Paralympians Will Finally Be Paid As Much As Olympians For Medals Won “Paralympians who win medals could be paid as much as 400% more than in past years.”
counterpart, the Paralympics are split into Winter Games and Summer Games, but for the first time, all athletes at the Tokyo Games will be paid the same for their medals won.
For years, Paralympians were paid less for their winnings than their Olympian counterparts, which is **cough** bullshit. The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee announced the change in pay parity after the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 2018 Paralympic athletes who won medals in Pyeongchang received retroactive pay bumps, but the current Tokyo Games will be the first Olympic event to implement the pay parity at the actual event.
. “Our financial investment in U.S. Paralympics and the athletes we serve is at an all-time high, but this was one area where a discrepancy existed in our funding model that we felt needed to change.”As I was reading this tears literally were streaming down my face not only bc of the equal pay for
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