In Aussies in Worlc Cup?, bigwesternstar wrote about paying for costs of competition on the WIC. He noted ‘I can only speak for myself, but the World Cup doesnt pay enough money to go to Europe for 6 months and throw away everything you have to ‘live the dream’.
Ive done it for years, scrimping and saving, hoping that I could make it there. After 3 years on the World Cup, it just becomes too hard to keep paying off your house and still keep a job when you get home. Unless you are making big dollars, which not many people are, you are stuck with living with parents or at least borrowing money from them to pay your way.
So, for me, Im out this year. Probably wont be back…unfortunately. It truly is the greatest thing in our sport. However the people running the World Cup are not pushing it for the skaters, they are trying to make money for themselves and not worrying about the skaters. How else do you explain no TV coverage yet???‘.
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