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Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games. As they struggle to make ends meet, a spotlight is being cast on an Olympics funding system that watchdog groups condemn as “broken,” claiming most athletes “can barely pay their rent.”
The Olympics, the world’s biggest sporting stage, bring in billions of dollars in TV rights, ticket sales and sponsorship, but most athletes must fend for themselves financially.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not express concern about the situation. When asked by The Associated Press about athletes turning to OnlyFans, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said, “I would assume that athletes, like all citizens, are allowed to do what they can.”
Watching his sponsorships dry up and facing mounting costs, Jack Laugher was among the pantheon of Olympic athletes using the often-controversial platform to get to the Games — or simply survive.
Arent the olympians supposed to be “non professional”? Or maybe it used to be
Hasn’t been that way for 30 odd years. Think of Jordan’s dream team
I think this needs a bit more context. Before “the dream team” the US only sent NCAA basketball players. The same goes with all sports, including hockey. The US’s complaint was that other countries were sending their professional players. Cuba’s baseball team, the USSR’s hockey team, etc. were solely comprised of essentially professional players that did they sport for a living. It was successfully argued that this was an unfair advantage for countries with programs like this.
PS: This is why “The Miracle on Ice”, when the US beat the USSR in hockey was such a big deal. The US team was essentially a bunch college kids while the USSR was playing with arguably the best hockey players in the world at the time. It was the equivalent to Puerto Rico beating the original Dream Team in basketball.
Honestly, it’s had pros for even longer. The USSR “amateurs” were members of the Red Army whose entire job was their sport.
Are you saying they should be jobless hobos?
They should be funded by the IOC. Right now, they’re being paid by their country (if they want to have a chance of medaling).
They also rarely train inside that country or with a trainer from that country. Many of them go to the U.S. for training and stay there for years.
And how do you suggest the IOC should get the money to pay for all those ‘employees’ ?
From the article:
Ok, so the IOC should be taking that revenue away from the host country and expect them to pay for the infrastructure and staff at an even bigger loss?
Which country or city would want to do that?
It doesn’t say the host country is the one that makes the money. And I’m sure they can spare a billion or two for the athletes.
What doesn’t say the host country is the one that makes the money?
The Olympics is already operating at a net loss, with the host city/country basically footing the bill in exchange for publicity.
Do you think these cities would be happy to pay for 20.000 extra ‘employees’ for four years?
The article linked to above suggests otherwise.
Not at all
They should have a full time job to fund their hobby like normal people.
Like an OnlyFans job?
Olympic sport = hObBiE
Riiight.