Disgraced Runner

I am sure since everyone and their brother is a sports freak, has heard about Marion Jones. She has admitted to using 'roids . She has handed over her 3 golf medals and 2 bronze to the Olympic people and her name will be taken out of the book and the medals will be awarded to the also rans. She will also be required to pay back $100,000 in bonuses.

WAIT! WAIT! Pay back $100,000 in bonuses? I thought that the Olympics were for AMATEUR athletes? Did I miss yet another memo? When did we start paying the competitors? was that not an argument of why the Russians won so many medals, was they were really pro athletes?

Are all our Olympic athletes paid? Where does this end?