The ad includes doping-related puns and muscular athletes touting the app. (Source: Sportsbet Twitter) The ad includes doping-related puns and muscular athletes touting the app. (Source: Sportsbet Twitter)A TV ad for a gambling company that features disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson making light of doping has sparked outrage in Australia, with politicians and sports officials demanding it be pulled from the air. The Sportsbet ad has Canadian Johnson, who was stripped of his 100 metres gold medal in the 1988 Seoul Games after testing positive to a banned steroid, promoting a “juiced-up” mobile phone app. “It tested positive for speed and power again and again,” says Johnson in the ad, which includes other doping-related puns and muscular athletes touting the app.

Source: Indian Express May 15, 2017 11:03 UTC