Comments on: Mitcham gets a stamp but no sponsors yet

By: Kaden Hayes

Kaden Hayes — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:13:26 +0000

i often get indigestion when i eat so much without taking foods high in fiber*:,

By: Dave M

Dave M — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:21:12 +0000

Well, he had better get some endorsement deal because that is a great story. Esp. for the fact that he ALONE prevented a Chinese sweep at the diving competitions. NO ONE ELSE! Him alone and he set a record!

By: Jamie Mack

Jamie Mack — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:21:36 +0000

Give the DNA cover to start

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:28:06 +0000

It’s hard to say what is going on here. Is it sponsors afraid of Matt’s sexuality? Or has Matt himself dropped the ball? Matt is entitled to every bit of peace and rest he can get, but is jetting off to France — right after your big moment — the smartest thing to do? He has to know that there would be huge interest in hearing his story from HIS mouth. He should have done 3-4 interviews, released them one by one over a few weeks, take the vacation and then get rich when in October upon his return.

I really hope his sponsorship requests goes beyond the Aussie Bum deal.

The other thng to keep in mind is this — Matt is not wealthy, at all. A free trip around Europe with several weeks in France has got to be a dream come true…or as Busselton Mail puts it “mooches around Europe”.

Plus, for those that read blogs and fansites, he should have released a interview with the basics. The rumors about him, Lachlan, their relationship, his father, his mother’s relationship with Lachlan are out of control.

By: msd

msd — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:22:16 +0000

It’s will be interesting to see whether his success translates into big sponsorship bucks.

I hope it does but going on a six week holiday straight after Beijing probably wasn’t the way to do it. To capitalise he really needed to go home to Australia straight away, do interviews, bask in the attention etc. You need to “strike while the iron is hot”, so to speak, because the media interest only lasts so long and in this day and age, people’s attention spans are appallingly short. But I guess he didn’t think he’d win when he planned a European vacation.

Swimmers like Rice are royalty Down Under. Everyone else comes second and has to fight for limited sponsorship money. A female diver won gold for Australia in Athens (same event as Matt) and it didn’t make her a rich woman, or even very high profile. He’s going to have to milk it a bit and not everyone is comfortable doing that. Oh and get a good agent too.