After over two years of preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics – one that warranted a move to Houston to train – Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos set out to conquer the mats carrying the dreams of France vying for a podium finish in gymnastics. But the fall from the uneven bars and missing the podium was followed by a much harder blow, as the financial support that once buoyed her career began to disappear.

Recently, the French star appeared in an interview with ‘On Refait Le Sport’. Therein, she openly detailed the financial and emotional vacuum that she fell into following the mishaps at the Paris Olympics. Her income went from steady brand contracts to surviving paycheck to paycheck.

“Today, I have nothing,” de Jesus dos Santos replied. “Well, I don’t want to say I have nothing, but it’s

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