Is Greg Louganis broke?

Charity OP. He gave one of his medals to Jeannie White the mother of Ryan White and one to his diving coach.

I thought I saw some of his Speedos and tennis bracelets for sale on the RealReal

I heard Brian Boitano kicked him in the cuntbone!

His diving coach Sammy Lee was my eyes, ears and throat doc. He was a little guy with little guy complex.

No one should be allowed to give away or sell an Olympic medal.

[quote] "No one should be allowed to give away or sell an Olympic medal."

R5 = A.M.P.A.S.

Why R5? It’s theres to do whatever with.

It's disrespectful to the spirt and nobility of the games and to the many athletes who strove to achieve a medal but for various reasons were unsuccessful. Selling an Olympic medal is the same as spitting on Michelle Kwan.

interestingly, you can't sell an Oscar statuette: " Oscar winners cannot sell or dispose of the Oscar statuette without first offering to sell it to the Academy for $1. "Award winners have no rights whatsoever in the Academy copyright or goodwill in the Oscar statuette or in its trademark," the Academy stated. Notably, each trophy reportedly costs over $400 to produce. "

But you can sell Nobel prizes, Golden Globes, Emmys, etc.

No offense, but how many people want a Greg Louganis Olympic medal? At least for more than $5.

Many people, I'd think. There are people into collecting memorabilia.

Also, the medal is going to be worth a lot more than $5 purely for the metal - "Olympic gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of six grams of gold."

Medals rarely come up for sale but Cubans are more likely to sell theirs because they need money. "Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo’s gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics fetched $73,200, and his compatriot Iván Pedroso’s long jump gold medal from Sydney 2000 went for $71,335."

The Mexican who won the billion dollar Powerball will probably buy these

His personal value has decreased significantly, because despite being a person of something, he got really old for having been out in the sun for too long.

After spending your entire life perfecting a sport, if you cannot convert it to endorsement deals and such, you really aren't going to have a lot of money.

It's not like he could start a career working in finance or something. Eric Heiden got a medical degree from Stanford and became an othopedic surgeon, but that's an exception. Few of these elite level athletes in non-lucrative sports have many options available to them.

Besides endorsements, he might have been able to coach other divers, but after transferring colleges a few times, he ended up as a theater and dance major - not particularly lucrative. Few Olympic athletes became Hollywood stars.

[quote] Few Olympic athletes became Hollywood stars.

The only two successful examples I can think of both played Tarzan. Buster Crabbe ( gold medal in the 400 Meter Swimming Freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics) and Johnny Weissmuller ( 5 Olympic Gold Medals 1924-1928 for swimming. Broke the record in each race, and one bronze medal for water polo at the Olympic Games in 1924)

Greg doesn't have children to leave his medals to, so he can leave them in his will to a charity or a museum, or he can raise some decent money to allow him a comfortable nest egg. He never made much money from sports endorsements when he was younger due to discrimination against gays. I don't blame him, he can make over $2M from the auction proceeds, so why not?

I'm Team Louganis. If he wants to sell them, why not. He's a lovely man and tries to give back to the diving community as well as being a great LGBTQ spokesman.

Greg Louganis, was always beautiful, inside and outside.

Why would anyone want them?

[quote]Why would anyone want them?

Why wouldn’t someone who is interested in sports memorabilia want them?

The man is an Olympic legend in his field. Let’s not forget being openly gay cost him a lot of $ . The hate he had to endure was ridiculous. I enjoy pointless bitchery as much as the next homo, but damn, give the guy a break. He took one for the team. I wish him nothing but happiness.

[quote] It’s theres to do whatever with.

Oh, dear

R8 lol clown.

He wasn't openly gay while he was competing, so I don't think it cost him all that much in terms of endorsements.

Companies never chose him for endorsements because despite his really good looks he came off a gay, even if he hadn't come out.

Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics. They're like male gymnasts, nobody cares. Olympic sports are the one place where female athletes tend to shine on the endorsement spectrum

I met him at a book signing 20 years ago, nice guy. It’s likely an effort to shore up his retirement or pay down debt. I’d rather have my home paid off than medals sitting on a shelf.

[quote]spitting on Michelle Kwan

Pics please.

He himself said doesn't attribute not getting endorsements to him being gay but because the country was obsessed with Mary Lou retton. I suppose it could be a mix of the two.

[quote] Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics.

Did he even get the cover of a Wheaties box?

R31 I googled that because I was curious

[quote] I googled that because I was curious

Well what was the answer?

[quote] Divers have never gotten endorsements post-Olympics.

Does that include crocheting wunderkind Tom Daley, or was his only endorsement from horse DLB?

r33 Probably best for you to check for yourself - many reasons behind my decision

Louganis did not get a Wheaties box, Mary Lou Retton did, however.

That's not entirely true, R27. Of course, despite my name, unlike Greg, I'm not actually one.

Male figure skaters don’t get endorsements either.

I was going to post about this,OP,but I didn't want it DL to rip Greg to shreds wondering what the motive was behind selling his Olympic medals. Auction aside ,I'm from Greg's generation, and I always got the impression that he wanted to be 'saved' by a partner. He was adopted by a white family,is mixed with Samoan ancestry,said he was called the n-word growing and is a female leaning gay. That had to be a lot to deal with ,so he turned to sports/swimming 🥽 which we know he excelled at. But he was in a closeted relationship with a man that belittled and sexually assaulted him-in addition to leaving him financially strapped and most likely caught HIV from him, according to Greg. That man has since died ,but Greg is still here.

For whatever reasons, Greg never got the lucrative endorsements that come form being an Olympic gold medalist when he was in his prime . I wish he would have parlayed his notoriety into a line of men's swimwear/underwear 🩳🩲 or something along those lines . If he had better management,that would have been the natural path to follow for a celebrated Olympic champion like Greg Louganis. It's still not too late for that-he doesn't have to do the day to day work for a man in his 60's -just license his name.

I wish Greg all the best -he deserves to have some stability in his later years and if selling his medals can do that 😉,more power to him. The medals are just a physical representation of all that he has accomplished. He will always have the memories of what he achieved and that's all that matters.

Fem leaning gay I meant !

[quote] I wish he would have parlayed his notoriety into a line of men's swimwear/underwear 🩳🩲

Is he into fisting?

He seems like a really great person

A woman I worked with kept her bronze medal on her office desk. A co-worker asked her why and she said "Well you already know I'm mean, I just want to remind you I'm faster than you". She was a sweetheart, the only Olympic medalist I ever met.

R43...A bit of Olympic trivia for fans of the TV show 'Strangers with Candy'. The actress Delores (Dwyer) Duffy who was the school secretary, Iris Puffybush actually completed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and won the *Bronze* medal.

sorry about the bad link

He's auctioning them off to raise money for The Damien Center, an HIV/AIDS foundation. They're raising money for a new building. It's on his website.

Next stop:

[quote]He's auctioning them off to raise money for The Damien Center.

Why, thank you! Saving a nice place for you in hell, Greg!