The Difficult Life After Glory: the Olympic Champion Who Earned 190 Thousand Euros per Year, Starts over with 12 Euros per Hour

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American runner and former Olympic champion Lauryn Williams has revealed the financial challenges that often lie behind Olympic glory. Although she was earning around €190,000 a year in her twenties, she later had to start over as an intern, earning just €12 an hour. Williams is the only American woman to have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. She stresses that a gold medal does not guarantee financial security. "There is a misc…