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Australia's Sports Obsession

NPR

Published September 4, 2000 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on Australia's love affair with sports. While many Australians aren't really complaining about billions of taxpayer dollars spent preparing for the summer games, others say the obsession goes too far.