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Originally Posted by REDVAN
1500/month is enough to live very frugally if you're just supporting yourself and practicing your sport. I think your friends issue is the wife and kids.
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I'd love to see someone survive on $1500 in Victoria. I guess it could happen but when you are to eat X number of calories and have to eat healthy that money is gone quickly. We aren't talking about a student who can live on KD and Mr Noodles he has to eat healthy and eat a lot. He figures he would have about $300 left for spending, rent, etc. after food.
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Originally Posted by blankall
To be fair, they should still have a job. The 1500 is meant to allow them to work less so they can concentrate on their training.
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That's the problem though. We want our athletes to compete with others who don't have to work at Home Depot just to survive. I just find it unfair that we expect so much from these people while they struggle to live and have to work a part time job while training. And sometimes they have to even pay their own way to events which hurts them even more.
Just for the record I'm not really complaining about the money they get or lack there of but it has more to do with expectations vs investment. We want to "own the podium" while supplying our athletes with very little compared to other countries. I bet you 100% of the people that work for the COC make more than the athletes that compete for them.