RE: It just HAD to happen- Olympics thread
August 7, 2012 at 6:03 am
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2012 at 6:03 am by Darth.)
(August 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:Also I believe that precious taxpayers money should not be spent on trying to win more medals at both the Commonwealth and Olympic Games
I could not agree more. The Olympic games are a series of competitions between professional athletes to see who will get most lucrative endorsements. Above all, the Olympic games are cynical, multi BILLION dollar industry. In my opinion, not one cent of taxpayer's money should be spent on them.
Here there is a fascination programme on public TV called "Gruen Sweat' about the games and big business.
Don't know if the clip below can bee seen outside of Oz.
http://media.theage.com.au/entertainment...69168.html
http://media.theage.com.au/entertainment...69168.html
AAAAND... interestingly enough 'the pitch' (the segment of that show where they bring in 2 ad agencies to make competing ads for weird/controversial things) in the first episode of gruen sweat was about letting olypmic atheletes use preformance enhancing drugs, which was talked about earlier in the thread.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruensweat/episodes/ep01.htm
Almost certain that link won't work for non aussies (without some effort )