Day jobs on hold as athletes chase their Olympic dreams

VANCOUVER: A lucky few athletes come to the Winter Games with a sheaf of lucrative sponsorship deals in their back pockets but others have to put their day jobs on hold as they chase Olympic glory.

Whether it's working as police officers, firefighters or making a mint as an entrepreneur, Olympians have many different ways of earning a crust.

Police officers and biathletes Tobias Eberhard of Austria and Bulgaria's Nina Klenovska have traded their pistols for 0.22 caliber (5.6mm) small-bore rifles in Canada.