Usopc receives a record donation of $ 100 million to finance the career after the Olympic Games after the athletes USA Olympic team

The Philanthrop Ross Stevens put a donation of $ 100 million to support the United States' Olympic and Paralympic Athletes with a plan after retirement of up to $ 200,000 per participant.

The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced on Wednesday that the gift was the largest individual donation in the history of the organization. Stevens started the fund to earn American athletes for the victims of other opportunities for the opportunity to earn the opportunity to represent the USA.

“Team USA athletes, extraordinary people, have proven that they can reach size and proudly represent our incredible country,” said Stevens in an explanation. “The Stevens Awards honor the victims who provided them on behalf of all Americans and at the same time inspire the development of their dreams in the post-Games chapter of their lives.”

Several athletes in the 2024 games said that the perception of sponsoring and notification payments that maintain amateurs were only correct for the best-known members of the team like Gymnast Simone Biles or the swimmer Katie Lecky. An estimated 90% of the team in the USA participating in the Olympic and Paralympic Games only receive small scholars and describe economic stability as a “salary check for salary check”.

All teams USA athletes would be entitled to receive the “Stevens Financial Security Award”, said the USAPC.

A unique Olympic champion can receive a one -time Olympic champion over a period of four years over a period of four years after their qualification games or 45 years. A two-time Olympicer or Paralympics athlete of the US US athletes for $ 400,000 in advantages after the career and a further $ 200,000 for a triple participant to $ 600,000.

The proven athlete also received 100,000 US dollars after their death.

“Due to the extraordinary generosity and the Philanthropical Creativity of Ross, we can create more than a financial security network,” said Gene Sykes, chairman of the USPC chairman, in a statement. “We can build a springboard that drives these athletes at even greater heights beyond their Olympic and Paralympic career.”

The USOPC is a “mission -driven non -profit organization” and does not receive government funding. Several US athletes said in Paris that they pay five numbers for coaching, accommodation, food, access to gym and the associated training costs of the Olympic Games.

The most successful US athletes have created six-digit salaries with appearances, company sponsorship and others. Winning is the only other way to a guaranteed usage payment. The men swimmer Dressel of the men received a total of 187,500 US dollars for his five gold medals at the Tokyo Games.

The USOPC pays Team USA medalist 37,500 US dollars for the winning of gold, $ 22,500 for silver and third place places or bronze finishers, who take $ 15,000 home.

The 2024 Commission for the Olympic Games and Paralympics of the US Olympic Games showed 26.5% of the powerful American athletes, which earn less than 15,000 per year and more than a third of athletes less than 25,000 per year.