60 Minutes: July 22
60 Minutes looks at how clean the Games will be just before they begin on Nine.
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This Sunday 60 Minutes looks at how clean the Games will be just before they begin on Nine.
On Demand
What you will see on Sunday night challenges all conventional notions about parenting. It may offend – perhaps even anger many of you. It’s called “attachment parenting” – a back-to-basics approach to child raising that’s becoming more and more popular with Mums here and around the world. The idea is that mothers agree to every demand a child makes – any time – day or night. They ask their permission to change a nappy, let them sleep in the grown-ups’ bed and even breastfeed them through preschool and beyond. But don’t just dismiss all of this as new age extremism. There is some compelling science behind it.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producers: Phil Goyen, Hannah Boocock
Bitter Pill
It was the greatest medical tragedy of all time – a so-called wonder drug for pregnant women that devastated thousands of lives. Thalidomide was developed by German pharmaceutical giant Grunenthal in the 1950s and sold in millions of doses to an unsuspecting world. No one knows just how many babies died. But those that did survive suffered horrific birth defects. This week brought dramatic developments in a story we’ve been following for months. And on Sunday night, in a special investigation, we reveal chilling details about the origins and creators of this evil drug.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Gareth Harvey
At Any Cost
They’ve been pushing their bodies to the limit, training like maniacs for their shot at sporting immortality. Now, in just a week’s time, our Olympic athletes will take on the best in the world. We’d like to think they’ll be competing on a level playing field. But the sad fact is, there will always be athletes who are prepared to cheat. Triple gold medallist Marion Jones caused a massive scandal when she admitted using performance enhancing drugs at the Sydney Games. And nowadays those drugs are even more sophisticated and difficult to detect. So when London organisers claim these will be the cleanest games ever, Marion isn’t convinced. Because with so much at stake, the cheats will always be a few paces ahead.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Danny
6:30pm Sunday on Nine.
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this is an episode that i am looking forward to. 1stly, the attachment parenting story. We have had other forms of it before in the forms of education and athletic endevours such as: Parents making sure to do everything possible to make sure their child succeeds in life through school and uni and the constant training self discipline and waking up at 6am for training and training again after school. So this is not anything new, its just another version of it, most likely for the same reasons as what i have mentioned above. Personally iam fine with the increase in breastfeeding however not sure about it being on demand because that part prepares kids for unrealistic expecations in terms of them getting whatever they want, which doesnt happen in life at least not when ever they want. 2nd story is well sad and a reality of the past that society wasnt aware of such goings on, the regulation was lax. In reality today its happened a long time ago i dont think the people who were hurt will get any justice partly because of the geographical hurdle. 3rd story well is the same old same old. Atheletes will always cheat or atleast there will be the tempation to. Athletes slog their way through four years of preparation and traing and qualifying to compete its innevitable that there will be some who will be lured into taking performance enhancing medications. So in saying that i think they should probably make it open slather and allow anyone who wants to cheat to cheat. At least then if everyone is on t he drugs in a weird way the games or races will be fair.