NEW YORK - APRIL 06: Figure skater Johnny Weir attends the 2009 Skating with the Stars at Wollman Rink in Central Park on April 6, 2009 in New York City.
2009年度“和明星一起滑冰”活动于美国时间4月6日在纽约中央公园的沃尔曼冰场举行，Weir也作为到场明星参与此项慈善活动。
采访：http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/04/johnny_weir_will_not_do_porn_f.html
Figure-skating champion Johnny Weir says the economic slump has put the brakes on sponsorship deals for athletes in non-major-league sports. “It was hard enough anyway, especially for men skaters, but now with the economy the way it is, there’s nothing out there for us,” Weir told us at the Skating With the Stars gala at Wollman Rink last night. He says his federation still pays for travel, and he gets some backing from his ice rink and skate manufacturer, but that’s about it. “Everything else I pay for: costumes, this and that,” Weir says.
活动中，Weir接受采访时说，金融危机已经影响到了赞助商们对运动员的赞助，尤其是像花样滑冰这样的运动：“我们的处境过去就不好，尤其是男单选手，现在这样的经济状况更是雪上加霜。”Weir还对记者说，美国冰协仍然会支付他们的旅行费用，他们仍能从冰场和冰鞋制造商那里得到经济支持，但也就是这些了，“一切都要钱，服装，这个，那个......”
But as a sort of iconoclast, Weir knows his is not necessarily the image that mass-market brands go for. “I’m not commercial, I’m not for Special K cereal and I’m not a Wheaties boy; I’m a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there,” he says. So who would be his dream sponsor? “A big fashion company would make me so happy — Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton. Or Teterboro Airport and their private jets.”
But he won’t take just anyone’s money. “Honestly, I got offered to be in a porn once. It was after the Olympics,” Weir says. He turned that offer down, but if this recession drags on, all bets are off. “Maybe in a few years,” he said, laughing. “If things keep getting worse.”
Weir也知道自己不是传统型偶像，所以自己未必会是大牌赞助商趋之若骛的赞助对象：“我不是商业型的，不是专为那些麦片广告打造的偶像，我有那么点点与众不同，一点点出挑。”那么谁才是他梦中的赞助商呢？“如果是大型时尚品牌，那我会十分高兴：巴黎世家，路易·威登，或是泰德波罗和他们的私人客机。”但不是什么钱Weir都会去赚的，“说句实话吧，曾经在冬奥会后，某色情期刊给了我个offer。”不过Weir拒绝了这个offer，但如果经济继续萧条下去，那一切就难说了，Weir大笑：“如果情况越来越糟，那过几年（我真的要上色情期刊了）。” |
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