Trust an Australian sub-editor to come up with a good joke
http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21115600,00.html
but I think [censored] Pound has already been smoking dope; sports doping
BIGGER than global crack smack and wacky baccy combined?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_6290000/newsid_6295500/6295573.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm
That would be about $280bn a year*
Australia's annual per capita funding of elite sport is about $7.50**;
if the whole world spent at the same very high level, it would still
only be $45bn per year. Pound is suggesting that the market value of
performance enhancing drugs is over 7 times the budget of the world's
national sports governing bodies.
In England, 6.3% of people report exercising 'every day'***, which
places an upper limit on the number of competitive sports
participants. If 5% of the world's population (300 million or so) is
involved in competitive sport, they're each spending nearly $1000 per
year on performance enhancing drugs according to Pound
*http://www.havocscope.com/Drugs/drugs.htm 2005 figures
**http://bjsm.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/38/6/666 for the 4 years up to
Athens Olympics
***http://www.sportengland.org/news/press_releases/england_sporting_nation_or_armchair_fans.htm
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