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Kyle Chalmers To Coventry & Co: Olympics At A Tipping Point: "We're in a really tough spot ... I feel like it's on me to actually speak up ... there's a very big false narrative [that Olympic gold sets you] up in life - far from truth" @GlobalAthleteHQ state-of-swimming.ghost.io/chalmers-to-co…

IOC President Kirsty Coventry has reaffirmed her opposition to Olympic prize money, arguing that the focus should remain on supporting all athletes rather than paying competitors for participation or medals. Speaking after the IOC Executive Board meeting in Lausanne, Coventry acknowledged the ongoing debate but said the Olympic Movement’s broader responsibility is to expand initiatives such as scholarships and athlete support programmes, ensuring benefits reach every Olympian. 📷: IOC Media insidethegames.biz/articles/coven…

“I think this is a turning point and the IOC has an option. They can either change on their own or have forced change where there’s an uprising from athletes. And I think we are seeing the beginning of it now more than we’ve ever seen it before… If they (the IOC) don’t start thinking differently, I think you’ll see legal challenges and forced change that will put them in a corner.” @RobKoehler2 with @AlexChapmanNZ @SportNationNZ @iocmedia

Alex Chapman @AlexChapmanNZ

2 days ago

Great to have @RobKoehler2 on air with us this morning on @SportNationNZ chatting this, the reaction to Coventry’s comments and alternative financial options for Olympic athletes. open.spotify.com/episode/79hgmY…

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“as a 28 year old with a young family, a mortgage, it's very hard to continue to go. Like we fund these things ourselves, for me to come to trials cost me $5,000, for me to race tonight cost me $36. It's a sport that takes a lot from you. And I really hope that from the top right down, there's going to be some change…because I don't see why you would probably choose this avenue, honestly. As sad as it is." Kyle Chambers via @StateOfSwimming

StateOfSwimming.com @StateOfSwimming

3 days ago

Kyle Chalmers To Coventry & Co: Olympics At A Tipping Point: "We're in a really tough spot ... I feel like it's on me to actually speak up ... there's a very big false narrative [that Olympic gold sets you] up in life - far from truth" @GlobalAthleteHQ state-of-swimming.ghost.io/chalmers-to-co…

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US$25,000 Games Participation Indemnity for every Olympic athlete - @GlobalAthleteHQ : "With approximately 10,500 athletes participating in a Summer Olympic Games, the total cost would be approximately US$262.5 million". In other words: easily doable state-of-swimming.ghost.io/global-athlete…

The IOC doesn’t believe Olympic athletes should be paid. Their own financial statements however highlight that athlete compensation is well within reach. Yesterday, Global Athlete published an interim policy proposal on Olympic athlete compensation. The proposal breakdown ⬇️ 💰USD $25,000 Games Participation Indemnity for every Olympic athlete, totalling $262.5 million per Summer Games 📊 This represents a small fraction of five separate IOC financial streams: → 22% of 2025 investment income, annualised across the four-year cycle → 30% of 2025 net operating cash flow, annualised across the four-year cycle → Less than 6.4% of current undesignated reserves → 8.1% of Paris 2024 broadcasting revenue → 44.5% of the IOC’s own retained share of Paris 2024 gross revenues 🔗Read the full proposal globalathlete.org/our-word/inter… @olympics @iocmedia

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“The reason Coventry and Co now face a backlash is much more simple: Fair Pay for Fair Play - no excuses. The idea that a 'non-profit' organisation with a cyclical surplus of over a billion doesn't believe in paying the folk who provide the fuel that drives the engine is absurd. Consider this lot, the stats rough averages collared from various sources: 1️⃣ 30% - 50% of elite athletes struggle significantly after retirement (that includes many who made the medals and a lot more still just beyond - seriously world-class) 2️⃣ 10% - 20% experience anxiety or depression 3️⃣ In one sense or another more than half of all Olympians receive no financial compensation for making it to the Games 4️⃣ Of that $7bn plus cyclical revenue, the surplus is over $1bn So, the logjam is not economic, not a funding issue. It's a cultural issue related to the way the Olympic Movement has evolved. Why has the matter not been dealt with long ago? 5️⃣ Athletes do not have a unified collective voice 6️⃣ Athletes have allowed a commission of athletes untrained for professional representation to represent them - often without any direct permission ever having been given 7️⃣ Former athletes morph into the people that governed them once they start to govern others” Craig Lord @StateOfSwimming @iocmedia

StateOfSwimming.com @StateOfSwimming

a week ago

FORUM: The growing pains and gains of the Olympic child... By aping the Olympic status quo that sports stars should not be paid, Kirsty Coventry has raised hopes of the Athlete Voice finally being heard through a professional independent collective ... state-of-swimming.ghost.io/forum-will-thi…

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"With approximately 10,500 athletes participating in a Summer Olympic Games, the total cost would be approximately USD $262.5 million. The IOC's own audited financial statements for 2025 confirm this is well within reach. The organization is sitting on nearly $5 billion in reserves, its investment portfolio generates around $300m annually, and it has a substantial contracted revenue from broadcasting rights incoming for LA28 and beyond." - Global Athlete Interim Athlete Compensation Solutions

Global Athlete has released an interim policy proposal outlining immediate, practical solutions for athlete compensation—starting with a USD $25,000 Games Participation Indemnity for every Olympic athlete. Our proposal addresses the immediate measures the IOC could adopt to provide meaningful financial support to athletes without creating a traditional employer-employee relationship, namely: 1️⃣ Olympic Participation Indemnities 2️⃣ Full Liberalization of Rule 40 and Athlete NIL Rights 3️⃣ Olympic Athlete Revenue Sharing Fund Full proposal: globalathlete.org/our-word/inter… @iocmedia @Olympics

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“The last thing Coventry and the International Olympic Committee should do is bristle. All energy should now be put into inviting Global Athlete and others representing athletes and conveying their message, to a brain-storming session that leads to a new Olympic era. Will we see such a moment? Unlikely, as things stand, yet if Coventry wishes to be the athlete's athlete putting athletes first, she could do no better than take up McEvoy's maths and give the suggestions of the Aussie sprint king from her own sport some serious thought.” Craig Lord with @StateOfSwimming @iocmedia @Olympics

StateOfSwimming.com @StateOfSwimming

2 weeks ago

FORUM: Have chance of an Olympic athlete boycott grown? Yes. Easy? No. Would it work? Yes. Why? A perfect storm building. The question is whether Olympic sports bosses see athletes for what they are: the hand that feeds that must be fed @GlobalAthleteHQ state-of-swimming.ghost.io/time-for-athle…

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The @iocmedia is: • Trying to regain control of anti-doping with their proxy @IntTestAgency – not independent – they are a service provider • Severely restricting the right to peaceful freedom expression- @heraskevych • Restricting athlete NIL opportunities through rule 40 2/2

"Coventry is in danger of creating an image for herself that she will never shake off." — @duncanjourno The @Olympics are moving in the wrong direction. The IOC refuses to: • Compensate athletes • Address FSB involvement in Russian sport • Address the China doping scandal 1/2

Duncan Mackay @duncanjourno

2 weeks ago

The interview @iocmedia President Kirsty Coventry gave where she announced she doesn't believe athletes should be financially compensated for competing in the @Olympics lit the blue touch paper on a debate that has been steadily moving up the agenda, and which her comments have

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To all @Olympics athletes. This is how the #IOC President values you. Excerpts from @SportNationNZ @AlexChapmanNZ interview with @iocmedia President, Kirsty Coventry. "I don't believe in paying athletes"

@duncanjourno @wrestling @gymnastics As covered by @InsiderEng "Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny. Key positions in the Russian Olympic Committee and across individual sports associations appear to be systematically reserved for alumni of the FSB." theins.press/en/inv/291614

"International federation lifts its ban on Russia, it is a win for Putin, who views sport as a matter of national security, geopolitics, and propaganda....it is another step closer to normalising what has happened in Ukraine." @duncanjourno

Duncan Mackay @duncanjourno

3 weeks ago

With international federations, like @wrestling and @gymnastics, rushing to lift restrictions on Russian athletes imposed after the invasion of Ukraine, sport has missed a unique opportunity to put pressure on #VladimirPutin and help end the war. My latest #ZeusFiles at

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The Gym Federation is making a huge advertisement for the Russian imperialist war with this decision.Gym Federation bears full responsibility for prolonging the Russian war and for a much larger number of people killed and maimed. It must pay 🇺🇦 tens of billions of euros for this

@hasek_dominik @gymnastics @InsiderEng @iocmedia @Olympics @wada_ama "Key positions in the Russian Olympic Committee and across individual sports associations appear to be systematically reserved for alumni of the FSB." 2/2 theins.press/en/inv/291614

@hasek_dominik Did @gymnastics miss the @InsiderEng report indicating: "Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny" 1/2 @iocmedia @Olympics @wada_ama theins.press/en/inv/291614

How World Aquatics Risks Repeating Catastrophic Mistakes From Sports Politics History: Time for athletes & swim feds to tell international regulators happy to see sport played n a political battlefield "NYET!" ... here's why... @RobKoehler2 @InsiderEng state-of-swimming.ghost.io/how-world-aqua…

Navalny poison squad linked to Russian doping? 🇷🇺 Russia's sports doping program is allegedly run by the same spy unit that poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny. WADA, the world anti-doping agency told DW it has alerted its investigations unit.