Simone Biles celebrating after winning gold in Paris last week. Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times

How Olympians get paid

By Sunday, all of the gold, silver and bronze medals will have been awarded, and that’ll be it for the Paris Games. The athletes will head back to training, and the eyes of the world will turn to something else.

But their showing in the Games gave some of those athletes a newfound stardom, and because Olympians aren’t paid like professional athletes in soccer or American football are, they have to supplement their income through commercial partners — or reality television. (Even a deal that promises $40,000 a year can be life-changing.) Here’s how athletes like Simone Biles, who was included on Forbes’s top 20 list of highest-paid female athletes last year, managed it.