Ben McCrum
A Team GB athlete banned from competing at the Olympics has revealed the stunning amount he has made on OnlyFans.
Back in April, a British Olympic hopeful was officially suspended from competing in canoeing by Paddle UK due to allegations of his behaviour across his social media accounts.
Kurts Adams Rozentals had decided to decided make the most of his status as a a top canoeist by joining OnlyFans, a subscription-based website typically associated with adult content.
After a disciplinary panel looked into the allegations, they discovered an 'explicit' video that he shared in March and handed him a ban from competing and training for two-years for bringing the sport into 'serious disrepute'.
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And now, the 23-year-old has spoken exclusively to LADbible Group to explain his decision to create OnlyFans content and answer if it has been worth receiving the ban.
Rozentals has admitted that it had been his hope to represent Britain at the at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, but felt that it was becoming increasingly impossible due to the poor funding available to him.
The last sum that he had received from Paddle UK to fund his development for the entire year was £16,000.
"The funding was not increasing, but everything else was getting way more expensive," Rozentals told LADbible Group.
"I was like, ‘I have to do something, or I'm going to have to just quit this Olympic dream.'
"I was sitting on the start line and I'm worried about how to pay rent,. It just really removes all the joy. So then I decided, I’m going to launch [OnlyFans]."
Rozentals officially launched his OnlyFans account in December and made more than £100,000 between January and May.
The canoeist explained that news of his ban actually helped him grow his account even further, as his new fans wanted to hear all of the details of what led to the ban.
The video that allegedly led to his ban attracted a lot of attention as Rozentals filmed it on a moving plane and alluded to 'getting his freak on.'
Although he remains adamant that the video, that he shared to Instagram, had followed all of the social media platform's gudielines and 'wasn't anything that crazy.'
He admitted: "It's cost me my canoeing career. But what that video made...
"In a couple hours, I think it was like four or five thousand. Something like that, which is crazy amounts of money. As someone who grew up with absolutely no money whatsoever, it's crazy."
However, despite the ban, Rozentals is still eager to work his way back into Olympic contention, as he intends to use the money to fund his training while supporting his single mother.
"I've gotten a lot of heat about [OnlyFans], but I don’t regret it," he assured.
"It's allowed me to put food on the table and enjoy training. I just got to figure out, one way or another, how to get to the Olympics now."