On February 13, Beijing time, Chinese-American figure skater Chen Wei successfully crowned the queen at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and also achieved the great cause of winning all the world competitions in this winter Olympic cycle. According to Forbes magazine in the United States, with this gold medal, Chen Wei in addition to receiving a prize of $37,500, off-site income will also double from $1 million a year ago.
Forbes estimates that Chen Wei has earned at least $1 million in guaranteed income in the year before the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, he earned additional bonuses from brand sponsors for his excellence on ice. After successfully winning the gold medal in figure skating men's singles at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chen Wei's income will increase significantly, and is expected to exceed $2 million. John Gerard Reddy, a sports lawyer at the University of South Carolina, said: "Chen Wei is very attractive to the brand. Incomplete statistics, Chen Wei currently has long-term agreements with 11 partners, many of which overlap with the sponsors of the American Ice Association, including a well-known sports brand and a well-known automobile brand.
Many media have compared Chen Wei and Gu Ailing, both of whom are of Chinese descent. In fact, compared to Gu Ailing, whose ancestral home is only half from China, Chen Wei's parents' ancestral home is Chinese, which also meets the conditions of planning. Of course, Chen Wei, who is already a computer science student at Yale University, did not naturalize back to his homeland like Gu Ailing, and still chose to represent the United States team in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. This choice has a significant impact on the income of the two, according to domestic media reports, Gu Ailing's single endorsement price reached 2 million US dollars, and the value will continue to rise with her wonderful performance in this Winter Olympics. On the other hand, if Chen Wei had chosen to naturalize and return to China, with the popularity of figure skating in domestic ice and snow sports, I believe that his endorsement income could at least double more than ten times.