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Athletics is not as luxurious you might think: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/olympic-games-rio-athletes-personal-finance-struggle https://www.th
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
Athletics is not as luxurious you might think: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/olympic-games-rio-athletes-personal-finance-struggle https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/olympic-games-...
- dopamean 7y agoRight but when someone says "athletes unionize" in this context they're almost certainly talking about the NFL and NBA. Not semi-amateur olympians.
- m0zg 7y agoSpeaking of which, it just blows my mind that US olympians routinely win a ton of gold against government-supported olympians from e.g. Russia or China. There wouldn't even _be_ any olympians from there if the government didn't fund it.