Coming off of a breakout performance at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, now four-time Olympic medalist Maya DiRado has announced that she will delay her career at McKinsey & Co. to embark on a post-Olympic tour complete with media, speaking, and endorsements.
The four month delay was actually suggested by McKinsey according to Jeannie Goldstein, a partner at Chicago Sports & Entertainment Partners, which is DiRado’s agency.
Goldstein commented that, “they [McKinsey] actually reached out to her and said we want to offer you support in continuing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This isn’t a long-term thing.”
Originally DiRado had planned on retiring as soon as she returned back from the Olympic Games and would begin work on September 9th in Atlanta as a business analyst.
Goldstein continued, expressing “I don’t think she realized the impact, the groundswell back in the U.S. because they’re kind of in that [Rio] bubble. When she came back, I said, ‘You know, you were on TV for every other night for a week in the U.S. and you’re kind of a big deal.'”
Fans shouldn’t get their hopes up about a DiRado return as Goldstein confirmed, “She’s McKinsey bound and Atlanta bound and all that stuff.”
Full report by Sports Business Daily can be found here.
She’s 4 time Olympic medalist, not 4 time Olympian. How old was she 12 years ago in Athens?
no shot she goes to work in real world. once she gets taste of how awful the real world is, she will be running back to swimming…let’s see, work in a cubicle and crunch numbers or get endorsements and try for olympic glory …