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Bob Balk is a former Paralympic canoe athlete who attended the 2012 London Games as an IOC volunteer and also received per diem money. In a recent phone interview, he recalled his amazement when he learned how much money he and other volunteers were getting to attend the Olympics.Every morning, Balk recalled, a crowd of IOC members and volunteers gathered in a hotel room in London to collect their daily spending money. “They had a $100-bill-counting machine, and people were standing in line to get their stacks of hundred-dollar bills,” Balk said. “It was crazy.”Balk, like other IOC members and volunteers, had his flight and hotel bills covered, a car service to get around London, and a bevy of free meals. When Balk got home, he still had $10,000 in per diem cash, he said, which he just deposited in the bank.

Ich war 1994 als Volunteer bei der IPC-Leichtathletik-WM in Berlin.
Unterkunft und Verpflegung waren frei - und es gab zusätzlich ein per Diem (das ja eigentlich dazu da sein sollte, die Kosten für Verpflegung etc) abzudecken. Zwar waren es keine hunderte von Dollar, doch für die 14 Tage war es ein nettes Sümmchen.
Bei Leichtathletikveranstaltungen bekommen die Kampfrichter DEUTLICH weniger...

Ciao

dirk