Olympians are turning to OnlyFans to fund dreams as they face a 'broken' finance system
Olympians are turning to OnlyFans to fund dreams as they face a 'broken' finance system
Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games.
Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games. As they struggle to make ends meet, a spotlight is being cast on an Olympics funding system that watchdog groups condemn as “broken,” claiming most athletes “can barely pay their rent.”
The Olympics, the world’s biggest sporting stage, bring in billions of dollars in TV rights, ticket sales and sponsorship, but most athletes must fend for themselves financially.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not express concern about the situation. When asked by The Associated Press about athletes turning to OnlyFans, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said, “I would assume that athletes, like all citizens, are allowed to do what they can.”
Watching his sponsorships dry up and facing mounting costs, Jack Laugher was among the pantheon of Olympic athletes using the often-controversial platform to get to the Games — or simply survive.
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The Olympics was intended for amateur athletes, but they're all essentially professionals now if they have any chance of medaling (the Turkish shooter excepted) because they get years of specialized training. And, of course, they find endless new ways to abuse those athletes' bodies by using ever-more sophisticated ways to secretly dope them.
Half of them will be broken by the time they're 30. I'm not at all surprised that this is what they have to resort to.
And the Olympics being for "amateurs" was a deliberate effort by the Olympic committee when the modern games were started to exclude the working classes from competing.
The whole "best of the best" is just branding. The Olympics needs serious reform.
Yeah, by "amateurs" they meant wealthy men who didn't work and so had spare time to get good at sport. Really good Behind the Bastards episodes that touch on this actually.
Behind the Bastards - Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics
Behind the Bastards - Part Two: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics
Hell yeah, another BTB listener? There's dozens of us, dozens!
There's millions who stream or download each episode. It's in the top 200 podcasts by listener, and there is a shitload of podcasts out there.
Robert Evans is a national treasure.
T'was an arrested development reference sir.
You know who else gives things to Hitler?
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Trevor Moore gave Hitler a good rap.
always an upvote for my favourite comedian
We need to come up with like....a secret handshake...or like....idfk..a gang sign or something?
a 4 Garret diamond?
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A fellow podcast addict user, I see.
There's dozens of us!
Another 19th century thing that was exclusionary at its beginning.
Do you know why? Because rich people didn't want to compete against the poor. If you couldn't afford to compete, you didn't. The rich can't didn't fancy meeting Gary the local bouncer in a boxing match.
History of Olympics is fucked up.
History of everything is fucked up.
Power, money, and violence are usually how things go, the bubble of "freedom" that has existed for a few hundred years maybe be yielding.
Why is the Turkish shooter excepted?
Because he apparently didn't have years of training, based on what I read.
He's been shooting for a long time and has a bunch of records and awards.
But not professional training.
He's an ex-cop
Starring Mel Gibson in
TURKEY SHOOT
SPRING 2025
So, not professional training?
Plenty of dogs and minorities would say otherwise.
True that true that
So are millions of people who didn't win a medal.
There are still a few amateurs left: L. James, S. Curry, RayGunn