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Should Olympic Medals Be Taxed?

2017; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2939153

1556-5068

Joel S. Newman,

Doping in Sports

Ronda Rousey won the Bronze Medal in judo at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She was the first American woman to do so. The medal itself would have brought her a measly four bucks, if she had been crass enough to sell it. Her reward from the United States Olympic Committee for her unique accomplishment was, as she put it, “Ten grand and a handshake.” A few months after she came home from Beijing, she was living in her car.