CANBERRA Red Schoendienst Jersey , May 15 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Sports Minister has said a TV advertisement created by online bookmaker Sportsbet must be taken off air, as it glorifies convicted steroid cheats and condones the use of performance enhancing drugs.


The betting company's latest ad campaign promotes its new Android phone app, and is titled "putting the 'roid in Android." The advertisement controversially features disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who had his 1988 Olympic Games 100m gold medal stripped after it was revealed he used performance-enhancing drugs.


Johnson was reportedly paid around 200,000 Australian dollars (145,000 U.S. dollars) for the appearance in the ad Dexter Fowler Jersey , but the nation's Sports Minister, Greg Hunt, has on Monday demanded the company "pull the ad" saying they "should know better."


"To use a known drug cheat such as Ben Johnson to advertise their product is utterly inappropriate," Hunt told News Corp on Monday.


Hunt's sentiments were backed up by Senator Nick Xenophon, head of minor party Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), who said impressionable children were watching the ads which glorified cheating.


"It is just wrong on so many levels - glorifying a drug cheat Matt Carpenter Jersey , tying it in with gambling and promoting it to kids in a light-hearted way," Xenophon said on Monday.


Despite the criticism from those in Canberra, others were quick to point out the ad's humor, in which Sportsbet promises "performance enhancement" betting on the company's new "juiced-up" phone app.


Dave Culbert, a former Olympic long jumper, said that the ad was "pretty funny Yadier Molina Jersey ," but acknowledged that many professional athletes would be upset that a convicted drug cheat could be paid so much to appear in an advertisement.


Meanwhile a spokesperson from Sportsbet responded to the criticism on Monday, declaring that while the betting company "does not condone the use of performance-enhancing drugs" the company makes "no apologies for injecting some humour into advertising."


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Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button will continue to race for McLaren next season Willie McGee Jersey , team boss Ron Dennis said at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday after both drivers had raised doubts about their Formula One futures.


Asked in the Suzuka paddock whether the frustrated world champions would be staying, Dennis replied, "Yes, what more do you want?"


"Jenson has a two-year contract," he told reporters, adding that it would remain unchanged and Button Bob Gibson Jersey , who has hinted he could retire at the end of the season, was happy with the arrangement.


"I should have taken away any doubt about our commitment to him earlier than I did."


Alonso, who assured re-porters on Saturday he would be at the Honda-powered team next year, said after the race that he did not know.


Dennis told reporters he too did not know what the Spaniard was talking about.


"I spoke to him earlier today. He has got a contract. He understands the contract. I am surprised at the comment," Dennis said.


In a very public humiliation for Honda at their home -circuit, and with the car giant's top bosses attending Stan Musial Jersey , Alonso had vented all his frustration with the underperforming -engine as he labored to 11th place - an impressive result under the -circumstances.


"I'm being passed down the straights like a GP2 [car]. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing," the double champion said over the team radio, referring to Formula One's less powerful feeder series.


Later, after being passed by Max Verstappen's Toro Rosso, he repeated "GP2 engine Ozzie Smith Jersey , GP2."


ATHENS, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Greece's Radical Left SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras was sworn in on Monday as Prime Minister as the winner of Sunday's general elections.


The 41-year-old Leftist leader took a civil oath instead of a religious oath to "serve the laws, the Constitution and the interests of Greek people" in a ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion in Athens.


A few hours earlier on Monday Tsipras had formally received from the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos the mandate to form a government for a second time in eight months.


SYRIZA won 35.5 percent of votes and 145 seats in the next 300-member strong assembly, according to the final official results released by the Interior Ministry.


On Sunday night a few hours after the closing of the ballots Tsipras and Panos Kammenos, the leader of the Right-wing Independent Greeks party (ANEL), the junior partner in Tsipras' first government from January to August Wholesale St. Louis Cardinals Jerseys , announced their intention to renew the coalition partnership.


With the 10 seats ANEL secured by garnering 3.7 of the votes, the new government will control 155 seats in the next chamber.


The announcement of its composition and swearing in ceremony were expected to be made by Wednesday noon so that Tsipras can travel later on Wednesday to Brussels to participate in the forthcoming EU summit on the migrant and refugee crisis, representing Anastasiades as well.


"I think that today Europe can realize its responsibilities in a European problem," Tsipras noted during his meeting with Pavlopoulos.


"We were given unfortunately an opportunity under this crisis to realize, in particular our partners, that at the core of the EU Wholesale Cardinals Jerseys , including the euro zone, is the human being. The currency and the economy should serve the human being," Pavlopoulos said.

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