This year alone, the U.S.O.C. spent $18 million on its Podium Program, financing athletes with equipment or ice time and providing for their coaches, trainers and psychologists.
Despite the sponsor negotiations and the recession, Scherr said he was confident that the U.S.O.C. would be able to finance its athletes without a hiccup.
He and Israel's Olympic committee president, Zvi Varshaviak, met with the head of the I.O.C., Jacques Rogge, in Switzerland in January, and will meet again in May to continue dialogue toward working to help, train and finance Palestinian athletes, male and female, to compete in the next Olympics.
The N.C.A.A. said the money from the fine would be used to finance student-athlete welfare programs.
Jim Scherr, the chief executive of the U.S.O.C., emphasized that "the last place" the committee would look to save money would be in financing to athletes and national governing bodies.
Along the way, he discussed the strategy to tie financing for athletes to performance-based goals that will be tailored to each sport, an approach far less threatening than the ill-received money-for-medals design that led to Blake's undoing.
"We have urgent needs for some of the players in our pipeline, such as line-of-credit and vehicle financing," reads an e-mail letter that the firm's founder, Dionne M. Muhammad Dionne M. Muhammad, recently sent out to Wall Street banks and other firms that have practices managing finances for athletes.
The case was heard by lower courts, who ruled that the USOC has the right to allocate its finances to athletes at different rates.
The United States is one of the few nations that do not publicly finance its Olympic athletes.
There are numerous examples of subgroups of "athletes," "finance wizards," "ideologues," "human relations/efficiency experts" and "Greeks" across American higher education that directly impact policy, sometimes detrimentally.
