For some lucky athletes, there are also bonuses being offered outside of direct national payments.
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If you are on medication for pain (as some athletes are), that is one thing.
Players make national news when they are busted for driving drunk, and some professional athletes continue to put themselves at an even greater risk of being caught by driving flashy and expensive cars.
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More than 600 people are registered for the event, including some world-class elite athletes.
Some athletes say their positive test results for the drug were caused by eating beef.
And some 21 Indian Olympic athletes have called for the Dow sponsorship for the stadium to be ditched.
Please let me know if you can think of some other American athletes who gave their lives for us.
But it turns out that Mr Keino's eldest son - the one who normally drives the minivan for the athletes - has gone to market to sell some tomatoes.
She says athletes are preparing, at least mentally, for some bad air.
It took years for some WNBA execs, players and coaches to stop hiding their gay athletes and welcome the diversity that makes the game appeal strongly to all audiences.
On Sunday, Mr. Rogge said that "the Youth Games will definitely be something very important for the Olympic movement, " adding that some 90 former Youth Games athletes won medals in London.
Raiola also factored in a partial foreign tax credit that the players can use on their U.S. returns, along with so-called "jock taxes, " in which some states require visiting athletes to pay state income tax for each game they play there.
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We have all been entertained by the 2012 Olympic Games in London for days now, watching athletes from around the world compete in events some of which are so obscure they seem to disappear entirely from our consciousness between Olympics.
For some content, the channel hires production crews to shoot skateboarders, surfers and other athletes on location, but many of the athletes shoot video on their own.
This is a useful reminder that while athletes and entertainers may face special issues, for all high income earners, some thought about overall tax exposure is tempting.
Perhaps out of guilt or a desire for some favorable recognition, Shapiro also used investor funds to make payments to dozens of student athletes who were attending a local university in the Miami area.
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However, if some of these athletes break through and become part of the elite group that heads for London, suddenly their new personal best becomes their new standard, and the pressure is on them to continue to perform at that new level.
Unlike other international events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, which require athletes to be citizens of the countries they represent, the WBC makes some notable exceptions for non-citizens.
But it is expected Wales will benefit in other ways such as staging some of the Olympic football matches at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and by providing training facilities for athletes, for example.
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