I once worked for RBC, and still have a lot of their branded material around. It was an okay employer for the time.

However I simply have to get something off my chest about RBC's sponsorship of the Canadian Olympic team: Do they have to milk it so much?

So far watching the Olympics I have been subjected to probably 200 RBC ads (in the FIRST DAY) where they glowingly talk about how selfless and important they are to the Olympic team. In one particularly vile ad they give a mock-up of a 1947 event when the hockey team needed funding to get to the Olympics and an RBC rep, upon being asked, replies "I think we can do something" (which was nebulous enough to make me wonder if they fully paid...or they partly paid, or if they only offered a line of credit).

I am curious to know how much RBC actually gave the Olympic team compared to how much they've spent telling everyone about how much they've given. I suspect (completely baseless speculation) that the latter represents a much, much larger number.

Sort of like the tobacco company that gave $100K of food to a foodbank, and then spent tens of millions telling everyone about it.