Naively betting no. Why would a lot of amateurs compete at the olympics?

@DavidChee many Olympic athletes are amateurs in the sense of not being professional (paid). They are generally pretty skilled though... but not always!

Meet Elizabeth Swaney, the American skier who scammed her way to the Olympics

Here’s how a very average skier used her brains and determination to achieve an Olympic dream

@DavidChee Olympic games have quotas per countrie and surfing is really polarized on US, Brazil and Australia - Japan, France, Portugal and SA have good competitors too. But probably other countries will have surfers without intimacy with waves that powerful.