>>149935319This.
Many promising talents in all kinds of sports (except men's football) either have to rely on scholarships to cover living costs or join the army, police, border patrol or fire departments and work a rather normal job in order to get some money and be granted leave from work to attend any events. So basically they are working a normal 40 hours a week job, have to all their training in their spare time and have to rely on their employers to allow them to attend events. This is the status quo in almost every field of sports even the national womens football team has this kind of thing going on.
Most of the womens football team are/were police women, soldiers or university students with scholarships until they got a contract big enough to cover living expenses.
Even most of germany's olympic gold medalists are just "parttime athletes" with normal day jobs.
One of the most current examples gotta be Sjoke Nüsken of the women's football team. She is a civil engineering student with a shitton of scholarships. It is a demanding lifestyle, which not many people are able to pull off.