Simone Biles is set to leave France with four Olympic medals, having won three gold and one silver in this year\u2019s competition, but she won\u2019t be significantly richer for it.<\/p>\n
Biles won gold in the Women\u2019s Artistic Individual All-Around, Women\u2019s Artistic Individual All-Around, and the Women\u2019s Vault last week. She won silver in the Women\u2019s Floor event on Monday.<\/p>\n
According to Forbes, Americans at the Olympics will receive $37,500 for each gold medal won and $22,500 for silver, while bronze medalists will get $15,000. The superstar gymnast is due a total of $135,000 based on Team USA\u2019s payout system, which is considerably less than the $750,000 signing bonus her husband, Jonathan Owens, got paid upon inking his last NFL contract.<\/p>\n
It appears fans expected her to make a lot more, and they could be forgiven for harboring the notion given how lavishly American athletes get paid.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Olympics makes billions of dollars every four years, name a bigger scam, I\u2019ll wait!\u201d one fan raged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best athletes in the world! NOTHING!\u201d another declared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just reading about Olympian salaries and it\u2019s honestly disgusting that the Olympics don\u2019t pay more,\u201d someone else wrote.<\/p>\n
Simone Biles Is Still Worth Millions
\nDespite making what many consider to be a meager sum from her exploits at the games, Simone Biles has a net worth of $25 million, per Celebritynetworth.com.<\/p>\n
Like most Olympic athletes, Biles makes most of her money through brand endorsements and is believed to have made around $20 million between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n
Forbes notes that the 27-year-old brought in $7.1 million in 2023, with $7 million coming from endorsements and the rest from gymnastics. She was the 14th highest-paid female athlete last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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