An amateur Olympic athlete receives no pay for performing, but if he wins a gold medal in a popular sport his earnings are unlimited. The professional athletes such as the American Basketball players are rich beyond belief also do not get paid but the winning of a gold medal is all that is probably missing from their trophy case, so they should (and most do) take pride in their performances.
The Olympics mean every thing to the athletes, win or lose. They train with a crazy amount of effort and hope. They are the best at what they do.
They did get money to go to the olympics in the past
really it depends on what you mean becaause australia has spent $350 million just on the London Athletes and it is roughly $700 billion since we had joined the olympics.
yes they do
No
So athletes who cannot compete in the regular Olympics can compete. They get the same sense of accomplishment, recognition and satisfaction as athletes in the regular Olympics, and people think it's important that they should be able to.
293 athletes for London Olympics.
There are alot of athletes that went to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. 433 athletes went to the 2008 Olympics, which is the second most amount of Australian athletes that have gone to the Olympics Athens was first with 482 Australian athletes that went.
how many canadian athletes in winter olympics?
Athletes are not given prize money for winning gold, silver or bronze etc. at an event.
No. The athletes have sponsors and donations to help pay for the costs.
The US has 529 athletes in the 2012 Olympics.
Theres 116 athletes in 2012 Olympics