Actually, StaticSky, i am.
I'm an international level athlete, specialized in Long Jump.
I jumped 7m62, if you really want to know, and was in European Championships of that track&field discipline.
I can even forward you URL of the article of an international match i made back in 1999 in New york,in the New York Times (it seems quite a known newspaper in your country,am i right?).
Then,yes,i think i meet your "standards".
Have you performed such thing yourself, before talking about somebody you don't have a clue about?
Actually it is more like 2000 Euros than us$ (which makes $3100),because us$ is very low.
You're right,i'm still a college student, and i'm trying to be a lawyer, and earn way more than that.
I'm "stuck" at 28 as a student (even if i graduated high school at 16), because of the track&field carrier. I never won $0.01 in my sport,because there is pratically none to win unless you're in world top 10,but i didn't train harde for money,i did it for my own pleasure.
Although that was nice to win national titles.
When you have training sessions 2 times a day, even on Sundays, you haven't time to study & graduate easily,like a normal student would do. And make money to live.
I have great memories of PLAYING my games,yes.
Collecting them as well,but playing them mostly. This is a video game board here,right?
I have tons of great memories with my friends,families,lovers, sport competitions...but is it the place to talk about this?
The bunch of crap here, just seems to be your post.
You're right,you're completely wrong.