{"id":7631,"date":"2018-02-11T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/how-much-prize-money-do-usa-olympians-get-for-medal-wins\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:27:16","slug":"how-much-prize-money-do-usa-olympians-get-for-medal-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/how-much-prize-money-do-usa-olympians-get-for-medal-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Prize Money Do USA Olympians Get for Medal Wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/winter-olympics-schedule-20181-1.jpg\" alt=\"How Much Prize Money Do USA Olympians Get for Medal Wins?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/2018-winter-olympics\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>2018 Winter Olympics<\/em><\/strong><\/a> in PyeongChang, South Korea are underway and fans of the events may be wondering\u2026are Olympians paid when they win?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/News\/2016\/December\/13\/US-Olympic-Committee-Significantly-Increases-Payments-To-Athletes-For-Olympic-World-Medals\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Team USA<\/a>, athletes will receive $37,500 for each gold medal earned, $22,500 for silver medals earned, and $15,000 for bronze medals earned. If the sport is a team sport, the earnings are split.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the money won by athletes used to be taxed by the government. In late 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/barack-obama\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>President Obama<\/strong><\/a> signed a bill which then prohibited the IRS from taxing prize money. Some athletes are taxed though, if they make over $1 million per year from all of their earnings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2018\/02\/11\/how-much-prize-money-do-usa-olympians-get-for-medal-wins\/>Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea are underway and fans of the events may be wondering\u2026are Olympians paid when they win?<\/p>\n<p>According to Team USA, athletes will receive $37,500 for each gold medal earned, $22,500 for silver medals earned, and $15,000 for bronze medals earned. If the sport is a team sport, the earnings are split.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the money won by athletes used to be taxed by the government. In late 2016, President Obama signed a bill which then prohibited the IRS from taxing prize money. Some athletes are taxed though, if they make over $1 million per year from all of their earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}