{"id":8997,"date":"2021-08-13T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:17:55","slug":"the-great-olympic-cash-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/the-great-olympic-cash-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"The great Olympic \u2018cash cow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Twenty-two Britons are today the proud holders of Olympic gold medals following their exploits in the Tokyo Games, which ended a week ago.<br \/>\nBut while their feats earned them the ultimate Olympic accolade, they have not received any direct financial rewards for their endeavours \u2013 unlike their rivals from other competing nations.<\/p>\n<p>Research published by digital coaching provider Ezra has revealed sportsmen and women can make tidy sums if they finish top of the pile.<\/p>\n<p>Team GB finished fourth in the overall medal table and none of the British athletes received any monetary rewards for striking gold.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Italian athletes like Marcell Jacobs (pictured), winner of the individual &nbsp;100 metres title and a relay gold, can expect to pocket at least $370,000 as an official payment from the Italian Olympic Association for bringing glory to his country.<\/p>\n<p>And although not allowed to compete under their country\u2019s flag, due to long-standing problems relating to state-sponsored drug-taking, ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two Britons are today the proud holders of Olympic gold medals following their exploits in the Tokyo Games, which ended a week ago. But while their feats earned them the ultimate Olympic accolade, they have not received any direct financial rewards for their endeavours \u2013 unlike their rivals from other competing nations. Research published by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}