Diving

Mark Lenzi, the 1992 Olympic three-meter diving champion, says he may have to sell his Olympic gold medal to raise money for flight school.

“I really don’t want to do it,” Lenzi said. “But if worse comes to worst, I’ll have to. A lot of people ask me what it’s like to be rich and famous. Well, I’m not rich.”

Lenzi, 25, says that unless he can find another way to pay the $25,000 tuition at the school he wants to attend, he will sell his medal to the highest bidder.

Ingrid O’Neil, a dealer of Olympic memorabilia in East Lansing, Mich., said gold medals have sold at auctions for between $4,000 and $5,000, but Lenzi’s medal possibly could sell for more because he is a recent winner.

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