Olympic medal winners to be paid for being on podium

[Frequitude]

Originally Posted by habernac

so you'd rather our best athletes work at Home Depot instead of concentrating on their jobs as athletes?

The athletes will have to work at Home Depot while training anyways.

That's the stupid thing about this. It does nothing to help athletes in their pursuit, it just provides a monetary reward once the pursuit is over. And if someone does win gold, they've got ample opportunity to earn money through sponsorships, speaking, etc.

It's so ass-backwards.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by Frequitude

It's so ass-backwards.

But it is a start!

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by fredr123

I could be in the minority here, but I'm not a huge fan of supporting athletes financially with public money. There are a lot of useless government jobs out there already and I'm not sure it's a good idea to have "biathalon" (among others) included in that category. I find I don't feel a great deal of sympathy for any athlete who complains about how hard it is to make ends meet while they train 6 days a week at the Oval.

Just for the record it is corporate money that will be paying the athletes. Such as Bell and RBC.