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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in my early 30s, and I personally know 3 people like this. All Olympic potential but not a chance at medaling - just close enough that if they trained full time, hard, they could maybe make the national team. Very obvious they were not going to become successful professional athletes.

One did it straight out of college like your DC, the other two did it maybe 2-4 years out of college. For the latter, it was some combination of the job doesn't give me the freedom to train the way I need to (which at this level, no job could).

Anyways, they all went to grad school in their late 20s. 1 law school, 2 bschool. Bschool loves kids like these. They all have successful jobs now. [/quote]

This!  American business people (men) love former professional/college athletes and someone who went to the Olympics (even if they didn’t medal).

If you can do it w/o any financial pain, I would.

In my career I worked with a couple of former athletes who definitely got preferential treatment and additional career opportunities (and not for  the actual work they did at the business).

It won’t hurt their careers and is likely to help (if they stay in the US). Let them live their dream for a couple of years.[/quote]

The difference is most Olympic athletes know they will never make it as a professional athlete because like only 1% of even Olympic athletes earn any real money in their sport.

Only 1% of Olympic skiers, track and field, etc athletes can make enough as an athlete (with then a future in endorsements and announcing et al) for that to be their life.

Everyone else has a plan for what happens when competing is done…because they have to have a plan.

I doubt this is OP’s kid…but who knows.  It sounds like a sport that if you essentially become the equivalent of an Olympic champion, that the payday is significant.[/quote]

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