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Olympic glory transcends wealth for athletes like Djokovic, Curry, and Scheffler. Despite stardom, the pursuit of gold remains their ultimate dream.
Sergio Camello taking off his shirt in celebration and Fermin Lopez terming the summer “unbeatable”, Scottie Scheffler’s tears of joy and those from Novak Djokovic told a story. As did Steph Curry doing Steph Curry things. The Olympics matter, those five rings — Viktor Axelsen’s words.
Understandable that Axelsen would say that. Badminton is the Dane’s sport of choice and for the two-time defending champion, the Olympics is the grandest stage of them all. As it is for Noah Lyles, Neeraj Chopra, Simone Biles, Teddy Riner, Katie Ledecky and pretty much for most of the 10,500 athletes who had fetched up in Paris. The exceptions, you would think, would be men’s football, golf, tennis and the latest of the USA’s basketball dream teams. In other words, Curry, Scheffler, Djokovic and Camello.
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Men’s international football picks the best through continental championships – following their 5-3 win against France, Spain’s Alex Baena and Lopez became the first since France’s Albert Rust in 1984 to have won the European championship and the Olympic gold in the same year – and the World Cup. The top players earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every week at clubs who often do not release them for the Olympics because it has essentially been an under-23 tournament since 1992.
And yet, at Parc des Princes on Friday, the crowd roared, “Alez Le Blues” as France mounted a stirring comeback to force the final into extra-time. For Thierry Henry, the quest for gold had become a dream he didn’t want to wake up from. This, from a man who has won everything as a player and is immortalised in stone at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
“It is the first time in my life that I have lost a final and won a medal…That is what is great about the Olympics. It has been an extraordinary human adventure,” said Henry, France’s 46-year-old coach.
Back in Olympics in 2016 after a 112-year wait, the men’s golf gold went to Scheffler who then got $37,500 as reward from the US Olympic and Paralympics Committee for four days of work. His earnings in 2024 going to Paris? $28,148,692. But you could tell how much the Olympics meant to the 28-year-old world No.1. In this, he wasn’t walking alone.
