New Zealand Athlete Who Opened Escort Service Earns Olympic
A taekwondo athlete who opened escort agency to help fund his campaign to complete at the London Olympics has succeeded in winning a place a new Zealand games team.
Logan Campbell opened what he call “a high-class ” agency in Auckland in 2009 to help raise the 300.000 new Zealand dollars ($ 245.000) he believe he needed to compete internationally to qualify for the London Olympic. Prostitution is legal in new Zealand.
Campbell sold the agency a year later after the fund raising move was criticized by taekwondo new Zealand and the national Olympic committee.
“ At the team taekwondo wasn’t getting any funding at all.” Campbell said “to get good at the sport, you had to get international competition an there wasn’t any funding for us.”
Campbell said that changed after the media got involved.
“[sponsors] started funding taekwondo and I didn’t need the escort agency anymore.” He said
Campbell will compete in the under-60 kg class in london as one of three new Zealand taekwondo athlete . he said finished in the top 16 in the under 58 kg class at the 2008 beijing Olympic
Campbell said when he initially opened the escort agency. He received a letter from the new Zealand Olympic committee saying it was not an appropriate business to be connected with taekwondo or the Olympic movement .
He said he was warned that his selection changes could be reduce if the continued to operate the business and decided to sell the agency in 2010.” A lot of things have transpired since then,” Campbell said.
He received agrant of 50.000 new Zealand dollars from new Zealand’s central sport funding agency which enabled him to train full time and compete overseas. He in the weight division in oceania.
“ after I qualified there was no .’oh we are not going to send you because you had an escort agency,’ “ he said “we sent our application in , they approved us all and they called me and said, “ congratulation , you’re going to olympics