Do winning Olympic atheletes win money as well as medals?
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Some do.  There was a story on a U.S. speed skater that donated the money he won to charity.  \n\nTURIN, Italy (AP) - Joey Cheek has his first assignment from Johann Olav Koss: Zambia.\n\nThe American speedskater will head to the African country in April on a humanitarian mission for Koss' Right To Play group, which uses sports to promote a healthier lifestyle for children in poor countries.\n\nCheek donated $40,000 in bonus money to Koss' organization after winning a gold medal in the 500 meters and a silver in the 1,000. Koss won three speedskating golds at the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
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Ummmm, they won both the silver and bronze medals in Pairs Figure Skating in Torino and numerous medals in short and long track speed skating.  Not to mention summer olympics where they are leaders in diving and gymnastics. For lists of athletes, see http://www.olympics.org
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The US won 9 Gold, 9 Silver, and 7 Bronze.\n\nhttp://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006/medals
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the Olympics WAS a competition for AMATEURS ; Many countries support and train their athletes  some starting as children sent to boarding schools(training camps).\nEconomically there is no gain as to how many medals a country wins...the ONLY economic gain is the profits gained when a country is selected as the host.
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Michael Phelps won 8 medals (6 gold, 2 bronze).\nAleksandr Dityatin, USSR (1980) also won 8 medals in gymnastics (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze).\nThen there are quite a few summer Olympians who won seven medals.  Notably, Mark Spitz won 7 swimming gold medals in 1972.  Matt Biondi won seven swimming medals in 1988.  And Alexei Nemov, of Russia won 6 medals at back to back Olympics in 1996 and 2000.
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You're not a failure.  You succeeded in sticking with something and giving it your best shot.  Plus you probably managed to keep yourself in very good shape which is a difficult enough thing to do nowadays.  There are so few places available for people to compete in the Olympics.  Just being close to qualifying puts you at a very high level of achievement compared to the average Joe.  Be proud of your accomplishments and use what you have learned from these in the other areas of your life.  The Olympics is not the only measure of a man (or woman).
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on entering the athletes village each athlete is usually given a mascot(s) in their room with their equipment (uniforms) by their Country and Sports Council. On winning a  medal they'll get another presented on the podium. The could get more if after winning like track & field events they are thrown to them from the stadium.
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They bid for it.  Similar to Olympics.
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hmmm.... since winning an olympic gold medal is seen as a great  achievement... i doubt u ll be able to find a genuine one.... moron
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Yes, every member of the team that wins a medal receives a medal, so both pairs skaters, each of the 2- or 4- member bobsled teams and even all the players on the hockey teams get their own medals.
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I watched a special on big lottery winners recently, and YES you can win too much money.. I think it depends on a personality type, but when you start putting solid gold statues by your pool?  Seems a bit over the top!
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i think gold medalists get 25,000,silver 15,000 and bronze 10,000.
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NO, but they are going to get them anyway and be raised to expect them. Then if they make the Pros they have the money so they will get them one way or the other. Doesn't make it fair or right but we all know it happens.
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under the new scoring method in figure skating, it is still actually possible to gain points when you fall during a difficult jump because you gain points based on difficulty levels, then lose a set number of points by falling (the TV commentators explained how one of the competitors gained a half point by falling down because they got 3.5 points for attempting a difficult jump and then lost three when she fell.)\nAlso, the medals are based on combined scores over many parts of competition (basic figures, short program, long program) and an error in one area can be partially made up for by superior performances in the other areas.
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Yes and yes.. Olympics are supposed to be the best athletic competition in the world.. once you start exluding people that are good enough to be paid.. then you lose the best perfromers\n\nI like seeing how olympic athletes earn money by doing what they do.. basketball is the only one that I hate how the US handles it
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naa.. i dont think so... deep down, u know those athletes are competitors, and they're always going to want to win no matter what.. nobody likes to lose!
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the bigger ones get more meadles and some theres so many people. in the littler countrys the medal winners are hero and everybody respects them. if a country that is really big got one everybody would be happy, but if a very small country got one everybody would act if it was them standing on the podium