Go For GOLD!
Go for GOLD? or isit DIG for Gold? Now that the Olympics is over, big congrats to the Chinese with the excellent results and not forgetting the great effort by the Australian with 14 Gold medals,
Stephanie Rice GO for Gold
Australian love their sports, from AFL to Rugby to Cricket to of course Olympics. But does anyone know whats the price we pay to see our athelets get gold?
I bet no one does because I didn’t until I read the stats and I quote this,
the cost of each gold medal won by an Australian in Beijing has cost taxpayers $16.7 million (theage.com.au)
Yes almost a WHOPPING 17 million of the taxpayers money are spent on EACH and EVERY Gold medal won by the Australian athelets. If you do the maths in a blunt way, we have spent a good 50 million on Stephanie Rice.
Money well spent? Money worth spending? Value for Money?
That I do not know because to me, spending 17million dollars training our athelets to win gold seems ridicilous,
I tell you WHAT those 17 million can and ultimately SHOULD be spend on…
- More Hospitals/ Better health system (come on, people wait months to get minor surgery done)
- More Schools (teach the stupid kids now days to have better manners on the road!)
- Better roads (with less fkn potholes)
So instead, our proud Prime Minister thought it would be money better spent pouring them on bunch of athletes to get a round metallic thing around their neck (I hope they are real solid pure gold!! for that price).
My say – ridiculous!
So whats your say?