Her career requires her to play tournaments all over the world, which quickly adds to the bill, since she has to spend between 20,000 and 25,000 euros to finance a season. The fighter, who left her job in finance to devote herself full-time to MMA, has given herself until the end of 2026 to make a living from her sport.
If there are contracts for high-level athletes, notably offered by the National Sports Agency (ANS), this only concerns a handful of elected officials, who are far from leading a lavish life. But at the same time, athletes among the best in their discipline had to create online prize pools to finance their preparation and hope to bring medals to France.
For others, several solutions are available to them to finance their career: having a food job, creating a fund on a platform like Support your sportsman, or becoming an ambassador for the army or the police, for example.
Many high-level athletes denounce a lack of support and funding, to the point that some, despite their success in competition, become influencers to finance their careers.
Then, the point of view of Riner and Manaudou seemed more understandable.
To meet her needs and finance her career, the Rennaise has, like many, chosen social networks. A lot of work, which takes up all of his free time between his two daily training sessions, but which has allowed him to gather more than 100,000 subscribers on his Instagram account, and to attract a first sponsor.