What 36 Olympic Athletes Do for Their Day Jobs

Although training for the Olympics can be a full-time job, many athletes need another job to pay the rent.  Remember, the International Olympic Committee doesn't pay them squat.

Some of them have predictable jobs, coaching the next generation of athletes, but others  are harder to guess. Like U.S. fencing star Race Imboden, who moonlights as a DJ.

Here's what 36 Olympic athletes do to pay the bills:

1. Triathlon Gwen Jorgensen works as an accountant at Ernst & Young.

2. Hong Kong's Chi Yip Cheung is a full-time fireman when he's not competing in the judo matches.

3. Norwegian marathon runner Urige Buta is also a janitor.

4. South African archer Karen Anne Hultzer is a landscaper by profession.

5. Great Britain's Natasha Perdue is a trash collector by day and a weight lifter at the Olympics.

6. American sailor Debbie Capozzi works at her family's Italian ice shop called Tina's Italian Ices in Patchogue, N.Y…...

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