Team GB Olympian Klass Francisks quits Britain to compete for Latvia — after starting an OnlyFans.
Klass Francisks Rozentals, 20, has left Team GB and will now compete for Latvia after launching an adults-only subscription page to fund his career in canoe slalom.
The athlete said he turned to the platform after conventional side hustles like bartending and construction work made it impossible to keep up his training schedule.
“I started my page to fund my sports career after dedicating my life to it, but never receiving funding,” he wrote on Instagram. “I can finally afford my dream. But knowing it could be taken away at any time because of how I fund it sucks.”
Rather than risk a ban from Paddle UK — which suspended his brother Kurts Adams Rozentals last year over his own explicit content — Klass has switched allegiance to Latvia, where his family is originally from.
His argument is simple: canoe slalom athletes need between £100,000 and £180,000 over a four-year Olympic cycle. The annual grant from Paddle UK? £21,000.
“Two choices,” he wrote. “Either normalise paying athletes reasonable salaries. Or normalise them funding themselves through whatever means necessary.”
He’s not alone. Jack Laugher, Noah Williams and Matty Lee have all had OnlyFans pages without facing bans. The difference with the Rozentals brothers, reportedly, was the explicitness of the content.
