看看澳洲运动员挣多少钱
How Australian Olympians make moneyDavid Adams
Aug 4, 2021 – 7.28am
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The 2020 Tokyo Olympics promised Australian athletes the chance to compete against the world’s best, dazzle audiences with their skills, and write their own names into sporting history.
But the life of an elite athlete doesn’t necessarily offer those competitors a steady wage. A few moments of glory on the Olympic podium may be preceded by years of hard graft and low salaries, with very few of the nation’s top performers able to support themselves with sport alone.
Australia’s Matthew Ryan Lydement in the men’s 109kg weightlifting event on August 2. AP
Here’s a brief glimpse at how Australian athletes make a living as they train for the planet’s biggest sporting event.
Athletics’ amateur history and low-paying present
For much of recent Olympic history, it was expected that athletes would not earn money for their sporting pursuits. That thinking began with French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin, the forefather of the modern Games, who viewed sports as the noble pursuit of upper-class amateurs, for whom money was of no concern.
That rule changed in 1986, allowing paid athletes to compete. Yet the cost of training an elite athlete, often from early childhood, means athletic success is still tied to existing wealth: as with any other pursuit, it’s easier to build an elite sporting career if you don’t have to make a living from it.
For everyone else, the path to Olympic success is somewhat more difficult. Training more may mean earning less in the real world, and training less may result in slipping performance. The pandemic did not help matters, either: A 2020 survey undertaken by the Australian Sports Foundation found about half of athletes who competed on a national or international level earned less than $23,000 in total through the year.
Government support and medal bonuses
To fill in the gap, the Australian Institute of Sports (AIS) offers means-tested grants of up to $17,500 to athletes with serious potential to earn a medal at the Olympic, Paralympic, or Commonwealth games. The scheme costs the Australian taxpayer about $14 million a year.
In April, Commonwealth Games Australia and the AIS also launched a new $8000 grant for athletes to “fund international or domestic travel for training or competition, medical support or other training-related expenses”.
In Budget 2021-2022, the federal government has committed $136.3 million for the nation’s elite athletes, including $50.6 million in “high performance grants” for Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Further perks await those who succeed at the Games. Under the Australian Olympic Committee’s Medal Incentive Funding program, gold, silver, and bronze Olympic medallists will receive bonuses of $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000, respectively.
Not a bad payday for Australian swimmer Emma McKeon, who won four gold and three bronze medals in Tokyo.
Wealthy beneficiaries stepping in
Some of Australia’s most accomplished swimmers also have the benefit of private sponsorship. Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and the executive chairman of Hancock Prospecting, is behind a quarterly grant of up to $8000 for Olympic hopefuls.
The financial support “allows them to focus on their training and performance and not be distracted by financial pressures that most athletes face”, Swimming Australia states. The same program also provides an incentive pool of $170,000 for medallists and top-eight finishers.
Australia’s top rowers have also benefited from Ms Rinehart’s sponsorship. The Australian reports the mining magnate has underwritten a $525-a-week wage for the nation’s top 50 rowers in both the men’s and women’s competitions. That support has been “profound” and “game changing”, Rowing Australia’s chief executive, Ian Robson, told the paper.
Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that Australia’s two most successful sports at Tokyo are swimming and rowing.
Sponsorship deals
Athletes are free to negotiate their own personal sponsorship deals – to a point.
Australia’s most successful athletes, with big profiles before the Games, could be facing huge pay cheques from their top tier sponsors.
At the same time, the IOC – once staunchly against commercialisation – is a zealous guardian of its own brand and the revenue which comes from its global advertising partnerships.
The result is a hardline advertising rulebook, which limits how athletes can cash in on their Olympic cachet.
A compilation of frequently asked questions, issued by the International Olympic Committee before Tokyo, runs through the dos and don’ts of advertising campaigns that feature Olympic athletes; athletes are not even permitted to issue more than one “thank you” statement to personal advertisers who are not also “Olympic Partners”.
Journalists look at cardboard beds at the athletes village of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics prior to the start of the Games.
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These rules, and the fact the world’s largest athletic competition comes around only every four years, means few competitors earn enough in sponsorship money to underwrite their entire careers.
For those athletes who cannot rely solely on generational wealth, government support, wealthy beneficiaries, and corporate sponsors: there are ordinary jobs, giving the nation’s most extraordinary athletes the chance to show their grit and determination even when they are not on the world stage.
This story first appeared in Business Insider. Read it here or follow BusinessInsider Australia on Facebook.
BusinessInsider.com.au 翻译下撒:lol 本帖最后由 deepnorth2 于 2021-8-5 01:49 编辑
Portal 发表于 2021-8-4 16:38 static/image/common/back.gif
翻译下撒
只是说了政府给多少钱，真正能来钱的地方一带而过。
这句话是关键“Australia’s most successful athletes, with big profiles before the Games, could be facing huge pay cheques from their top tier sponsors.”
澳大利亚最成功的运动员（金牌获得者？），将会从他们的赞助商那里拿到巨大的支票。 本帖最后由 闲人看海 于 2021-8-5 19:20 编辑
平均来说，应该游泳，田径和自行车都赚的不多. 以前公司客户有个在国家队打水球的雇员，直接上公司拉赞助，说要去比赛，好像公司象征性的资助了2千。那可是好多年之前的事了。
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