Alica Schmidt, the German monitor star who was dubbed “the world’s sexiest athlete,” mentioned earlier this week that she had turned down a serious payday from a well known sponsor.
The 25-year-old runner informed the OMR podcast that she wasn’t fully into the sponsor that had supplied her the deal. Schmidt has greater than 5 million followers on Instagram alone and has a separate cope with BOSS.
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Alica Schmidt attends the amfAR Cannes Gala 2023 at Resort du Cap-Eden-Roc on Might 25, 2023, in Cap d’Antibes, France. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis by way of Getty Photos)
“Two months ago, I received an offer from a well-known brand. But I wasn’t 100% behind it,” she mentioned, by way of Germany’s Bild newspaper. “I don’t feel comfortable with that. That would have been in the mid to high six figures. For a campaign.”
The New York Post famous in October that Schmidt had mentioned that members of the German nationwide workforce get about $739 a month in sponsorship offers by means of Sporthilfe, which helps the athletes.
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Alica Schmidt of Germany through the official athlete coaching session forward of the World Athletics Championships at Nationwide Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary. (Sam Barnes/Sportsfile by way of Getty Photos)
Schmidt made the German Olympic workforce for the 2020 Video games a number of years in the past however didn’t compete. She’s aiming to make the workforce for the Paris Olympics in the summertime.
“You have to go beyond your limits every day. It also often happens that I throw up after training, because that’s how you suffer,” she mentioned. “It’s also the best feeling when you’ve done it and pushed yourself and noticed that progress somewhere.”
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Athletes Mona Mayer (l-r, Germany), Alica Schmidt (Germany), Luna Thiel (Germany) and Carolina Krafzik (Germany) in motion. (Marcus Brandt/image alliance by way of Getty Photos)
She was on the workforce for its silver medal efficiency within the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships and picked up a bronze medal within the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships.
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