For most athletes, once they win it's time to hit the circuit and show off their shiny prize. As NBC has the rights to the Olympic broadcasts, it's not surprising to see the stars on the Today Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. From there, it's likely they will travel to Los Angeles for more opportunities to showcase their accomplishment. Those moments most likely will be outside of the NBC umbrella.
Olympic gold medal winners
will be on TV
The Olympic gold medal winners will be on talk shows, radio shows and even be offered a few commercial opportunities. Looking to see the payoff for their hard work, most invitations will be accepted to share in their moment. In a way it's almost predictable how the athletes will be flaunted around America. There is nothing wrong with that as the fans do love seeing the winner.
Thankfully the Olympics have ongoing events for the next several weeks. This offers each winner a chance to be part of history and to come home to showoff their medals. Stacking the wins in such a natural way, one story won't outweigh another and everyone will get their due recognition.
In the end, when Hollywood welcomes Olympic gold medal winners it will offer them more fame than most people ever thought possible. As fans see winners come from Rio, there isn't an immediate recognition from athlete to celebrity. However, once their faces and medals are shown to America repeatedly on TV, fans begin to treat them special. And that's a good thing as they worked so hard to win for Team USA.