Fatso is one of strangest stories of the games so far and it has refused to die down.
The appearance of Fatso on the medal dais with several medal winning Australian athletes is threatening to scupper a multi million-pound marketing campaign promoted by the Australian Olympic Committee. The AOC has bought the rights to the boxing kangaroo from failed tycoon Alan Bond and on Monday the Committee launched it as the official Australian games mascot. Grant Hackett, Susie O'Neill and Michael Klim and the men's 4 x 100 m relay team shared the podium with a stuffed version of the marsupial , which waddles across the TV screen leaving droppings in its wake during replays of inglorious moments. I think we got four at one stage. Then I went and watched it all on television.