It's kinda hilarious that athletes are riding public transport, I think in most countries the host created personal bus/drivers for every country team but France was like frick you and rise the public transport cost by 2
Burger gold medalist only earn 38k it could be somewhat suitable if you do swimming or any other sport where you can win 20 medals but for example basketball or soccer, you'll get more money from an single pro game than this and if you do pro games you'll lose access to olympics.
So most olympics athletes probably from rich families.
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Yeah Olympians get frick all in most countries. Your only real hope is to get gold in one of the popular events and multiple of them but aside from that in most cases you're shit out of luck. If your country remembers your existence outside of those events it's only ever for this and the next Olympic year. The rest of the cycle in between you're often on your own.
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If you medal in the Olympics as a Gook Moid you get exempted from conscription.
Apparently it is the financial equivalent of about winning $200k burgerbucks.
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