Die Kanadierin Sarault hat bisher 55.000 US-Dollar für ihre drei Medaillen verdient. Wäre sie Italienerin, wäre es fast das Siebenfache
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/short-track-speed-skating/milano-cortina-money-medals-courtney-sarault-chris-jones-feb17-9.7093565
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Sounds like a country trying to ensure they have a high medal count when they’re hosting.
I mean if you want medals isn’t it more efficient to fund athletics in general as opposed to paying bounties for wins?
If she was Chinese she could’ve pulled an Eileen Gu and made over $14M
Canada underfunds their athletes.
Stupid as hell imo
Athletes will work harder for the win if they are paid more for 1st place.
Hence why some countries like Singapore, China etc pay their athletes for wins.
Singapore offers 800k per gold medal, and about half that for a silver.
This is nice enough, but there are a million other things I’d rather fund first.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.
And it’s worse when you get your medal upgraded due to your opponents doping with drugs.
you don’t get the sponsorships that would have come with gold medal status
Damn those public budget cuts
Minus taxes? Or tax free?
Canada notoriously underfunds its Olympic athletes
Real shame. 😢😢😢😢😂
It’s the Olympics, people care less and less every time.
It’ll go away soon.
I’m a huge sports fan but I really don’t get the importance of funding niche sports so we can maybe get a medal every 4 years.
Let sponsors pay and let them advertise on their gear, problem solved.
Congrats to Sarault, and amazing accomplishment. Now its time for the business world to step up and give her a commercial to reward her financially.
„China’s “ Eileen Gu has over 20 million in sponsorship money along with being paid 6 million dollars to compete for China.
https://heavy.com/sports/olympics/eileen-gu-china-payments-olympics/
A common thing I’ve learned in Canadian/American Olympians is a gravitation to well off families. Not discounting any of their skills or commitment to their sports, but to get that good you need backing…financially
WIki
„Sarault is the daughter of former [NHL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hockey_League) player [Yves Sarault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Sarault).[^([13])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Sarault#cite_note-13) She began skating at a very young age and took up speed skating at the age of seven.“