Good advice Severn!

I missed this thread the first time around, as I was too busy trying to avoid anything to do with the Sydney Games but, having read all the posts, I am impressed by the good nature of most 'catters. I was also intrigued to see there was no reference to a wonderful parody of SOCOG's antics that was being broadcast on ABC (Oz) tv at the time. "The Games" was a brilliantly prescient take on the political machinations; almost every episode was later mirrored by reality.

The three main characters were John Clark, Brian Dawe and Gina Riley; the first two are still doing political satire every Thursday for a few minutes at the end of the ABC's "7.30 Report" a current affairs programme and I think their offerings are available on the web. Gina Riley will be known to anyone who has watched "Kath & Kim", which I gather has an international audience.

And, as you all know, we survived the Olympics, helped along by Roy and HG's merciless commentary. I never found out what happened to the American bands but I know that Nikki Webster (the flying moppet in the opening) has been regularly satirised ever since. The whole event was celebrated by all and sundry in as many ways as possible; the story got around that, from the number supplied to the athletes' village, every athlete would have used 10 each and every night of the duration of the Games. Isn't satire satisfying!

Cheers, Rowan