What percentage of Olympic athletes are sponsored?

Question

What percentage of U.S. olympic athletes recieve some sort of financial compensation for their stents on the team from sponsors?

Answer 1

These days, probably all of them.



But before decrying the current situation as symbolic of an irreversible doomsday spiral, remember the alternative. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) used to force all its athletes to be "amateurs". In theory it meant no Olympian could receive compensation of any sort. In practice it meant most Olympians were forced to take vows of poverty. The hypocrisy was rampant. It was legal to give an ice skater the best rink time on freshly cleaned ice but illegal to give him/her new laces or buy them lunch. Many American athletes were so destitute they were eligible for food stamps while Soviet Bloc athletes legally received the very finest their countries had to offer.



However you feel about corporate sponsorship, I think we can agree the system that more money that is exchanged over, not under, the table, the better.



BTW, you meant to use the word "stints", not "stents". A stint is a briefly held job. A stent goes in a blood vessel to keep it from collapsing, usually from arteriosclerosis.



Hey Greggie: I see all kinds of problems with the Occupy movement: the lack of a message or achieveable objectives, mixed messages, and a demand that law and order be applied to those in power but not themselves. But I don't rail about that. You clearly know nothing about sport, as you've clearly demonstrated. Let's see. The IOC was so immersed in covering up the 1988 Ben Johnson steroid incident (which mysteriously made all the papers when stripped of his gold medal) that they allowed a Georgian luger to be killed 22 years later. The IOC is so unconcerned about safety (i.e. the luge track) that they won't allow women to ski jump. Those only make sense if you're determined to reach those conclusions. But feel free to chime in on anything else you think you know; I can always use a laugh.

Answer 2

A very good question.The IOC movement is so rife with corruption, arrogance and incompetence....and therefore opaque, that your question can never be answered. There was a bimbo chick on Canadian TV, just before the Winter event in Vancouver...a marquis member of Canada's team...on the air, begging and pleading for the glorious Olympic movement...and the need to GIVE to the movement. I'm not quoting, but it went something like this:......." ..the Games permit us to reach our personal best(s).........and it's good for the country, too......." ????????????

What an idiot. IOC people are wannabe aristocrats who go first class all the way, participating in their stupid events. They do not even administer it properly. And Carl Lewis has always had the last laugh. He is said to have run as fast as Johnson. HE, like Ben Johnson, must have been on the same drugs, to run equally as fast. Did anyone ever think of that? No, the IOC oafs were too busy covering up their criminal responsibility in the death of the Georgian ice-sledder. If such an event would have occurred in the States, they would have sued the IOC back into the Stone Age. Here in Canada, like the saps we are, we allowed the IOC to run rough-shod over Canadian law, refusing women to ski-jump, and certifying for safe use, an ultra-treacherous ice track, that killed a young Georgian man, who was held responsible for his own death. And we see all the good, the Games have done for Greece. Millionaires watching millionaires. I hope to see protestors riot throughout the Games in London. How can they rationalize the expenditure of such vast sums, on what basically is an elitist entertainment for rich fools, with the growing Debt Crisis, and the looming CLASS WAR. How?

Drug-laced athletes, performing in rigged events on an un-even playing field. HEY !!!!....What else could one ask for??? I ask for football hooligans to OCCUPY THE GAMES. IOC...OUT...OUT...OUT.

Answer 3

no longer asserting dishonest is sturdy. Or for particular they're below 16 because there is no confusing evidence. yet what "many international locations" considered human rights violation/toddler abuse do not continually applies to china. Being experienced on the nationwide crew = getting a much better existence than something of the inhabitants. and they are almost guaranteed a sturdy pastime once they retire from the pastime. To the poster decrease than... The age decrease hardly protect the toddler from damage. it really is unnecessary. you imagine basically because they could't compete until eventually they're 16 they received't start up coaching at 5? and maximum international championship outdoors of olympics do not actually have the age decrease in position.