The Truth About How Most Olympic Athletes Make Money
With GoFundMe pages starting to gain steam among athletes ahead of Rio, inevitably more turned to the kindness of strangers for Tokyo, including America's No. 1 badminton player, who no matter how good she got could only count on four-figure prize money even at the most prestigious tournaments.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports, live events, training facilities and more in 2020, a large source of her income dried up and she set a fundraising goal of $12,000 to pay for overseas training, travel to four #RoadtoTokyo2021 tournaments and then the main event itself. Beiwen ultimately raised more than $15,000 and competed in Tokyo, but suffered an Achilles injury that put her medal dreams on hold.
"Our sports federation and our equestrian federation can't afford to give too much to the sport like some of the other federations do, so of course it's a huge expense for us personally to get here," South African eventing riderEven after paring her team down to her horse, Valtho des Peupliers; one coach; one groom and no vet, "we were really, really stressed about it and someone proposed to us to do a GoFundMe," the 32-year-old said.
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