Athletes are content providers on the Olympic platform. They also have no leverage to force a more equitable distribution of income.
Given how poorly most platforms compensate content providers, I see no inconsistency here.
Given how poorly most platforms compensate content providers, I see no inconsistency here.
It could very well be that the best athletes are already just going where the money is, and we're getting those that have a burning desire to be in "The Olympics" rather than making a lot of money.
American Ninja Warrior (and the Japanese show that it came from) show some amazing athletes in every contest. If those people trained for the Olympics instead, I think they could be rather good at it. And many of them are just regular people who decided to try this crazy contest. Now that people have started training specifically for Ninja Warrior, the obstacles have gotten a lot harder. This year's are pretty hardcore, IMO.
One of the things that I sort of like about it is that most of them do seem to have jobs and such. Most people aren't IMHO-wrecking their lives to compete. Though the description of what it takes to "walk on" is a bit BS; people literally quitting their job to camp out for a week or two is a problem, ANW, not something to brag about. Most people don't quit their job, but still, that is an awful lot of time to ask people to piss away to show up on your show.