The American Military needs a proper living wage and the House and Senate need to vote to support our COUNTRIE'S athletes. Carlos Yulo of the Philippines will get $225k and a new house, according to Tim Daggett, for winning the gold medal in gymnastics. Our medal winners get 25k, 15k and 10k for their medals, respectively.
They paid more for coaching than that.
What do they live on afterward?
I'll add that Jason Lezak, the swimmer that helped solidify Gold for the US in the swim relay, beating Alain Bernard with a crazy fast 46.6 split was broke at one point.
"Mondo competes for Sweden instead of USA. Brilliant move or cheap copout?".........Is this a trick question?? Did none of you see his girlfriend today in the stands?!
Dude is a huge rock star/celeb in Sweden. Here he’d just be a T&F guy. makes a ton of financial sense and since his mom is from there it’s totally legit.