DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And now, a look at commercials from Sydney, the Australians, apparently, have a different take on Olympic ads, at least one bank does. Here's CNN's John Raedler.</s>JOHN RAEDLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Susie O'Neill is Australia's greatest butterfly swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world record holder, known affectionately as Madame Butterfly. This is her mom. (on camera): A bank here, a sponsor of the Australian Olympic Team, is running TV commercials featuring the parents of Aussie Olympians, trying to do what their famous children do. (voice-over): The ads are so popular, the parents are becoming famous.</s>BARRY WEEKES, FATHER OF WATER POLO GOALIE: When we were walking up here, a policeman come fairly close and he waved to me, rather like I do at water polo, and said: Like the ad.</s>RAEDLER: Were you a water polo player?</s>WEEKES: Never, never played -- never played a game of water polo in my life.</s>RAEDLER: And it looks that way in the ad.</s>WEEKES: So I've been told many times, many times, yes.</s>RAEDLER: The kicker to the ads is that the bank helps the athletes do what they do by sponsoring them. The creative director says he wanted the ads to be a contrast to the drama and emotion of the games.</s>RON MATHER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR: You can't compete with that in the commercial breaks, so the best way is to go the other way.</s>RAEDLER: Although most of the commercials feature parents of Aussie Olympians, some feature siblings. But, it's the parents viewers remember most. John Raedler, CNN, Sydney.</s>BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Great stuff there.
Australian Bank's Olympic Ads Feature Parents, not Olympians