Final Four, football, fencing? College athlete salaries will deeply impact future US Olympic hopes


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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The financial fates of college basketball and football will have an outsized impact on America's ability to field successful Olympic teams beyond this summer's Paris Games. NIL compensation, potential player salaries, conference realignment, TV deals and tournament expansion can all have an effect. Hundreds of non-revenue sports programs on campus feed the U.S. Olympic teams and if they need to make cuts, it will likely affect how well America does at the games.

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