Quote Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama View Post
Whereas last night they said Shawn Johnson's family took out a second mortgage on their house more than once to keep her training.

Then they switch to diving where the one girl and her dad moved to be near the good diving center while her mother stayed working in California. It takes a bit of money to maintain two households, I would think but who knows we just maintain one.

I read an article on how much it really costs to raise an Olympian, lots of money goes into to seeing your little darling on the podium of a sport.
I wonder about all of the others who made similar sacrifices (money and time and effort) whose kids didn't make it onto the team, let alone the podium.