Three months after Games, window of opportunity appears to be closing on medalists.
How much are you willing to pay for a Winter Olympic Gold medal?
… The Globe and Mail contacted nine Canadian individual gold medalists from the 2010 Games, including the two-woman bobsleigh team of Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse. Gold-medal-winning teams such as men’s and women’s hockey, men’s curling, and relay troupes in speed skating and short track were excluded because their medals were not as immediately identifiable with one athlete.
Asked how much the medals would be worth to them in 2010, the athletes gave a range of responses, though most were in the low five-figures, with several responding $20,000.
Moguls champion Alexandre Bilodeau wouldn’t provide specifics, but an informed source said he stood to earn about $200,000 this year. He and skeleton champion Jon Montgomery, who stands to make about the same, are the only gold medalists negotiating endorsement deals, and some athletes, such as speed skater Christine Nesbitt, do not even have agents. …
(via Sport At Its Best)
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maybe the Olympians are really looking to cash in all that much either? who knows…I would love to see some of them popping up here and there, like on a cereal box, but maybe some of them just look to make a little extra coin to ease the financial strain then get back to day to day life.
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