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What do the former Olympic stars earn for living

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Olympiad champions should remember: even if you received your gold (or several), gave a lot of interviews and signed tempting contracts, you still need to plan a second career turn, since there probably won't be swimming, running or jumping in it. (Not to mention that sportsmen from lesser-known sports, who do not appear so often in public, after the Olympics, can go even more difficult financially.) Below are the stories of the most famous American stars of the Olympic Games about how they practically started anew after their victories in the pool, on the treadmill or in the gym were erased from everyone's memory.

Mark Spitz, 66 years

Former swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion Mark Spitz is best known for his seven medals won at the summer Olympics in Munich in 1972. This record could only be beaten by his colleague Michael Falls at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Spitz left the sport after Munich at the age of 22 years, and he immediately began to actively receive commercial offers. He repeatedly appeared on TV, helped the program ABC Sports reporting from the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics, spoke by voice over for the Hungarian Freedom of the Freedom 2006 documentary about the famous water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. He also received a stockbroker license and is currently managing a private investment portfolio.

Misty May-Traynor, 38 years

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty Mae-Traynor is one of the most famous beach volleyball players. She won the 21 Olympic match in a row with her partner Kerry Walsh - the two of them got the title of athletes of the year according to Women's sports foundation in 2004 and 2006. Mei-Traynor herself was named the most outstanding player in women's beach volleyball at the 2004 and 2008 Olympiads. Since then, she starred on TV, took part in the show “Dancing with the Stars” (until she broke up the training sessions), and has now returned home to California and works as a volleyball director at state college in Long Beach.

“I’ve never been as nervous as I was during an interview,” she told a local newspaper. Press Telegram.

Mary Lou Retton, 48 yo

Mary Lou Retton left the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 with five medals. She became the first American gymnast to win the absolute championship at the Olympics. Two years later, she left the sport and since then has been the “Fitness Ambassador” for Discover Fitness Foundation in his hometown of Houston and helps children with special needs and problems with obesity begin to engage in gymnastics. Retton played small roles in several films, worked as a commentator for the NBC channel at the 1988 Olympiad and wrote daily columns for USA Today during the Olympic Games 1992 and 1996's. She lives in Houston with her husband and enjoys her role of "mom-trainer" for their four daughters.

Karl Lewis, 55 years

Nine-time Olympic champion athlete Karl Lewis retired from sports through 20 years after participating in four Olympics (in Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta). Since then, a former sprinter at a distance of 100 and 200 meters, as well as a long jumper, then appeared in the field of universal attention, then disappeared from it. Lewis has played small roles in several films and TV shows. In 2011, he made an attempt to run for the New Jersey State Senate, but was not allowed to do so due to the non-compliance with state residency requirements. Carl acts as a motivational speaker and marketing specialist, which helped him earn $ 20 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Recently, he has been coaching track and field athletes at the University of Houston in the hope of raising American sports again.

“I coach because when I was in London for the 2012 Olympics, I was horrified at how bad we were,” Lewis told ESPN. He has also become an outspoken critic of doping in sports.

Dara Torres, 49 years

During the Beijing 2008 Olympics, 41-year-old Dara Torres became the oldest swimmer to participate in the Olympics. After 2, after the birth of her first child, she brought home three silver medals. Through 4, she made an attempt to get to the London Games, but didn’t qualify, and then decided to become a writer, speaker and sports commentator. Her second book titled “Fitness for the Gold Medal: A Revolutionary 5 Weekly Program” (Gold Medal Fitness: A Revolutionary 5-Week Program) became a bestseller New York Times.

Michael Johnson, 48 yo

Michael Johnson, known for his gold sneakers and his stiff back on a treadmill, does not sit idle in a "sports pension." Johnson was once called the fastest man in the world - at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, he set world records for 200 and 400 meters. His world record for the 200-meter distance was broken only in the 2008 year, when Usain Bolt cut two milliseconds. Johnson now lives in California, works as a commentator for the Air Force and coaches the football team of the British Premier League. In 2010, he took part in the show Сelebrity Apprentice, but suddenly left him (on the air with Donald Trump) for personal reasons.

Greg Luganis, 56 years

Greg Luganis was the first diver in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in two kinds of jumps at two Olympics in a row (in 1984 and 1988). A year after his last games, Greg was diagnosed with HIV, and he left the sport to write books, act in films and train dogs. He revealed his HIV status only in the 1995 year, releasing an autobiography called Breaking the Surface, which became a bestseller New York Times. Today, Luganis lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Johnny Challio, judges a diving sport competition, trains young jumpers (including the American 2012 jump team of the year) and is a speaker on HIV. In May of this year, Luganis appeared on the package. Wheaties after the appropriate petition of fans.

Richard Fosbury, 69 years

Richard Fosbury is known, first of all, by the fact that he invented the technique of high jump from the back called “fosbury-flop”. This technique helped him win gold at the 1968 Olympics of the year. Since then, fosbury flop has been the most popular style among high jumpers. After completing his sports career, Fosbury became a civil engineer, returned to his native Idaho, and founded a consulting engineering firm. Galena engineering. He worked as a town planner in two local cities and helped develop more 20 miles of tracks for bicycles and running. In 2014, Fosbury ran for the Idaho House of Representatives, but lost the election. He now lives in Bellevue and is a member of the county planning and zoning committee.

Amy Van Dyken

Swimmer Amy Van Dyken - one of the few Olympic champions with an unbroken record in the number of won gold medals. From the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, Amy brought four gold, and two more from Sydney to 2000. Four years after retiring from sports on the radio, where she worked as a leading sports program, Van Dyken had an accident and seriously injured her spine, after which she was paralyzed from the waist down. In the process of undergoing rehabilitation, Amy established an organization Amy Van Dyken Foundation, also known as Amy's Army, which financially helps people with spinal injuries. Amy is now undergoing rehabilitation, running Amy's army and travels around the country as a motivational speaker.

Jackie Joyner Quercy, 54 years

Jackie Joyner-Quersey's athletics career spanned the 4 Olympiad, from 1984 to 1996 a year. She won the 6 Olympic awards for long jump and heptathlon, and in the 2000 year she was named the 20 best athlete of the century, according to the magazine Sports Illustrated. In 1998, Jackie founded Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation in his hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois, and in 12 years collected $ 12 million for Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center, youth sports and recreation center with a gym on 1200 seats. In 2007, Joyner-Quercy founded a non-profit organization along with other well-known athletic activists. Athletes for Hope, which helps professional athletes to participate in charity.

Edwin Moses, 60 years

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses set the world record in the 4m hurdles four times from 400 to 1976. He won 1987 races in a row over 122 years and is famous for running 10 strides over hurdles (the norm being 13). Moses is an aerospace engineer by training, so he had no problems finding work after leaving the sport. Edwin earned a master's degree in business administration from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, then founded a business management agency for athletes, after which he worked for several years as a financial consultant. But it turned out not to be for him: “I literally burned out. I wanted to get back to public speaking and do something worthwhile,” he told the magazine Sports Illustrated. Mozes joined Laureus World Sports Academy - a non-profit organization that uses sport for social change.

Joan benoit samuelson, 59 years

Maine's most famous athlete Joan Benoit Samuelson has run more than 150 000 miles in her career, according to Wall Street journal. During her first run at the Boston Marathon, she broke the world record, won gold at the inaugural women's marathon at the 1984 Olympiad of the Year and was credited to the Maine Women's Gallery of Fame. The days of her Olympic glory may be over, but the trimmed Benoit Samuelson is still breaking records in women's marathons for 50. She also works with the company. Nike as a consultant, runs cross-country clinics in different states and wrote 2 books about her life and sports. In 2004, she told the magazine Sports Illustrated: “My gold medal is stored in a box with window handles, batteries and Christmas decorations.”

Bob Beamon, 69 years

Bob Beamon is the author of one of the world's best long jump results: his 8,9-meter world record could not beat the 23 of the year. It was also his last leap in competition. Beamon, whose height is 191 centimeter, after that was invited to the Arizona basketball team The phoenix suns, although he never played in the NBA. Since then, Beamon has worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger on athletic programs in American colleges, founded a non-profit organization Art of the Olympians, which supports Olympic values ​​through art exhibitions and educational workshops, and even exhibited its own sketches.

 

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