Have you never heard of a trust before? They have all sorts of stipulations depending on what the person creating the trust wants. It's very common for a kid to only get access to their trust when they turn 18 with more access granted at other milestones. It also sounds like a free life insurance policy. Those also only pay out when someone dies.

This doesn't sound macabre at all to me. Sounds more like loophole finding to avoid directly paying the athletes to allow them to keep their amateur status to me.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, I've heard of all of those things, but never used in a way to motive the person who is currently alive.

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dylan604 4 hours ago | parent [-]

A trust that says you don't get access to the rest unless you graduate college isn't meant as motivation? Allowing extra payout for a house only if married? People have put all sorts of limitations on trusts specifically as motivation.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> A trust that says you don't get access to the rest unless you graduate college isn't meant as motivation?

No, a trust that is setup to give your family money when you die, in order to serve as motivation for you to "break through new frontiers of excellence"

	▲	dylan604 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This isn't motivation though. This is a reward for achieving a place on the Olympic team. If this does not continue as a thing past the upcoming Olympics, athletes will still train in hopes of qualifying for the next team. They won't be doing it because this might be available to them. If they qualify, this will just be a bonus.

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ojbyrne 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Amateur status hasn’t been relevant to the Olympics in quite a while.