Bay Area rivals demonstrate the strength of their Olympic-sports programs in the 2024 Summer Games, but can they continue to support those sports?
Cal and Stanford put a lot of time, effort and money into their Olympic-sports programs, and the results were seen in the 2024 Olympics, which were concluded on Sunday in Paris.
Current and former athletes affiliated with Stanford won by far the most medals and the most gold medals than athletes from any other American college. The Cardinal racked up 39 medals, including 12 gold. Cal was second in the medal count with 23. Even if you count only the athletes who attended Cal and not the ones who were part of Cal’s swimming training group, Cal captured 20 medals, which would still rank second. But since the non-Cal-alumni who participated in Cal’s swimming training group wore Cal caps during the Olympics, representing Cal, they were included in our count.
However, the question now is whether Cal can continue to support Olympic sports programs considering the financial crunch the university athletic department is facing. Cal will get only a 30% media revenue share from the ACC for the next seven years, travel expenses will increase, and Cal will need to provide lucrative direct payments to athletes as soon as 2025 to keep up in football and basketball, assuming that rule passes.
When the ACC deal was finalized, then-Cal chancellor Carol Christ said she would not cut any sports. But she also knew she would resign in June 2024. New Cal chancellor Rich Lyons has made no public statement about the state of Cal athletics and whether sports will need to be cut.Here is the unofficial count of colleges with the most medals won by athletes affiliated with their school.
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