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2) Why do the AFL get government support anyway? They make money from the $2.8 billion TV rights deal, plus money from attendance, merchandise, and other sources. I read a few years ago that the AFL is the fifth most profitable venture in Australia. The money they make out of Grand Final tickets alone makes a pretty penny for them. So they can tell the government to get stuffed, because they can survive without one cent of taxpayers' money.
Also, why do they operate under the auspices of WADA? The only reason that the AFL even went under the WADA code was to make themselves "look good" and at the "forefront of sports testing". That was an Andrew Demetriou idea, who cares more about what people outside of football think, than the fan who attends every week. The AFL thought that they would get pats on the back for willingly submitting themselves to the WADA code. Well, they were wrong. The AFL should tell WADA to f... off as well.
2) Why do the AFL get government support anyway?
Officially, because encouraging sport at high levels encourages it a lower levels, and keeping people active improves the general health and wellbeing of the people of the country.
Unofficially, there are votes in being associated with popular things.
she's British so definitely not a drug cheat.Lizzie Armistead drug cheat then? Or just a poor time manager?
gordonstoun timbertop geelong grammar muscular christianity and chariots of fire. the film. and you need to know the film to unnerstan the #Poe's_lawshe's British so definitely not a drug cheat.
the astounding improvements in their cycling and athletics programs over the last few years have all come from hard work and lottery money.
Clyde palmer has kids with gina rheinhart....Waiting for the day they get into genetic engineering and just plonk down some guy who's been engineered to fill the entire mouth of a soccer goal.
Clyde palmer has kids with gina rheinhart....
Degustation more likedevolution...
is that a portmanteau of clyde packer and clive palmerClyde palmer has kids with gina rheinhart....
get stock brokers to refrain from inside trading and vizard. that ill work innitGet athletes to sign contracts between the olympic body and the athlete that states that if they return a positive drug sample, they will be precluded from competing at the olympics. Unfortunately, the individual sporting federations hold the power. Each controlling body in each country would need to draw up a contract that states that the athlete would never represent their country if they returned a positive sample.
Another approach would be for people to stop buying Nike products if that company continues to sponsor druggie athletes like Maria Sharapova.... of course that would require people to refrain from bolsering their self-worth by wearing clothing made in Indonesian and Chinese sweatshops. Sounds too hard to me...
only the extremely stupid, desperate or greedy test positive so athletes could sign any contract you like and it wont make one iota of difference.Get athletes to sign contracts between the olympic body and the athlete that states that if they return a positive drug sample, they will be precluded from competing at the olympics. Unfortunately, the individual sporting federations hold the power. Each controlling body in each country would need to draw up a contract that states that the athlete would never represent their country if they returned a positive sample.
Another approach would be for people to stop buying Nike products if that company continues to sponsor druggie athletes like Maria Sharapova.... of course that would require people to refrain from bolsering their self-worth by wearing clothing made in Indonesian and Chinese sweatshops. Sounds too hard to me...
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get stock brokers to refrain from inside trading and vizard. that ill work innit
I actually wouldn't be too fussed. Not because of any lack of care but the opposite. Currently the IOC and WADA have consistently stripped athletes/sportspeople YEARS after an event. Once better testing and samples are re-analysed. Ironically I then feel anyone innocent , in the short term will feel the wrath , but will ultimately be found not guilty and reinstated.So, the questions are these. What is WADA gets it wrong one time? What if, in their pursuit of getting guilty drug cheats, they get someone who gets convicted on flimsy evidence, only for later more evidence comes to light that clears them?
Officially, because encouraging sport at high levels encourages it a lower levels, and keeping people active improves the general health and wellbeing of the people of the country.
Unofficially, there are votes in being associated with popular things.
I actually wouldn't be too fussed. Not because of any lack of care but the opposite. Currently the IOC and WADA have consistently stripped athletes/sportspeople YEARS after an event. Once better testing and samples are re-analysed. Ironically I then feel anyone innocent , in the short term will feel the wrath , but will ultimately be found not guilty and reinstated.
So, it seems that the govt get more out of it than the AFL.
So then, why doesn't the AFL tell the government to shove their drugs testing program, since the AFL has nothing to lose (except their "reputation" by media commentators who, if it wasn't this, would criticise something else the AFL do instead)? This money can be used on better things, and the AFL will go along making money on its own, and running the competition its own way.