Joe Pinsker
speaker
1,247 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Jan 2025
Joe Pinsker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They need to get to a competition.
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They need to have lodging when they're there.
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They need to buy food.
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Sometimes these are covered by their teams, but sometimes they're putting up the expenses themselves.
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A little bit less intuitive or obvious is the cluster of other expenses that fall somewhere between athletic and everyday.
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People are buying groceries just like the rest of us, but in some cases they need to eat 10,000 calories a day and that's how many groceries they need to buy.
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Yeah, there are some big-name athletes who have a lot of money in the Olympics.
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But in fact, those high-profile athletes are kind of the outliers here.
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And there's a whole group of people who going to the Olympics can be some sort of financial sacrifice, whether that means...
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going into debt as they're trying to get there or putting their career on hold.
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There are all sorts of ways that it can be tough for the rest of the athletes that you'd see competing.
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So many of them get a monthly stipend from the U.S.
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Olympic and Paralympic Committee or the group that governs their individual sport.
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That's typically not enough to live off of, but many athletes also get sponsorships and can get a good amount of money from that.
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If those things don't come together, though, athletes who are in the Olympics or even especially those who are trying to get there...
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They have to look for other ways.
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Most often they are cobbling together a living in the time that they have around their training schedule.
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There are ways that people have to get creative with their money and time to make it happen if they don't have a big endorsement deal.
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It varies from country to country.
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The U.S.
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