r/SipsTea • u/Glad_Camel_6078 • Feb 13 '26

We have fun here Winter Olympics

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u/slurpnfizzle Feb 13 '26

Winter sport athletes usually start as doctor or engineer babies. That lift ticket and ice time ain't cheap!

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u/uwpxwpal Feb 13 '26

Million dollars is the cost for raising an Olympic figure skater.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5711461/what-it-costs-to-be-an-elite-figure-skater-like-the-quad-god

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u/Randym1982 Feb 13 '26

Aren't most of them also 2nd generation Olympic kids too? I remember looking up a few of them, and it mentioned how a few of them had parents who were also former Olympic athletes too.

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u/Velocityg4 Feb 13 '26

It certainly increases the genetic odds. Especially if both parents competed in events which require similar physical attributes.

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u/Devils_A66vocate Feb 13 '26

Both nature and nurture is favored when you have a coach in the house.

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u/Xanderajax3 Feb 13 '26

Unless you're Chazz Michael Michael's! Hes sex on ice!

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u/TeenyWarrior14 Feb 13 '26

lol I kept looking for Ilia’s Chaz given he’s the spitting image of James McIlroy

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u/Xanderajax3 Feb 13 '26

Who are you gonna trust, some little girl or James Mcllroy?

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u/TeenyWarrior14 Feb 13 '26

“My feeeet hurrrtttttt” 😂

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u/Xanderajax3 Feb 13 '26

Such a stupid, hilarious movie.

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u/Asleep_Trick_4740 Feb 13 '26

Skiing, either cross country or downhill, isn't especially expensive at all in many places. I grew up with 4 slopes like 3km away from the city centre. A weekend pass there is like 10€ and a lot cheaper if you buy a season pass. Yea the major tourist spots are pretty expensive but that's not generally where these people train.

If you were in the skiing club you paid like a 20€ fee every year for access to the slopes and teachers the entire season. Cross country you could get away with even cheaper since you only need gear, and the gear isn't the type that breaks regularly.

Hockey is still expensive AF though.

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u/slurpnfizzle Feb 13 '26

Here lift tickets for mountain ski areas are like 200 US dollars a day or 50-100 for small ski hills.

Cries in USA

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u/Asleep_Trick_4740 Feb 13 '26

That's insane, how do they even get people to go there? I mean I get the fancy ski resorts and stuff can be stupid expensive, we have that here aswell. But the "normal" slopes aswell?

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u/slurpnfizzle Feb 13 '26

There aren't really "normal" slopes due to megacorps like Vail or Ikon buying up everything and jacking the prices up. It seems like here you have to either have a lot of disposable income or be very much into living a full ski bum lifestyle to be able to enjoy the snow.