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As NCAA Teams Subsidize World-Class Instruction for Foreign Olympians, Some Cry Foul + "Arkansas is part of an unlikely training ground for foreign Olympians: the NCAA. At American colleges, athletes can receive an experience they can't get anywhere else: In addition to first-class facilities and coaching, they also can get room and board and top-tier education worth more than $50,000 annually." + "The damage adds up. At the 2008 Beijing Games, foreign athletes from U.S. universities earned at least 28 medals for their countries—and possibly twice that many...foreign athletes from U.S. universities may have won 60 medals in 2008...48 countries fielded athletes from the Pacific-12 Conference alone" + "Critics wonder why athletic scholarships, on which the NCAA places limits per sport, so often go to international athletes." "Efforts to limit foreign athletes on American campuses have failed. About 20 years ago, then-Auburn swimming coach Dave Marsh proposed a 20% cap on scholarships to foreigners, arguing that it would preserve opportunities for young Americans and improve U.S. Olympic fortunes. But Marsh says he was told such a cap may be illegal"