Mondo's decision to represent Sweden and why it's the most practical decision

Since there are suddenly a lot of T&F experts every Olympic/World Championship cycle, I figured I'd shed some light into why even though his decision to represent Sweden is definitely financial, but the most practical decision for his career.

Getting these out the way. Yes there are:
More people that care in Sweden/Europe than the US (that's an American problem)
More opportunities outside of the US (another American problem)
Coaching positions for his parents to help him at professional meets/championship competition (USATF problem)
No national trials meet before the Olympics (USATF problem again, also stupid to risk injury in a sport where you need to be 100% at all times)

Here are some reasons why it would've been a bad decision to join Team USA:
USATF is picky about who is on their payroll. From my understanding, USATF did not want to pay for Greg (his father) to be part of the organization and foot any bills for Greg to help coach Mondo in competition. Greg has flown on his own dime to help out Mondo at times, but Sweden also has given Mondo the autonomy to have him as his coach at all competitions. This includes Sweden helping fund trips for championship competition (Worlds/Olympics) and that's a cost saver there.

Training and living in Sweden reduces travel time and expenses for meets that are go on in that side of the world, particularly the Diamond League events. You have:
Stockholm
Doha
Monaco
Paris
London
Zurich
Lausanne
Rome
Shanghai
Brussels
The two North American meets? Eugene & New York City

Believe it or not, the athletes do not have an organization to fund all of their trips every single time. Part of that comes from their dealers with their agents. Agents will set up the trip and its basically the athlete's responsibility to pay them back by winning OR helping pay with an appearance fee. An appearance is paid to athletes to come to big meets so that the stadiums have someone to see. Even then, agents are still taking a cut from athletes like Mondo.

Training in Sweden is way easier than training in Louisiana. Great year round weather + paid physio staff + access to the track when he wants are all something that would come at another cost/be more difficult to obtain in the US, specifically Louisiana since he will be training with his parents.

His brand is 1000000x easier to spread in Europe. Red Bull (Austria), Omega (Switzerland), Polestar (Sweden) are some of his top sponsors outside of his primary apparel sponsor Puma (Germany), which all appeal to his Swedish side. He absolutely could have gotten deals here in the US to help supplement his career, but very likely would not come anywhere close to what he's making now.

People saying he's denouncing his citizenship need to get a damn grip. The US and USATF would not have done a damn thing to help further his career anywhere close to what Sweden has done for him since he joined their junior team. It's crazy to fault a guy for making the best decision for himself when the other decision was to "mUh AmErIcA".