twitter have to start bringing The Times into disrepute.

Apart from the sick pleasure that all trolls get in the performance of their art, I can't quite see how he wins as a result of this.

He's having a go at young girls about what they look like in their Twitter profile pics

What a classless cunt, he really doesn't get Twitter does he?

He's quite a handsome chap

He's quite a handsome chap

Oh piss off, you shopped his eyes there surely.

Ah FFS looks like the Kiwis have all got a hold of his stream....We can't bloody help ourselves

That's when he shows his true colours.

Generally his replies consist of:

"I'm a UK Sports Writer of the Year. Who are you"

"No one asked you, twerp"

"I'm smarter than you"