It's still possible to study and be a lawyer in rowing, because it is not really an all year sport like many others.
British lottery was specifically created to finance sport, but even with lots of money we still must make choices - bobsleigh but not luge, triathlon but not wrestling, artistic but not rhythmic gymnastics etc.
I've heard about this lottery, but still, for example, the prestige of studying at Harvard and becoming, for example, a doctor or lawyer in the US + potential earnings are higher than a difficult sports career. It's always a matter of priorities. From what I see the Netherlands copied this idea with the lottery from the UK (the NL team also has the logo with the local lottery on their shirts)? I`m also curious why, if this idea with the lottery is so great in the UK and the Netherlands, other countries do not copy this model, e.g. Germany, which on paper should win the most medals from Europe at the Olympic Games - recently they won less than the Netherlands!!!
Our rowers are supported by lottery money, so are effectively making maybe double pr triple the average income of someone else their age, plus whatever extra sponsorship they can arrange for themselves.
You'd have to ask some of the UK and Dutch users here how their nations deal with this problem, if anyone knows? Because clearly those 2 countries are doing the best in Europe and probably don't experience such an exodus of their best young rowing athletes to US universities (Germany has also been experiencing a crisis in this sport in recent years).
I think that nowadays people can play sports, e.g. with defibrillators, so it's not a big problem and in her case the disease is probably not that serious. For her, it may even be better that it happened now rather than during the Olympic season, even if she had to miss a large part of the season.
Objectively assessing Paris 2024 was a great success for France in terms of sports - great progress in terms of medals, including gold, compared to previous editions in the 21st century. Now you will have the Winter Games in 2030 and I`m sure you will be ready. You still have a lot of time. You will certainly not be in such a terrible situation as we are 1 year before our Games in 2026 (I have the right to expect the worst after what I saw in 2006). I don`t want to get into politics but I think that someone like Macron is a great president in terms of the development of sports - you can see that he loves sports and is very interested in them (it is thanks to him that France got the Winter Games in 2030).
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