In what year did the Olympics change to allow Professional sportspeople compete?

Question

In what year did the Olympics change to allow Professional sportspeople compete?

Answer 1

An IOC president that opposed professional athletes retired in 1972, and that allowed amateurism to be dropped from the Olympic charter during the 1970s.

There are still a few sports like boxing and baseball that still individually require athletes to be amateurs, but even those definitions are much looser than the old definitions.

Note also that even though athletes are allowed to be professionals now, they aren't quite allowed to be as capitalist as they might be outside the Olympics.  There are restrictions on advertising and certain forms of payments.

Answer 2

Well how could you have olypmics without sportspeople?

Answer 3

Im not sure but it was silly because the olympics should be about the best in the world, not the least paid.  

Answer 4

I not sure about the Olympic but since the 70th sport people said how hard it was making a living as they had to take so much time off work.

I know the Olympic are 2 and half weeks but what about the training and other championships.  

In 1956 if you got paid even a small a mount you where concided professional. So it was always going to happen

Answer 5

Wasn't the amateur status just a farce anyway?