Jon Frankel of HBO Sports sits down with two snowboarding Olympians to talk about the United States Olympic Committee’s lack of financial assistance in a segment they named “Going for Broke.” In the piece they examine why so many U.S. Olympic hopefuls are going broke going for gold and why the USOC offers so little monetary compensation American athletes winning medals that they are more than happy to take credit for. For full episode GO HERE.

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