Only Olympic Judo Winners Get Paid
A SURVEY by the Sunday Herald Sun, Australia, says Britain pays nothing to Olympic champions, except those who triumph in judo.
Given the recent headlines on youth crime and the Jeunesse D’ore’s favoured hobby of kebab-shop-stabbing, the British taxpayers’ money is safe when it comes to awarding trials of unarmed combat.
But why should any Olympic athlete get paid anything? Do you get paid to run about, hopping and swimming all day?
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July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I thought the point about the Olympics was that they were essentially amateur status, therefore nobody should get paid at all, they should be doing it for the honour of being there, surely…?