Declan Farmer

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Marketplace All-in-One · Sled hockey's Declan Farmer makes us smart about the Winter Paralympics · 24 Feb 2026 podcast

Best case scenario, you literally have no other time off.

You're only spending all your time off to go train and compete.

So Paralympians and Olympians need financial support outside of that.

And I think that's grown over the years, especially on the Paralympic side, trying to bring that up to the standard that Olympic athletes get.

But on average, if you compare the Paralympic sport to its Olympic counterpart, the Paralympians are making less from their

um, national governing bodies and which is, you know, the sport federation you're associated with, whatever sport it is.

And then as well as, you know, team USA.

So, you know, we've had some great sled hockey players retire in their mid twenties over the years because they just simply, you know, can't make it work financially.

And, um, you know, hopefully we're past those days where, you know, the financial side of it's growing, but there's still, um,

It's still pretty tough for some of the guys.

You know, there's sponsors around the games, but that's only, you know, we have a 17-member team, and it's only typically a handful of people that get even a single sponsor, just from sheer numbers point of view.

So Team USA is totally privately funded.

So I think the more people that donate and give to Team USA, the more that they can support their athletes and, you know, help us make ends meet so that we can, you know, train to try to win some medals at the games.

Thank you so much.

Have a good one.

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