Game Show Olympics

Public interest in the Winter Olympics has dropped to an all time low. For many years spectators have complained about being stuck out in the cold and the stupidity of the events. Despite saturation advertising, ticket sales for the upcoming games have been very disappointing. The International Olympic Committee's announcement is expected to bring new life to the Olympic movement. Unlike the Summer Olympics, where only the very best elite athletes are able to compete, the Game Show Olympics will allow ordinary people to become Olympians. The official languages of the Olympic movement, French and English, will be used during competition and a special translating service will be provided by the United Nations to allow contestants from all countries to compete.

The 2010 Game Show Olympics will feature events that have world-wide appeal including: Wheel of Fortune, the Price is Right, the Weakest Link, Who wants to be a Millionaire, Family Feud, Jeopardy, Supermarket Sweep, It’s a Knockout and Sale of the Century. The recent Brainiest Kid phenomenon will feature and be opened to contestants of any age. Bidding for the Australian TV rights will be a hard fought competition between Channels 7, 9 and 10 and viewers can expect some old game show formats to be brought back to Australian television screens in the near future. Other, less popular, game shows have been excluded from the Game Show Olympics and unfortunately, none of the ABC’s current or past crop of game shows have qualified for inclusion.

The Australian Institute of Sport announced that they have received a $17 million grant from the Federal Government to build a state-of-the-art training television studio and to recruit coaching staff from amongst current and past game show hosts. For each of the Olympic events, winners from the Australian versions of the game shows will be invited to train at the Australian Institute of Sport with Olympic selection being limited to only two contestants in each event. The introduction of the Game Show Olympics will bring new challenges for the Australian Sports Drug Agency. Red cordial has been added to the schedule of banned substances for its well documented effects of making people over-excitable but the development of a simple urine test is still in its infancy.

The 2010 Game Show Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada, the city which won the right to host the cancelled Winter Olympics and for subsequent games, cities will bid for the right to host the games. Australians have long been avid fans of television game shows and Adelaide is already planning to cash in on the game show bonanza by launching a bid for the 2014 games led by 'Baby' John Burgess.

 

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