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Old 08-18-2008, 03:50 PM  
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Money is from sponsorship I guess as the athletes competing aren't allowed to be pro athletes. I just saw some costs to team GB that kinda go against the 'pay for medals theory' - swimming, cycling, rowing, athletics each cost the GB olympic committee (through the lottery mainly) 20-22 million each event....

swimming won 2 gold, 1 bronze
cycling won 6 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze
rowing won 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
athletics so far no medals

So, whatever the other countries are doing, we know the British OC arent paying for medals...
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